Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].

  • Thomas Whately
Date:
1777
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Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / ; | [ 26 ] | the afh and the arbele, the common arbor vita and the tamarifk. — | - There is a mean betwixt the two extremes, very nut, and the afhen-leaved maple. They may again be divided into thofe whofe branches begin from the ground, and thofe which fooot up in a fiem before their branches begin*. Trees which have fome, not much clear ftem, as feveral of the firs, belong to the former clafs; but a very fhort ftem will rank a fhrub, fuch as. the althaea, 1n the latter, Of thofe whofe branches begin from the ground, fome rife in a conical figure, as the larch, the cedar of Lebanon, and the holly: fome fell out in the middle of their growth, and dimi- nifo at both ends, as the Weymouth pine, the as the evergreen oak, the Virginian cedar, and Guelder rofe. There is ‘a great difference between one whale bafe is very large, and another whofe bafe is very fall, in proportion to its height: the cedar of branches from the bottom; butin fome, the lower branches ' they appear, ata certain period of their growth, to have fhot up into a ftem before their branches began,