 | Charles Mason Hovey - Botany - 1852 - 596 pages
...specimen. About half a mile distant from where I was, I observed a noble looking Fir tree, about 60 feet in height, having a stem as straight as the Norfolk...sometimes seen in theatres and public halls in Europe." The gardeners at Shanghae seem to set an example of skill which some of our own people would do well... | |
 | Country life - 1852 - 608 pages
...a stem as straight as the Norfolk Island Pine, and weeping branches like the Willow of St. Ilelena. Its branches grew at first at right angles to the...sometimes seen in theatres and public halls in Europe." The gardeners at Shanghac seem to set an example of skill which some of our own people would do well... | |
 | Horticulture - 1853 - 694 pages
...graceful form. It reminded me of some of those large and gorgeous chandeliers sometimes seen in the theatres and public halls in Europe. What could it...more handsome and ornamental than them all. I walked — no, to tell the plain truth, I ran — up to the place where it grew, much to the surprise of my... | |
 | Floriculture - 1854 - 356 pages
...graceful form. It reminded me of some of those large and gorgeous chandeliers sometimes seen in the theatres and public halls in Europe. What could it...was more handsome and ornamental than them all. I walked—no, to tell the plain truth, I ran—up to the place where it grew, much to the surprise of... | |
 | Josiah Hoopes - Conifers - 1868 - 466 pages
...first specimen. About half a mile distant from where I was, I observed a noblelooking Fir tree about'60 feet in height, having a stem as straight as the Norfolk...sometimes seen in theatres and public halls in Europe." ll. C. Goveniana, Gordon. — Another of Hartweg's discoveries in Northern California. He found this... | |
 | Edward Balfour - Forests and forestry - 1870 - 404 pages
...slender hung down perpendicularly, and gave the whole tree a weeping and graceful form." It reminded him of some of those large and gorgeous chandeliers, sometimes seen in theatres and public halls in Europe. Its stem was perfectly straight, like Cryptomeria, and its leaves were formed like those of the well... | |
 | Thomas Augustus Charles Firminger - Gardening - 1874 - 668 pages
...stem as straight as that of a Norfolk Island Pine, and weeping branches like the Willow of St. Helena. It reminded me of some of those large and gorgeous...chandeliers sometimes seen in theatres and public halls in Europe."1 Sir J. Paxton further observes : — " This is probably the most interesting coniferous plant... | |
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I observed a noblelooking fir-tree, about sixty feet in height, having a stem as straight as the Norfolk Island pine, and weeping branches like the willow of St. Helena. Its branches grew at first at right angles to the main stem, then described a graceful... 