| Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 pages
...leaves are about one inch long, of a beautiful bright green, having a white stripe along the centre. The silvery hue of its bark, the beautiful contrast...most striking objects which can well be imagined. Inhabiting the colder regions of Northern India, and found among a flora that is more Siberian in its... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 686 pages
...The fruit is said to yield, at full growth, a purple pigment by expression. The silvery hue of the bark, the beautiful contrast of the leaves with the...striking objects which can well be imagined, and entitle the tree to precedence for ornamental purposes." Seeds were repeatedly sent to England, by Dr. Wallich,... | |
| William Barron (gardener.) - 1852 - 158 pages
...is said to yield at full growth a purple pigment, by expression of the juice. The silvery hue of the bark, the beautiful contrast of the leaves, with the...striking objects which can well be imagined, and entitle the tree to precedence for ornamental purposes." Although this splendid tree was raised in this country... | |
| William Barron - Elvaston Castle (Harrington) - 1852 - 154 pages
...is said to yield at full growth a purple pigment, by expression of the juice. The silvery hue of the bark, the beautiful contrast of the leaves, with the...striking objects which can well be imagined, and entitle the tree to precedence for ornamental purposes." Although this splendid tree was raised in this country... | |
| Josiah Hoopes - Conifers - 1868 - 466 pages
...fruit is said to yield, at full growth, a purple pigment by expression. The silvery hue of the bark and the beautiful contrast of the leaves with the rich...striking objects which can well be imagined, and entitle the tree to precedence for ornamental purposes." The timber of A. Webbiana, according to some writers,... | |
| Forests and forestry - 1885 - 720 pages
...and in Lambert's " Genus Pinus " occurs the following passage from his pen, as to its beauty : — " The silvery hue of its bark, the beautiful contrast...produce, in combination, one of the most striking objects that can well be imagined. " Major Madden, in his valuable paper on Himalayan Conifers, reprinted in... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1845 - 290 pages
...odour, which is breathed from the tree while growing, greatly exceeds that of any other yet known. The silvery hue of its bark, the beautiful contrast of the leaves with the rich purple of the cones, glittering with globules of transparent resin, produce in combination, one of the most striking... | |
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