Quercus, Or, Oaks: From the French of Michaux : Histoire Des Chênes de L'Amérique Septentrionale ; with Notes and an Appendix

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Graisberry and Campbell, printers, 1809 - Oak - 73 pages

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Page x - Traité des arbres et arbustes qui se cultivent en France en pleine terre...
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Page 57 - This species is found growing naturally in Italy and Spain. The leaves are smooth, and deeply sinuated, like winged leaves; some of the sinuses are obtuse, and others end in acute points; they have very short footstalks, the branches are covered with a purplish bark when young; the acorns are long and slender, the cups rough and a little prickly, sitting close to the branches.
Page 51 - ... the broad-leaved evergreen is the most common ; the leaves of this are entire, about two inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad, with a little down on their under sides, on short footstalks ; these leaves continue green through the winter till May, when they generally fall off just before the...
Page 51 - ... evergreen is the most common ; the leaves of this are entire, about two inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad, with a little down on their under sides, on short footstalks ; these leaves continue green through the winter till May, when they generally fall off just before the new leaves come out ; the acorns are very like those of the common oak.
Page xv - Editio quarta, post Reichardianam quinta, adjectis vegetabilibus hucusque cognitis, curante Carolo Ludovico WILLDENOW.
Page 51 - May, when they generally fall off just before the new leaves come out ; the acorns are very like those of the common oak. The exterior bark is the cork, which is taken from the tree every eight or ten years ; there is an interior bark which nourishes them, so that stripping off the outer bark is so far from injuring the trees, that it is necessary to continue them ; for when the bark is not taken off, they seldom last longer than fifty or sixty years...
Page 49 - ... four inches long, and one broad near the base, gradually lessening to a point. They are of a lucid green on the upper side, but whitish and downy on the under ; and are entire, standing on pretty long foot-stalks.
Page 51 - ... so that the stripping; off the outer coat is so far from injuring the trees, that it is of real service ; for when it is not taken off, they seldom last longer than fifty or sixty years in. health ; whereas trees which are barked every eight or ten years, will live 150, or more. The bark of a young tree is porous and good for little ; however, it is useful to take it off when the trees are twelve or fifseen years old ; for without this, it will never be good.

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