. British trees. Trees. BOX TREE. GENERAL HE Box is an evergreen free, and in its natural state reaches a height of about twenty feet. Its stems ramify somewhat abruptly, producing a rounded or flat top of dense leafage, and from top to base the tree is hung with slender branchlets, thickly covered with tiny dark leaves, which sparkle in the sunlight. Here and there a lighter piece of foliage floats out, with its bright leaves as though powdered against the sky ; or lying across a stem somewhat separate from its fellows, accentuates the grace of its line. Standing under this tent
. British trees. Trees. BOX TREE. GENERAL HE Box is an evergreen free, and in its natural state reaches a height of about twenty feet. Its stems ramify somewhat abruptly, producing a rounded or flat top of dense leafage, and from top to base the tree is hung with slender branchlets, thickly covered with tiny dark leaves, which sparkle in the sunlight. Here and there a lighter piece of foliage floats out, with its bright leaves as though powdered against the sky ; or lying across a stem somewhat separate from its fellows, accentuates the grace of its line. Standing under this tent of foliage one can better appreciate the fine patterns between the stems ipp P: due to the variety of their poise as they rise side by side, now curved, now twisted, into the deep shadow of the greenery overhead. Considering that the girth of the trunk rarely exceeds one and a half feet the bark is moderately rough, and marked with irregular incisions which run vertically. THE LEAF. The youngest pair of leaves, while still not fully developed, lie face to face in line with the shoot ; the next pair of leaves in the order of development, which are already beginning to spread outwards from the shoot, are set at right angles to the first pair, and partially enclose them at the base. The leaf-buds are small and pale-green, and the newly-opened leaves paler than those in maturity, and usually tinged with yellow; sometimes they have a blucish-rrreen bloom on the surface ot the blade. The old leaves. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cole, Rex Vicat, b. 1870; Kempe, Dorothy. London : Hutchinson
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