. 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. 448 HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. When young, the hawthorn springs up very rapidly; a shoot of a single year being sufficient for a walking-stick. It thus, if well pruned and kept down, very quickly grows into a thick and intricately woven hedge. When it arrives at the height of a tree, however, it makes wood very slowly, and lives to a
. 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. 448 HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. When young, the hawthorn springs up very rapidly; a shoot of a single year being sufficient for a walking-stick. It thus, if well pruned and kept down, very quickly grows into a thick and intricately woven hedge. When it arrives at the height of a tree, however, it makes wood very slowly, and lives to a great age. The trunk of an old ha\Ythorn has a gnarled, rough, and very picturesque effect, supporting its crown of branches, white with innumerable blossoms. Sometimes these trunks split into two or more divisions, and thus in time gradually becoming covered over with an extension of the bark, fippear as distinct stems. The timber of the hawthorn is extremely hard and durable, and fit for many purposes of utility. There are several distinct species, and many varieties of the hawthorn, all natives of Europe and America. The double-flowering is one of the most ornamental for shrubberies. The fruit of the sweet-scented, odoratissima, is reckoned very agreeable; and that of the azarole is much esteemed in the south of Europe: in this country it rarely arrives at perfection. CHAP. XLIII. MAHOGANY, LTGNUMVITBJ!, TEAK, MAGNOLIA, TULIP TREE, &C. JIahooany Tkee (swietinea mahogani). Na- tural family meliacece; decandria, monogynia, of. i^ST Mahogany Tree. Linnoeus. This is a very large and graceful tree, nith numerous spreading branches. The trunk is of great size, covered with a rough, scaly, brown bark, which on the younger branches is of a gray colour. The leaves are compound; the leaflets are pinnated, in three or four, rarely five pairs, without any odd one at the top. They are en- tire, ovately lance-shaped, oblique, reclining, smooth, and about two inches and a half long. T
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