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A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain - With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus (Paperback)
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A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain - With Descriptions of the Genera and Species, According to the System of the Celebrated Linnaeus (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture, Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1776 Excerpt: ...come t perfection the second year. Bark reddijb.
Berries when ripe, red. Taxus. Gerard. 1370. Park. 1412. Bauh. pin.
505. Bay's Sy;i. 441;. Yew Tree. On mountains. S. March--April.
Varieties. j. Leaves broad and shining. . Leaves variegated. It
grows belt in a moist loamy foil. On bogs or dry mountains it
languishes. It bears transplanting even when old. It is often
planted to make hedge-;, and as these hedges admit of clipping,
they form excellent skreens to keep off the cold winds from tender
plants--The wood is hard, smooth, and beautifully veined with red.
It is converted into bows, axle-trees, spoons, cups, cogs for mill
wheels and flood-gates for fish-ponds which hardly ever decay--The
berries are sweet, and viscid. Children often eat them in large
quantities without any inconvenience--The fri sli leaves are fatal
to the human specie: '. Cattle are sometimes killed by browsing
upon the branches that are cut oif and are half withered, but when
growing it is doubtful whether whether such an effect would follow.
Indeed from the Upsal experiments it appears that neither Cows nor
Horses will eat it in a recent state. Sheep and Goats eat it, but
the former are said to have been killed by browsing upon the bark.
Order XIV. Tips United. 391 PETTI GREE. 1139 Ruscus. B. Barren
Flowers. Empal. Cup with six leaves; upright, but expanding. Leaves
egg shaped, convex; the edges at the side reflected. Bloss. None.
Unless you consider every other leaf of the cup as such. Honey-cup
egg-shaped; as large as the cup; blown up; open at the rim;
upright. Chives, "threads none. Tips three; expanding; placed upon
the end of the honey-cup; united at the base. F. Ter tile Hewers.
Empal. Cup as above. Bloss. Petals as above. Honey-cup as above.
Point. Seedbud obl...
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