Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION IV. DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. The History and Description of all the finest hardy Deciduous Trees. Remarks O* Tsrtr xr/rcrs In Landscape Oardeninq, Individually And In Composition. Theii Cultivation, etc . The Oak. The Elm. The Ash. The Linden. The Beech. The Poplar. The Horse-chestnut The Birch. The Alder. The Maple. The Locust. The Threc-thomed Acacia. The Judas-tree. The Chestnut. The Osage Orange. The Mulberry. The Paper Mulberry. The Sweet Gum. The Wainut The Hickory The Mountain Ash. The Ailantus. The Kentucky Coffee. Tho Willow. The Sassafras. The Catalpa. The Peraimon. The Pepperidge. The Thorn. The Magnolia. The Tulip. The Dogwood. The Salisburia. The Paulonia. The Vlnjilla The Cypress. The Larch, etc. 0 gloriosu spiriti de gli boschi, 0 Eco, o antri foschi, o chiare linfe, O faretrate ninfe, o agresti Pani, O Satin e Silvani, o Fauni e Driadi, Naiadi ed Amadriadi, o Semidee Oreadi e Napee.-- Sannazzaro "O spirits of the woods, Echoes and solitudes, and lakes of light; O quivered virgins bright, Pan's rustical Satyrs and sylvans all, dryads and ye That up the mountains be; and ye beneath In meadow or in flowery heath." The Oak. Quercus. Nat. Ord. Corylacea?. Lin. Syt. Moncecia, Polyandria. DEGREESs*Bg> H E Arcadians believed the oak to have been the first created of all trees; and when we consider its great and surpassing utility and beauty, we are fully disposed So concede it the first rank among the denizens of the forest. Springing up with a noble trunk, and stretching out its broad limbs over the soil, "These monarchs of the wood, Dark, gnarled, centennial oaks," seem proudly to bid defiance to time; and while generations of man appear and disappear, they withstand the storms of a thousand winters, and seem only...
