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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. 1903 Excerpt: ... immediate neighborhood of the South Downs of Sussex. In these hedges, which fence the fields that foot the Downs, the variety of their constituent shrubs seems extraordinary, especially to those whose lives are led among the lines of hawthorn hedges in "the Shires"--for so your true-born son of Sussex calls all counties north of the Surrey hills. In a few hundred yards of hedgerow hereabout seven or eight different kinds of shrub may readily be found, while the number might be increased to ten or more if the distance were extended to a mile. One of the most beautiful of these is the "traveller's joy," whose trailing vine-like stem bears masses of foliage, in which gleam the starry cream-colored flowers, to be succeeded by the curious fluffy seed-pods. When it has once been seen growing in all its wild luxuriance of foliage, flower, and seed, there remains no question of the fitness or the meaning of its name, for under the shade and shelter of such thick umbrage the traveller finds complete harborage from a too torrid sun or from tempestuous rain. The spindle tree is another characteristic shrub of these hedges, and one not without its uses, as the charcoal made from its wood is peculiarly valuable to artists; while in the days of the spinning-wheel it was equally sought after for the making of spindles; and hence its name. In the old "spinning books" to be found in ancient parish chests items of expenditure for spindles are often met with; such as, in 17S6, in one I have seen, "Item. pd. for 1 doz. of spindles Is." This shrub bears smooth pale green lanceolate leaves, of a somewhat wavy surface; and its small star-shaped, greenish flowers in nowise give promise of the prettiness of its fruit, whose five pink segment...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130130904
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 482
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130130908
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 853 gr

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