 | William Barron (gardener.) - 1852 - 158 pages
...Willow. The branches grow at first horizontally, then describe a graceful curve upwards, and droop again at the points. From these main branches others,...and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. The VARIE GATED WHITE CEDAR (Cwpressus thyoides variegata) is a valuable plant, but little known to... | |
 | William Barron - Elvaston Castle (Harrington) - 1852 - 154 pages
...Willow. The branches grow* at first horizontally, then describe a graceful curve upwards, and droop again at the points. From these main branches others,...and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. The VABIEGATED WHITE CEDAR (Cwpressus thyoides variegatd) is a valuable plant, but little known to... | |
 | John Standish (Nurseryman.), Charles Noble - 1852 - 218 pages
...The branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, drooping again at the points. From these main branches...ground, and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful character." CUPRESSUS GOVENIANA.— Gordon. (Gowen's Cypresa) A bush ten or twelve feet high on its... | |
 | Standish and Noble - 1852 - 216 pages
...The branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, drooping again at the points. From these main branches...ground, and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful character." CUPRESSUS GOVENIANA.—Gordon. (Gowen's Cypress.) A bush ten or twelve feet high on its... | |
 | England - 1853 - 420 pages
...branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, and droop again at the points. From these main branches, others,...and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. It is also very symmetrical, and reminds one of a large and gorgeous chandelier. In regard to its effect... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, and droop again at the points. From these main branches, others,...and give the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. It is also very symmetrical, and reminds one of a large and gorgeous chandelier. In regard to its effect... | |
 | James Veitch & Sons - Conifers - 1881 - 404 pages
...which lengthen as the tree arrives at maturity, when they become pendulous at their extremities, and from these main branches, others long and slender, hang down towards the ground, giving the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. * Habitat. — China, the north-east provinces,... | |
 | Veitch James and sons - Conifers - 1881 - 396 pages
...which lengthen as the tree arrives at maturity, when they become pendulous at their extremities, and from these main branches, others long and slender, hang down towards the ground, giving the whole tree a weeping and graceful form. * Habitat. — China, the north-east provinces,... | |
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a noble-looking fir tree, about sixty feet high, with a stem as straight as the Norfolk Island Pine, and pendulous branches like the weeping willow. The branches grow at first horizontally with the main stem, then describe a graceful curve upwards, drooping... 