Quercus, Or, Oaks: From the French of Michaux : Histoire Des Chênes de L'Amérique Septentrionale ; with Notes and an Appendix |
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... timber is employed the most , generally and usefully - it serves for building ships , houses , instruments for the various pur- poses of agriculture , & c .-- it affords sub- stances stances used in medicine , its bark is al- most XX.
... timber is employed the most , generally and usefully - it serves for building ships , houses , instruments for the various pur- poses of agriculture , & c .-- it affords sub- stances stances used in medicine , its bark is al- most XX.
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... timber . In America it is preferred to all others , for the building of ships and houses ; in fact , it answers for all economical purposes . It affords excellent timber for making hogsheads , for holding spiri- tuous liquors ; whereas ...
... timber . In America it is preferred to all others , for the building of ships and houses ; in fact , it answers for all economical purposes . It affords excellent timber for making hogsheads , for holding spiri- tuous liquors ; whereas ...
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... timber is of great use . Catesby , 1. c . Michaux jun . states that this oak , with the Magnolia gran- diflora , Nyssa biflora , & c . grow only on the river swamps , in the Pine Barrens or Swamps , in the Carolinas and Georgia , the ...
... timber is of great use . Catesby , 1. c . Michaux jun . states that this oak , with the Magnolia gran- diflora , Nyssa biflora , & c . grow only on the river swamps , in the Pine Barrens or Swamps , in the Carolinas and Georgia , the ...
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... timber is of an excellent quality , and more esteemed than that of any other species of oak which grows in North America . In the south of the United States , it is employed with the greatest advan- tage for building ships , which last ...
... timber is of an excellent quality , and more esteemed than that of any other species of oak which grows in North America . In the south of the United States , it is employed with the greatest advan- tage for building ships , which last ...
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... timber is not durable , therefore of little use except for fences . In mild winters all the varieties retain most of their leaves . The acorns are small and bitter , and rejected by the hogs where others are to be found . Catesby , 1. c ...
... timber is not durable , therefore of little use except for fences . In mild winters all the varieties retain most of their leaves . The acorns are small and bitter , and rejected by the hogs where others are to be found . Catesby , 1. c ...
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Abbot's Insects acorns acutis alba Allegany mountains America American oaks apice callosis aquatica ARBORETUM bark basi attenuatis black oak branches calyce calyce fructus calycibus fructus CALYX Carolina and Georgia Catesby Catesby's Cerris Chéne Chesnut Oak coccinea colour common oak COUNTRY cupula deciduis dentibus Desfontaines dilatatis downy underneath evergreen feet Female flowers feuilles Florida folia Foliis oblongis foliis perennantibus footstalks fructibus FRUCTIFICATION fruit Georgia HEIGHT Hist HORTUS GLASNEVINENSIS Ilex integerrimis lanceolatis leaves Linnæus lobatis lobes lobis Male flowers maritima Michaux mucronatis nuce nuce subrotunda oak grows oblong-oval OBSERVATIONS obtuse ovata palustris peduncle Pensylvania petiolatis planting profunde pumila Quercitron Quercus coccifera Quercus foliis QUERCUS ILEX QUERCUS PHELLOS QUERCUS PRINUS QUERCUS ROBUR red oak Robur rubra sessile smooth spec species of oak squamis stamina subtus pubescentibus subtus tomentosis timber tinctoria tion trees triloba utrinque variety virens Virginia Wangenheim white oak Willd Willdenow willow oak wood
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Page x - Traité des arbres et arbustes qui se cultivent en France en pleine terre...
Page xiii - La botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde, ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts.
Page x - The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, including their Systematic Characters, the Particulars of their several Metamorphoses, and the Plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith, MD, FRS...
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.