 | George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 656 páginas
...Below, the places of many former limbs are covered over by immense, gnarled and bossed protuberances. The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large opening...stand, an object of admiration, for centuries to come. Sp. 2. THE OVEECUP WHITE OAK. Q. macrocarpa. Michaux. Leaf and fruit figured in Michaux ; Sylva, I,... | |
 | 1847 - 688 páginas
...we have known it for nearly thirty years, and it seems now as it did when we first saw it.] — Ed. ances. The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large...point, in the case of a beautiful sassafras (Sassafras officin-ile Nees Vonescitbeck.) " The sassafras never grows to the size of a tree of the first class.... | |
 | 1847 - 588 páginas
...known it for nearly thirty years, and it seems now as it did when we first saw it.]— Ed. atices. The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large opening...point, in the case of a beautiful sassafras (Sassafras officinale Nees Vonesenbeck.) • " The sassafras never grows to the size of a tree of the first class.... | |
 | John S. Springer - 1851 - 282 páginas
...Below, the places of many former limbs are covered over by immense gnarled and bossed protuberances. The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large opening...stand an object of admiration for centuries to come." The Charter Oak, in Hartford, Connecticut, is said to measure at the ground thirty-six feet ; and in... | |
 | 1856 - 852 páginas
...Below, tho places of many former limbs are covered over by immense gnarled and bossed protuberances. The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large opening...stand an object of admiration for centuries' to come. The next largest oak tree to which the Commissioners refer, was found at Bolton, "nearly opposite Deacon... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1884 - 500 páginas
...commission which was charged with making a botanical survey of the State. The declaration is made that " It had probably passed its prime centuries before...voice was heard on the shores of Massachusetts Bay." Its circumference at the ground was given at twentyfive feet and nine inches, or two feet more than... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 500 páginas
...commission which was charged with making a botanical survey of the State. The declaration is made that " It had probably passed its prime centuries before...voice was heard on the shores of Massachusetts Bay." Its circumference at the ground was given at twentyfive feet and nine inches, or two feet more than... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1884 - 500 páginas
...commission which was charged with making a botanical survey of the State. The declaration is made that " It had probably passed its prime centuries before...voice was heard on the shores of Massachusetts Bay." Its circumference at the ground was given at twentyfive feet and nine inches, or two feet more than... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1902 - 536 páginas
...commission which was charged with making a botanical survey of the State. The declaration is made that "It had probably passed its prime centuries before...English voice was heard on the shores of Massachusetts Buy." Its circumference at the ground was given at twentyfive feet and nine inches, or two feet more... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1913 - 990 páginas
...Brighton boasts of the ruin of a white oak, nearly 26 feet in circumference, which is supposed to have passed its prime centuries before the first English voice was heard on our shores. The Charter Oak (qv) of Hartford, Conn., which was prostrated in the storms of August,... | |
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The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large opening on the southwest, through which boys and men may easily enter. It had, probably, passed its prime, centuries before the first English voice was heard on the shores of Massachusetts Bay. It is still... 