Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-loverCharles Scribner's Sons, 1903 - 521 Seiten |
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acuminate at apex acute at apex ALDER anthers Autumnal tints axils Azalea Barberry beautiful beneath berries BLACKBERRY bloom blossoms Blueberry borne bracts branches brown bush calyx Calyx.-Tube carpels catkins clusters color Cornus corolla Corolla.-Petals corymbs CROWBERRY cultivation cymes dark green densely dioecious Dogwood downy drupe DWARF erect evergreen exserted feet high filaments five five-lobed five-toothed Flowering Spray Flowers.-April Flowers.-June Flowers.-May foliage Forsythia Fruiting Spray full grown gardens glabrous glandular globose hairy HIGH-BUSH inch in diameter JOHN'S-WORT leaf leaflets leafy leaves lobes Lonicera Magnolia midvein mountains native oblong obovate one-half oval Ovary ovate pale green paler panicles pedicels petals Petioles Petioles short pink pinnately pinnately veined Pistil plant prickles pubescent purple racemes Ranges reddish Rhus ROSE rounded at base Rubus scarlet sepals serrate sessile shining shrub slender slightly smooth species Spiræa stamens stems stigma style Sumach swamps terminal twigs two-celled Viburnum wedge-shaped at base WILLOW winter yellow
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Seite 362 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Seite 180 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Seite 442 - Virginia," published in 1705, states that "at the mouth of their rivers, and all along upon the sea and bay, and near many of their creeks and swamps, grows the myrtle, bearing a berry, of which they make a hard brittle wax, of a curious green color, which by refining becomes almost transparent. Of this they make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell, like that of a tallow candle; but, instead...
Seite 114 - The hope, in dreams, of a happier hour That alights on misery's brow, Springs out of the silvery almond -flower, That blooms on a leafless bough.
Seite v - The shrubs described in this volume are those which find their most congenial home in the region extending from the Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi river, and from Canada to the northern boundaries of our Southern states; together with those imported shrubs which have so long adorned our yards and gardens that we have almost forgotten their foreign origin.
Seite 382 - This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of this plant.
Seite 394 - God wills it : here our rest shall be, Our years of wandering o'er, For us the Mayflower of the sea Shall spread her sails no more." O sacred flowers of faith and hope, As sweetly now as then Ye bloom on many a birchen slope, In many a pine-dark glen.
Seite 442 - ... to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell, like that of a tallow candle; but, instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in the room; insomuch that nice people often put them out on purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The melting of these berries is said to have been first found out by a surgeon in New England, who performed wonderful things...
Seite 460 - These are so sensitive, that, if you pluck them at almost any time during the winter, a few days' sunshine will make them open in a vase of water, and thus they eagerly yield to every moment of April warmth. The blossom of the birch is more delicate, that of the willow more showy, but the alders come first. They cluster and dance everywhere upon the bare boughs above the watercourses ; the blackness of the buds is softened into rich brown and yellow ; and as this graceful creature thus comes waving...
Seite 342 - Its cultivation began to attract attention about 1840, although the difficulties connected with the growing of the new crop did not begin to clear away until about 1850. Cape Cod was the first cranberrygrowing region, which was soon followed by New Jers'ey, and later by Wisconsin and other regions. The varieties now known are over a hundred, all having been picked up in bogs, and the annual product from tame...