Pine Plantations on the Sand-wastes of FranceOliver & Boyd, 1878 - 172 Seiten |
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... attain no considerable elevation . The sand deposited by the wind on the sum- mit of the hill is always in a state of precarious equilibrium . It has a constant tendency to be precipitated down the other side , and the higher the summit ...
... attain no considerable elevation . The sand deposited by the wind on the sum- mit of the hill is always in a state of precarious equilibrium . It has a constant tendency to be precipitated down the other side , and the higher the summit ...
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... attain a certain temperature . " The heat in dilating them , causing them to bend backward , separates them one from another , and in the new position thus taken they offer an easy exit to the winged seed which they had previously held ...
... attain a certain temperature . " The heat in dilating them , causing them to bend backward , separates them one from another , and in the new position thus taken they offer an easy exit to the winged seed which they had previously held ...
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... attain to great age , and they never furnish aught but a small quantity of seed . In the second place a repeuplement , when it does make its appearance , soon perishes under a dense covering of timber trees , which deprives it of air ...
... attain to great age , and they never furnish aught but a small quantity of seed . In the second place a repeuplement , when it does make its appearance , soon perishes under a dense covering of timber trees , which deprives it of air ...
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... attain maturity should be chosen . The maritime pine , which in favourable circum- stances attains the age of eighty years , rarely lasts more than twenty- five in Sologne . After this age the bark is covered with lichens , the growth ...
... attain maturity should be chosen . The maritime pine , which in favourable circum- stances attains the age of eighty years , rarely lasts more than twenty- five in Sologne . After this age the bark is covered with lichens , the growth ...
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... attain your end by improv- ing the fertility , and at the same time you produce the amelioration by a money return . It is only in the case of very good soil that time is here worth more than money . " Permanent or definite boisement ...
... attain your end by improv- ing the fertility , and at the same time you produce the amelioration by a money return . It is only in the case of very good soil that time is here worth more than money . " Permanent or definite boisement ...
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Pine Plantations on the Sand-Wastes of France (Classic Reprint) John Croumbie Brown Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 22 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery; Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above, the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
Seite 7 - I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze breeds, Is this; an uninhabited seaside, Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, Abandons; and no other object breaks The waste, but one dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired, and the tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon,...
Seite 22 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Seite 17 - ... to be of any remarkable size. Their whole appearance conveys to you the idea of hoary age in the vegetable world of creation; and on visiting Wistman's Wood, it is impossible to do other than think of those " groves in stony places" so often mentioned in Scripture, as being dedicated to Baal and Ashtaroth.
Seite 16 - ... arranged as to resemble the ruins of ancient castles. Innumerable masses of stone, more or less rounded and smoothed, lie scattered over the general surface.
Seite 21 - ... alders ; between the pale-green reeds ; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around...
Seite 3 - Antwerp, saw, not long since, on the opposite side of the Schelde only a vast desert plain ; now he sees a forest, the limits of which are confounded with the horizon. Let him enter within its shade. The supposed forest is but a system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age.
Seite 21 - ... dark green alders, and pale green reeds, stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedgebird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around : while high overhead hung motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
Seite 17 - The roaring of these torrents after heavy rains, and when the wind favours its transmission, is sublime to a degree inconceivable by those who have never heard their impressive music in a wild and solitary district.
Seite 3 - To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.