The Forest Trees of BritainSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1892 - 431 pages |
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abundant acorns afforded Alder ancient appearance Asia attains autumn Barberry bark bear beautiful Beech berries Birch Black Poplar blossoms botanists boughs branches Britain buds called catkins Cedar character Cherry colour common cultivated decay downy durable early England Europe Evelyn feet flowers foliage forest France frequently fruit gardens green ground grow growth Hawthorn Hazel hedges height Holly Hornbeam Horse Chestnut inches inner bark insects Julius Cæsar kind Larch leaf leaves Loudon mentioned Mountain Ash native natural numerous nuts ornamental picturesque Pine planted Pliny Poplar produced purpose rarely remarkable resembling resin ripe Romans roots says scarcely Scotland season seed-vessels seeds shade shrub side Silver Fir situations smooth soil sometimes species spring Spruce Fir stamens stem Stone Pine Sycamore timber trunk twigs variety White Poplar wild Willow winter wood Wych Elm yellow young shoots young trees
Popular passages
Page 303 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 72 - I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Page 15 - There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise ; whereon is found a certain spume or froth, that in time breedeth to certaine shells, in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour...
Page 58 - In a farm-yard near the middle of this village stands, at this day, a row of pollardashes, which, by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that, in former times, they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Page 344 - Then youthful box, which now hath grace Your houses to renew, Grown old, surrender must his place Unto the crisped yew. When yew is out, then birch comes in, And many flowers beside, Both of a fresh and fragrant kin, To honour Whitsuntide. Green rushes then, and sweetest bents, With cooler oaken boughs, Come in for comely ornaments, To re-adorn the house.
Page 95 - When first the tender blades of grass appear, And buds, that yet the blast of Eurus fear, Stand at the door of life, and doubt to clothe the year...
Page 60 - ... with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus...
Page 302 - And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Page 59 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 177 - This is the tree which graces the landscapes of Salvator Rosa. In the mountains of Calabria, where Salvator painted, the chestnut flourished. There he studied it in all its forms, breaking and disposing it in a thousand beautiful shapes, as the exigencies of his composition required.