| 单词 | hornbeam |
| 例句 | But they bleated and wailed as I grabbed a coil of rope and ran for the door and across the windy yard to where Mr. Kendall lay on his belly beneath the hornbeam tree. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The water was cold and clean and wonderful, and I felt much better as I stood in the warm wind and thought about the treasure I’d rescued from the hornbeam tree. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z So Osh and I sat outside, at the trestle table in the shade of her hornbeam tree, while Miss Maggie made our supper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Planted along the grass at the road’s edge were two lines of hornbeam trees, odd-looking things with perfectly symmetrical close-leafed crowns, more like children’s drawings than like real trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the hornbeam trees a little way ahead of them; there were houses, trees, roads, and in the distance the towers and spires of the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She padded across the road and toward the bushes just beyond the hornbeam trees, and there she stopped. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good-bye,” she said, and lingered on the pavement till the car had turned the corner and gone out of sight before she set off toward the hornbeam trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Osh said, “You did the right thing,” and we ran to the window looking out on the yard and the hornbeam tree. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But eventually they reached the ring road, and the hornbeam trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was describing exactly what he himself had found under the hornbeam trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hornbeam wand let off a blast like a gun, and a number of small, twittering birds flew out of the end and through the open window into the watery sunlight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a row along the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked away with Will, back along the grass under the hornbeam trees, and turned at the first corner they came to. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge, and patted the air once more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let him. He’s a madman. Treasure in a hornbeam tree? They’ll laugh. And if they come looking, they won’t find a thing.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Lots of little chances for me, too,” he began, thinking of the cat under the hornbeam trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “There,” I said, pointing, and he followed me to the table under the hornbeam tree. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He tried to put it out of his mind, and they set off together, crossing at the traffic lights and casting just one glance back at the window under the hornbeam trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The iconic abbey was airy and calm, the long aisle leading to the altar lined with maple and hornbeam trees as light streamed in through the high arched windows. History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z Later, I consider the European hornbeam tree before me, whose bare branches jut out conically, and an Asian dogwood tree, whose bark reddens in the winter. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But there was rapid, smooth healing in such trees as hornbeam and Southern magnolia. The cicadas are gone, but they left their mark on trees. Here’s what you can do. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Deciduous plants are effective, too: Upright hornbeams, hophornbeams, amelanchiers and even hydrangeas do the job. The odd tale of Britain’s wall — a hedge — across a swath of India 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z An 18th-century Provencal town fountain is surrounded by a double ring of hornbeam trees. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The American hornbeam is also one of the tree species that prefers to be transplanted in the spring rather than the fall, hence the timing. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “This was a war zone,” said Kavalier, as he led me into the Ellipse, famous for its aerial hedge of clipped hornbeam and central fountain. The vaunted garden at Dumbarton Oaks reopens after some major surgery 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z When the old trees were removed, Fleisher said, the roots were poorly developed for such mature hornbeams. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The American hornbeam is an elegant small tree with spreading branches, beechlike leaves and sinewy bark but is overlooked in favor of the more formal, upright European version. Planning your 2020 garden? You’ll want to check out the year’s Gold Medal Plants. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z These include the serviceberry, sweetbay and cucumber magnolias, Japanese apricot, American hornbeam, Persian parrotia and red buckeye. D.C. has become a leader in a movement to plant more diverse city trees 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Credit the recent royal wedding and the couple’s decision to line the aisle in Westminster Abbey with English field maples and hornbeams. Field Notes: Requesting the Royal Treatment 2011-05-06T17:36:16Z The aerial hedge, which uses European hornbeams, was modeled after De Keyser’s father’s garden. Home & Design: For Top Chef Bart Vandaele, a home is for enjoying — with lots of friends Lindsey Milstein, president of the conservancy, sets aside a line of wire fence to show me the young native trees now taking hold here, tulip trees, American hornbeams and halesias among them. The slow rebirth of Dumbarton Oaks Park 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z A selection of trees, including honey locust, English oak and hornbeam, will now be planted along South Quay. Great Yarmouth: Authority bans planting of 'hazardous' fruit trees 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Oaks, hornbeams, limes, sycamore and other saplings are already in the ground, with the first phase of planting expected to be finished this month. Thousand-year-old oaks seed experimental 'super forest' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Take the Hornbeam Trail, interspersed with the American hornbeam, a distinctive tree also called the musclewood — so named because the bark resembles rippling muscles. Beyond Assateague: The wonders of Maryland’s lesser-known state parks 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Hardman wanders through the wood and finds a small hornbeam, which is twisting up towards the light, struggling to make its way in the shade of a mature oak. Can nature really heal us? 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z The battle to save the last remaining oak and hornbeam trees reflects the young activist’s entwined fights to protect the natural world from human exploitation and to halt carbon emissions. Greta Thunberg takes climate fight to Germany’s threatened Hambach Forest 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z London-based florist Ms Craddock also created the floral displays at the chapel, which was filled with white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves, branches of beech, birch and hornbeam. Royal wedding: Meghan's dress in detail 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The church will be filled with beech, birch and hornbeam, as well as wild flowers, white roses, peonies and foxgloves. Harry and Meghan: fusing the traditional and the contemporary 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Composed primarily of oaks and hornbeams, the forest is the only one like it in this part of Europe, Zobel says. Ancient Forest Home of Squatter Communities Is Doomed by Coal 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The discovery, at the base of a hornbeam tree in a hotel roof garden near the Eiffel Tower, is thought to be a first for the city. 'Remarkable' truffle discovery in Paris 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Ecologists don’t see the need to fight the increase of hornbeam. Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Today, a semi-wild population roams Białowieża Forest, near the Poland–Belarus border, where they slip between hornbeams and mighty oaks, their curly coats and horns lending an aura of the Pleistocene to the ancient forest. Mysterious origin of European bison revealed using DNA and cave art 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z A rectangle of hornbeam hedge circumscribes the area, its shape echoed by the central pergola. The Counterintuitive Way to Create a Gorgeous Garden 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z There, the star ingredients are a sunken reflecting pool, a dozen mature honey locust and Kwanzan cherry trees, and a hornbeam hedge that doubles “as an outdoor wall,” he said. The How-on-Earth Garden 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z In that first missive, Nico complimented me heartily on my “hornbeam,” which for some reason the software was giving him as a synonym for “charm.” Love in translation 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Below the canopy, hornbeam and linden trees are turning golden. Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z A single candle fills the surrounding air with visions of hornbeam hedges and ancient statues, conjuring up the grandeur of Versailles wherever you choose to light it. At The Biennale Des Antiquaires, Francis Kurkdjian Brings Versailles To The Grand Palais 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z They include ash, beech, birch, elm, holly, hornbeam, lime, oak and poplar. Strategy focuses on UK trees' future 2013-10-09T03:02:12Z The garden is a palette of greens, with relatively few flowers, Mr. Hoyland said, built on four basic plants: yew, hornbeam, box and lime trees. The Saturday Profile: William Christie Opens Gate to World All His Own 2012-10-20T08:20:05Z Copperas Wood nature reserve in Essex lost almost three-quarters of its ancient woodland, which primarily consisted of coppiced sweet chestnut and hornbeam. Great Storm: The healing power of nature 2012-10-15T03:05:37Z Hornbeam, beech, myrobalan or cherry plum and blackthorn also have their advantages, hornbeam being proof against great exposure, blackthorn thriving on poor land and possessing great impenetrability and so on. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In the less exposed localities, on northern slopes and sheltered valleys, the European forms become more numerous, and we find species of alder, birch, ash, elm, maple, holly, hornbeam, Pyrus, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The woods most used for cogs are hickory, maple, hornbeam and locust. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The hornbeam thrives well on stiff, clayey, moist soils, into which its roots penetrate deeply; on chalk or gravel it does not flourish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Beech and hornbeam are used for the cogs of mortise wheels. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z It was full of long straight walks between hedges of yew and hornbeam, which rose tall and close on every side. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The road resembles an avenue, overshadowed by lofty oaks, tulip, chestnut, walnut, beech, hornbeam, birch, maple, elm, nyssa, and other trees, growing very close 43 together. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Ascham recommended for men of average strength arrows made of birch, hornbeam, oak, and ash. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z The inner part of the bark of the hornbeam is stated by Linnaeus to afford a yellow dye. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The prevailing types of trees are the oak, maple, hornbeam, beech, ash and elm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Is it not from the hornbeam that groweth within the garden of old husbands? The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z The hornbeams grow very slowly and their wood is close-grained, heavy, and hard. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z THE blue beech, or American hornbeam, belongs to the birch family rather than to the beeches. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z I looked down on to rows of clipped, regular, hornbeam hedges, with grass paths between them, maze-like. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z They will be primarily native broadleaf species, such as ash, oak, rowan, birch and hornbeam. Search under way for jubilee wood 2011-07-30T01:33:16Z Among the crowd of young trees—scrub oaks, red oaks, white oaks, cedars, ashes, hickories, birches, maples, aspens, sumachs, and hornbeams—was a single tupelo. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z In favorable places the hornbeams grow into regular oval heads, their branches dividing into a multitude of wiry, supple twigs. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z In north and central France the chief trees are the oak, the beech, rare south of the Loire, and the hornbeam; less important varieties are the birch, poplar, ash, elm and walnut. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The little throats which sang so sweetly had got caught, had writhed, twisted in the tiny wire nooses between the hornbeam battlements. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z The aisle was transformed by six field maples and two hornbeams of up to 25ft tall. Royal bouquet draws abbey crowds 2011-05-02T15:18:12Z Inside Westminster Abbey itself, six field maples and two hornbeams will line the aisle leading up to the altar. Crowds gather for royal wedding 2011-04-29T03:02:21Z Closely related to the hornbeams and birches is a genus of small water-loving trees that grow rapidly and serve definite, special uses in the Old and New World. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z They pointed to the hornbeam arbour with anxious faces, as much as to say that he would find the cause of their sorrow there. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:43.727Z The oak, pine, beech, hornbeam and birch are the chief varieties of trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Powder and lead were too precious to waste much of them on fish, so the old hunter made his pupil a hornbeam bow and arrows with spiked heads. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z The carpenter is not pleased who has hornbeam to work up, for his tools lose their edge far too quickly for his labour to be profitable. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Like the hornbeams, hazel bushes, and ground hemlock, they are lovers of the shade; and they fringe the forest with a shrubbery border. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z "Victorien!" whispered a voice below me, from a hornbeam overgrown with red creeper. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Here, ash and linden trees tower nearly 150 feet, their huge canopies shading a moist, tangled understory of hornbeams, ferns, swamp alders and crockery-sized fungi. The Last Stand? Rallying Behind a Primeval Forest 2010-08-12T13:39:00Z I saw a quantity of strawberries beside the hornbeam hedge; I gathered a few, but did not stop long, and soon went forward. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Mixed forests may contain varieties of oak, chestnut, hornbeam, elm, and ash. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Bowls and dishes of hornbeam lasted forever, and would never leak nor crack. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z I hastened down the garden and ran to the hornbeam. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert. The Hills and the Vale The hornbeams had shot up irregularly; dead branches lashed by the wind from the Venn stretched themselves in the air like accusing fingers. The Son of His Mother Out of a block of hornbeam and the plates of one of his bulkheads. An Ocean Tramp The American hornbeam has bluish gray bark, very fine in texture, from which the name "blue beech," is common in some localities. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The trees are hawthorns, ilex, olive, fig, almond, chestnut, mountain ash, hornbeam, or elm, and I thought I saw oak, though it is said that it does not grow in Dalmatia. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Oak and hornbeam are specially mentioned; but, besides these, chestnut, birch, box, and hazel are alluded to. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The maple, the ash, the hornbeam, the elm and the birch have yet another method of escape from the home acre. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Clematis obstructed the hornbeams, the walks were covered with moss, brambles abounded on every side. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man After they have broken apart, the nutlets hang by threads, tough as hornbeam fibres always are. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z One afternoon one flew up into a hornbeam close to the garden, beside it in fact, and perched there full in view, not twenty yards at farthest. The Toilers of the Field In such cases, the oaks, beeches, hornbeams, and the like, have the younger parts of their roots completely enveloped with a dense coat of mycelium. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. And now the beeches and hornbeams are shedding their leaves. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 In the tufts of the hornbeams rose up holly stiff as bronze. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man The European hornbeam was a favorite tree for making the "pleached alleys," of which old-world garden-lovers were proud. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Old Vose and his sons and those old hornbeam directors—retired sea-captains, you know, as hard as old turtles—they have taken a stand against consolidation. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 It had long been observed that truffles grow in regions forested by certain trees, as the oak, beech, hornbeam, etc. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. It was full of long, straight walks, between hedges of yew and hornbeam, which rose tall and close on every side. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) I could not see, but I guessed at once that it was Philip, though it might have been Courtenay hiding behind some gooseberry bushes or the low hornbeam hedge, about twenty yards away. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden The hop hornbeam has habits like the other ironwood and an equal reputation for the hardness of its wood. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z He lay sprawled on the bottom of the Polly, his hornbeam hands clutching the keel, his face upraised wonderingly to the skies that were flooded with the glory of the morning. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The timber that grows in England is oak, ash, elm, beech, and hornbeam. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses Ash and hornbeam were his most precious woods. Confessions of Boyhood I wanted to run round to the back of the hornbeam hedge, which had been planted to shelter plants and not sharpshooters, but I restrained myself. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden Tufted spleenwort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series One afternoon one of the pair flew up into a hornbeam which stood beside the garden not twenty yards at farthest. Nature Near London The hornbeam is almost restricted to Essex and Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire The hornbeam was much less common than the ash and was saved with particular care. Confessions of Boyhood The fine, delicate spray of the hop hornbeam is a fairy net whose every mesh is fringed with immaculate beauty. Some Winter Days in Iowa There were miles of hedges; not yew, hornbeam had been chosen for this green, tranquil country. Great Possessions In the hornbeams at the verge blackcaps sing in spring a sweet and cultured song, which does not last many seconds. Nature Near London The plant bears cutting quite as well as the common hornbeam, and wherever the latter will grow this will also succeed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Uncle Lyman said only lightning could rive it, that the hornbeam drew fire from the clouds, and one should never go near it in a thunder storm. Confessions of Boyhood The great tangle of vine and lace work mixed with snow is young hop hornbeam, supporting honeysuckle. Some Winter Days in Iowa And there are oaks and hornbeams in the park about Claverings that have echoed to the howling of wolves and the clank of men in armour. Mr. Britling Sees It Through By these hornbeam trees a streamlet flows out of the copse, crossed at the hedge by a pole, to prevent cattle straying in. Nature Near London As in our common hornbeam, the male catkins appear before the leaves, and the female flowers develop in spring at the same time as the leaves. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 He lifted her in his arms, placed her on his shoulder like a big blue forget-me-not gathered from the grass, then deposited her by Leam on the seat beneath the cut-leaved hornbeam. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 The entrance lies between two hornbeam trees, which stand close to the brink, spreading over it their thorn-like branches and their shining leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Go thou to-night, and stand under the branches of the hornbeam, and wait for my coming. A House of Pomegranates The sharp relentless shrike that used to live by the copse moved up here, and from that very hornbeam perpetually darted across the road upon insects in the fern and furze opposite. Nature Near London In no case that I have seen is the variegation at all striking, and, except in tree collections, variegated hornbeams are hardly worth growing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 The elm, beech, lime, and hornbeam, are exactly the same in Louisiana as in France; the last of these trees is very common here. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing By the roadside slender trees of the hornbeam tribe are planted at intervals, and where these are wanting, tall flagstaffs take their place, to guide the wayfarer when six feet of snow cover the ground. The Roof of France And that evening, when the moon had risen, the young Fisherman climbed up to the top of the mountain, and stood under the branches of the hornbeam. A House of Pomegranates Keeping always down the slope, and a little in advance of the sun, by mid-day she had run clear of the beech forest into places where there grew hornbeams, with one or two sapling oaks. The Forest Lovers In any soil or position the hornbeam will grow readily, except exceedingly dry or too marshy spots. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Below in the garden he had an arbour-walk of hornbeam covered in, and resembling a long hall with windows cut in the side, looking towards the lake. Historical Miniatures Analogous phenomena of wide variability with true reversion may be seen in the variety of the European hornbeam called Carpinus Betulus heterophylla. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Close by was a picturesque old thatched summer-house, covered with roses; on each side were glades of chestnut, hornbeam, and lime trees, and looking westward Windsor Castle could be seen on the far horizon. Lady John Russell There were but one-and-twenty at table under the oak tree in the middle of the lawn, which, girt with elms and hornbeams, seemed like a hall of verdure. Fruitfulness On account of its great toughness the wood of the hornbeam is employed in engineering work for cogs in machinery. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 "That surely is Tage coming," said Mrs. Fonss to her daughter when she heard laughter and some Danish exclamations on the other side of the thick hedge of hornbeam. Mogens and Other Stories The hornbeam hedge is coming into leaf in patches although all parts of each side face the same point of the compass. More Pages from a Journal It was a lovely afternoon, and the sun shone outside the green tracery of a hornbeam alley in the Deanery garden, leading from the cloister to the river. The Pillars of the House, V1 In place of the former wild garden a large lawn now stretched before the pavilion, surrounded by some beautiful trees, elms and hornbeams. Fruitfulness In France sabots are also made of hornbeam wood, but the difficulty in working it and its weight render it less valuable for sabotage than beech. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 There is another variety which bears on the same tree differently shaped leaves, like the heterophyllous hornbeam; this tree is also remarkable from having pendulous branches, and bearing elongated, large, thin-shelled nuts. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 Here and there were pools of overflowed rivulets, and here and there were plantations of stunted hornbeam, the russet leaves of which still clung thickly to them. Michael The hallelujah chorus was still ringing when the watcher across the street stepped out from the shadow of the hornbeam. Keziah Coffin Catkin-bearing deciduous trees had long been seen to justify Darwin's doubt: oaks, chestnuts, beeches, hazels, hornbeams, birches, alders, willows and poplars are common both to the Old and New World. Darwin and Modern Science It hardly seems necessary to dwell upon the value of the hornbeam as a hedge or shelter plant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 At the farther end there was a thick, green alley of hornbeam trees, which had been the joy and pride of the late owner. The Country Doctor Dense, quaintly-shaped hornbeam hedges are not unfrequent in the gardens of many old English mansions, and in some old country farmhouses the sixteenth century craze is still perpetuated on a smaller scale. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 In the black shadow of the hornbeam Mr. Ellery stood still. Keziah Coffin In mountainous regions the hornbeam occupies a zone lower than that appropriated by the beech, rarely ascending more than 1,200 yards above sea level. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Carpinus Betulus,1 the common hornbeam, as is the case with so many of our native or widely cultivated trees, exhibits considerable variation in habit, and also in foliage characters. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 The Hornbeam Walk in Richmond Park, from Pembroke Lodge toward the Ham Gate, will recur to many Southerners as a good instance of the fitness of the hornbeam for avenues. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 A few years ago an English firm required a large quantity of hornbeam wood for the manufacture of lasts, but failed to procure it in England. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Opposite its door, on the other side of the road, grew a spreading hornbeam tree surrounded by a cluster of swamp blackberry bushes. Keziah Coffin |
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