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The North American Sylva, Or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia; Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts and Their Introduction Into Commerce: To Which Is Added Volume 2

The North American Sylva, Or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia; Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts and Their Introduction Into Commerce: To Which Is Added Volume 2


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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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...east of the Mountains. The foliage of the Locust is light and agreeable to the eye. Each leaf is composed of opposite leaflets, 8, 10, 12, and sometimes more, in number, surmounted by an odd one. The leaflets are nearly sessile, oval, thin, of a fine texture, and of so smooth a surface that the dust is blown off from them as it alights. These leaves are rarely injured by insects. The flowers are disposed in numerous pendulous bunches: they are perfectly white, and diffuse the most delicious odour. Their fine effect, heightened by the fresh tint of the light green foliage, renders the Locust one of the most admired in Europe among ornamental trees. In passing through Harrisburg, on the 4th of June, 1808, I saw the Locust in full bloom: it was in flower at the same season of the year 1812, at Paris, in the latitude of 48 50'. To the flower succeeds a narrow, flat pod, about 3 inches long, containing 5 or 6 small seeds, which are commonly brown, and sometimes black. On the trunk and large limbs of the old Locust, the bark is very thick and deeply furrowed. The young tree, till it attains the diameter of 2 or 3 inches, is armed with formidable thorns, which disappear in its maturer age. The wood, which is commonly of a greenish yellow colour, marked with brown veins, is hard, compact, and susceptible of a bright polish; it has a good deal of strength, with but little elasticity. Its principal value in the United States, where the greater part of the houses and of the fences of cultivated grounds are of wood, is its power of resisting decay longer than almost any other species of wood. Though the Locust is multiplied east of the Mountains, in the upper part of Virginia and of the two Carolinas, it forms a much smaller proportion of the forests...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234264116
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 109 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1234264110
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: To Which Is Added Volume 2
  • Width: 189 mm


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