. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Fig. 1279. shows the commencement of the English mode of basket-making;in which n re|)rcsents the six rods that are to form the bottom of the bask
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Fig. 1279. shows the commencement of the English mode of basket-making;in which n re|)rcsents the six rods that are to form the bottom of the basket, 3 I) 2 1474 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. laid down crossing each other at right angles; and b the second stage, inwhich the rods are made fast by the commencement of the weaving process. Figs. 1280. and 1281. show the progress of weaving the bottom ; the latterbeing what ultimately becomes the under side, and the former the upperside. 1280.
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