. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE LIME TREE. 4.« nnd rather handsome, but it soon decays. Birch makes very good charcoal. The weeping birch, b. pmdtda, is the most graceful tree of the family. It grows both in mountainous situations and bogs, fi-om Lapland to the subalpine parts of Italy and Asia. The mahogany birch, b. lenta, or cherry birch of Canada, abounds in the m
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE LIME TREE. 4.« nnd rather handsome, but it soon decays. Birch makes very good charcoal. The weeping birch, b. pmdtda, is the most graceful tree of the family. It grows both in mountainous situations and bogs, fi-om Lapland to the subalpine parts of Italy and Asia. The mahogany birch, b. lenta, or cherry birch of Canada, abounds in the middle states of Penn- sylvania, New York, and the Jerseys; but dis- appears altogether in the higher latitudes of the northern states. It is deemed a very fit tree for planting in the valleys of the mountainous dis- tricts of Britain. Its growth is rapid, and the timber is close-grained; beautifully variegated, and well adapted for cabinet work. The leaves, which appear early in spring, possess a peculiar fragrance, which they retain after being dried in a stove, affording by infusion an agreeable di- luent, superior to some of the common teas of commerce. The white bark of the birch con- trasts well with the sombre trunks of other trees, and, indeed, all the species are highly ornamen- tal and graceful in gardens and shrubberies. The Alder Calmis glvtinosa), belongs to the same natural family and Linnsean order as the. The Alder. birch; it is not so handsome a tree, however, as the birch, and the timber is not applicable to so many useful purposes. The alder is a native of almost every part of Europe. It thrives best in marshy situations, and by the margins of lakes and rivers, where it is generally a large shrub rather than a tree. As its shade rather improves than injures the gi-ass, coppices of it afford good wintering for the out-door stock on mountain grazings. The bark of the alder contains a good deal of tannin; and the young shoots dye a yellow or cinnamon colour, the
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