Paxton's Flower Garden, Volumen3Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1884 - 179 páginas |
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acuminate acute alias anthers appearance base beautiful Belongs Billbergia blossoms blunt Botanical Magazine bracts branches bright brown calyx Cattleya colour column coriaceous corolla crimson cultivation distinct downy epiphyte erect evergreen feet high filaments fleshy flowers foliage foliis four Gardener's Chronicle genus glabrous glaucous GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL green greenhouse growing hairy half an inch handsome hardy herbaceous Hooker Horticultural Society hothouse inch broad inch in diameter Klotzsch labello labellum lacinia lanceolate leaves Lindley linear lobes Loddiges margin narrow Native nearly numerous oblong obovate obtuse Orchids ovary ovate pale panicles PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN pedicels peduncles Perianth petals petiole plant PLATE pseudobulbs purple racemes recurved Reichenbach roundish scape seeds segments sepals sepals and petals sessile short shorter shrub side slender smooth species Specific Character specimens spots spreading spur stalk Stamens staminodes stem stigma stove subulate terete tree tube upper Veitch white flowers yellow
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Página 147 - ... some much larger on the main, and larger isles ; and, if appearances did not deceive us, we can assert it. If I except New Zealand, I, at this time, knew of no island in the South Pacific Ocean, where a ship could supply herself with a mast or a yard, were she ever so much distressed for want of one.
Página 147 - ... as two men could fathom, and exceedingly straight and tall. This pine is a sort between that which grows in New Zealand, and that in New Caledonia; the foliage differing something from both, and the wood not so heavy as the former, nor so light and close-grained as the latter.
Página 147 - ... difference, that the branches of these are much smaller and shorter; so that the knots become nothing when the tree is wrought for use. I took notice, that the largest of them had the smallest and shortest branches, and were crowned, as it were, at the top, by a spreading branch like a bush. This was what led some on board into the extravagant notion of their being basaltes: Indeed no one could think of finding such trees here.
Página 147 - ... and forecastle saw breakers under the lee-bow, which we escaped by quickly tacking the ship. I was now almost tired of a coast which I could no longer explore but at the risk of losing the ship and ruining the whole voyage. I was, however, determined not to leave it till...
Página 147 - ... and lying about the roots. These trees shoot out their branches like all other pines, with this difference, that the branches of these are much smaller and shorter ; so that the knots become nothing when the tree is wrought for use. I took notice that the largest of them had the smallest and shortest branches, and were crowned as it were at the top by a spreading branch like a bush ' (probably occasioned by their having been formerly densely crowded, and the tallest having most liberty at the...
Página 147 - ... well for a foremast to the Resolution, had one been wanting. Since trees of this size are to be found on so small a spot, it is reasonable to expect to find some much larger on the main, and larger isles, and, if appearances did not deceive us, we can assert it. If I except New Zealand, I, at this time, knew of no island in the South Pacific Ocean, where a ship could supply herself with a mast or a yard, were she ever so much distressed for want of one.
Página 147 - E. About noon, having got a breeze from the NE, we stood to SSE, and as we drew towards Cape Coronation, saw in a valley to the south of it, a vast number of those elevated objects before-mentioned; and some low land under the foreland was wholly covered with them. We could not agree in our opinions of what they were. I supposed them to be a singular sort of trees, being too numerous to resemble any thing else; and a great deal of smoke kept rising all the day from amongst those near the cape.
Página 147 - ... lay without this last direction, distant from us four or five miles ; some others lay between us and the shore, and to the east, where they seemed to be connected by reefs, in which appeared some openings from space to space. The country was mountainous, and had much the same aspect as about Balade. On one of the •western small isles was an elevation like a tower; and over a low neck of land within the isle were seen many other elevations, resembling the masts of a fleet of ships. Next day...