| 单词 | shrubby |
| 例句 | The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He ran hard uphill, behind the walls and back through the shrubby wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Where all other plants have shed their leaves, the sage remains evergreen, the gray-green leaves — bitter, aromatic, rich in proteins, fats, and needed minerals — clinging to the stems of the dense and shrubby plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroach- ing on the road was tinged a violent red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And when I looked I didn’t see anything but a shrubby tree and papery acorns underneath it and she said Hazelnuts! How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Much to Salem’s credit, this site was a shrubby piece of nothing,” Carpenter said, adding that part of permaculture criteria is to be far from big agricultural farmland. Permaculture practices let nursery thrive off grid 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Cut back late-summer-flowering, shrubby perennials now to promote bushier growth and a tidier habit. Keeping the salad days alive 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z I'm at an AirBnb on a shrubby desert hillside, chopping an onion with a dull chef's knife on a glass cutting board. How to make holidays any time, any place 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z One panic attack, two broken lamps, three Airbnbs and a never-found pair of glasses later, we moved into a ranch house on a shrubby desert hill. My pasta, myself: Forging a home in New Mexico through Hatch green chile pasta 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Paved with smooth stones, it descends some 2,300 feet, switchbacking down rocky slopes speckled with cactuses and shrubby trees, into the Rio Ravelo canyon. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z With my expectations adjusted, I noticed the comfortable space between the sites, which were surrounded by shrubby buttonwood trees, bay bean vines and lantana. The Florida Keys by Camper Van, With Baby 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z To do this, they examined plants from other basil species, including citrus basil, holy basil and a shrubby species named Ocimum gratissimum. The race to save sweet basil 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z With her wigs, a giant knife and a stocked pantry, she declared herself ready for intransigent shrubby weeds in the “the garden, honoring my Jamaican roots, and the apocalypse,” she said. Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The looming hills were green with shrubby trees and coastal grasses; where they met the water, layers of rock folded like cake frosting into the ocean. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z Some homeowners have chosen to forgo grass entirely, he says, leaving exposed soil or choosing to landscape with shrubby or decorative rocks. How to have a lush yard without using too much water 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Still, with its beautiful glossy green leaves, fragrant white flowers and shrubby habit, Coffea arabica makes a handsome and fun houseplant. How to grow your cup of coffee, indoors 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z What were once lush woodlands had become a dry, shrubby landscape called a chaparral, and large fires were common. Fossils Buried in LA Tar Pit Show Why Saber-Toothed Cats Blinked Out of Existence 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Others counter that so few national forests have been logged in recent decades that species such as ruffed grouse and bobcat, which need open space and young, shrubby forest, are losing habitat. How much U.S. forest is old growth? It depends who you ask 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Where the visually receding bars end, a crisp white rectangle becomes uncanny architecture, transforming all those contiguous curves into a suggestion of shrubby landscape. Review: The Hammer pulls off a marvelously orchestrated show of Bridget Riley's drawings 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Last week, the researchers reported initial results from 100 shrubby and grassy sites. Scientists exposed plants to a yearlong drought. The result is worrying for climate change 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Covering almost 150 square miles of volcanic land, the park encompasses open plains, shrubby hills and coves. Haunting the Coast of Spain: The Ghost Hotel of Algarrobico 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Western azaleas are deciduous, with fresh green foliage emerging in spring on a vase-shaped shrubby framework to 4 feet tall and as wide. Western azaleas are tough for home gardeners, but Lake Wilderness Arboretum offers abundant blooms and bouquet 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s starting at the north end, where pelicans nest on shrubby mangroves. Project will double the size of island in US wildlife refuge 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Left to its own devices, Robbins explained, hazelnut grows into a straggly, shrubby tree. ‘There’s good fire and bad fire.’ An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z These species need a variety of habitats, including meadows, shrubby thickets, groves of young saplings and mature forests. West Virginia seeks landowners to improve wildlife habitat 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z A cousin of the hibiscus, hollyhock and okra, cotton is an ancient, shrubby plant that produces ruffled flowers ranging from pale yellow to pink. Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Drier, shrubby peat, which is more likely to emit carbon, rises in late spring and falls in late summer. How peat could protect the planet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Building a wall means more than cutting through desolate desert, grassy ranchlands, shrubby wildlife preserves or old vacant lots — it also means seizing land from working families. Texans on southern border promise to fight Trump’s efforts to take their homes for border wall 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Macrolichens are big, but also usually leafy or shrubby, like the one pictured at the top of this post. Did the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Inadvertently Help Lichens? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Its shrubby grassland and Columbia River habitat supported mink and otters, threatened salmon and many other species. Sites of major US weapons tests now see wildlife flourishing 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Its shrubby grassland and Columbia River habitat support mink and otters, threatened salmon and many other species. At a glance: Weapons sites converted into wildlife refuges 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z In the fire, low-lying plants and trees in woodland and shrubby areas in the mountains were completely scorched. Hiking in the Woolsey fire’s burn area: See photos of nature's remarkable comeback 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Picture a woodland glade along Alaskan Way populated with dogwood, willow oak and coast redwood trees skirted with blossoming camellias, shrubby cinquefoil and Oregon grape. As the Viaduct tumbles, a dynamic, carefully designed living landscape waits to emerge 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z White beaches, shrubby cliffs, tracks and trenches flicker onto my computer screen. Remembrance 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Junipers are shrubby, aggressively invasive trees so explosively flammable that firefighters call them “little gasoline bombs” and “gasoline on a stick.” As wildfires rage, Trump administration plans to slash fire science funding 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But the game animals Ledford wants to showcase need sprawling expanses of flat, shrubby grassland. From Defiled to Wild--Can a Spent Coal Mine Be Reborn as a Nature Conservation Center? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Yellow warblers prefer the low, shrubby trees and messy, fourth-generation wetlands so common in New York City’s parklands. Beautiful and Brutal 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could maintain its hold on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could store moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Common invasive plants include shrubby honeysuckle and Japanese barberry. Maine wants to beat back invader plants from farms, woodlots 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Unlike heavily forested mountainous areas, the shrubby yucca, agave and creosote provide uninterrupted views of soaring peaks, lush, high-elevation glens and the American piece of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest in North America. The stunning beauty of Big Bend National Park stretches across two countries. Could it survive a wall? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In less than a year, says developer Senergy PV SA, this shrubby lot will be covered with 96,000 gleaming solar panels from China, injecting up to 30 megawatts into the grid. Africa battles to get big solar projects on grid 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “I think the tree of life will become a lot more shrubby.” Strange seaweed rewrites history of green plants 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z As iconic as the flowering dogwood is, other dogwoods do more for wildlife; namely, the alternate-leaf dogwood and the shrubby gray and silky dogwoods. Improving your garden’s ecology In front of him, a huge wall of windows is serving up a wide view of Silicon Valley—a brown, shrubby stretch clear out to the Santa Cruz Mountains. The Popes of Silicon Valley Swathes of shrubby vegetation, dominated by scrub oaks, sprouted in the burned patches, surrounding small islands of surviving ponderosa pine and other conifers. Forest fires: Burn out 2012-09-19T17:21:21.097Z Prickly needles of shrubby pines intermingled with all manner of oaks. Op-Ed Contributor: Mean Streets for Staten Island Mountain Mint 2012-08-15T01:23:16Z It forms a slender shrubby plant of from 8 to 10 ft. high, with opposite lance-shaped smooth leaves, which are entire at the margins, and bears small white four-petalled sweet-scented flowers disposed in panicles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Pods 1-seeded, oblong, the short style becoming dorsal.—A low shrubby plant; the bark and long roots deep yellow and bitter. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Hunter: small shrubby tree rocky hillsides and woodland prairies. Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z They did not make their home with us, as had the big locust that, in the late autumn, I captured when he was feasting on a moth in the shrubby field behind the convent. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Plant evergreens; lay and put in cuttings of most of the hard-wooded sorts of shrubby plants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The valleys and lower elevations, notwithstanding the poverty and parched state of the soil, were partially covered with grass and shrubby plants, which afford sustenance to numerous herds of guanacoes. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Embryo in one of the angles of the mealy albumen, somewhat curved.—Somewhat shrubby with grooved stems, climbing by tendrils from the ends of the branches. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Most of this shrubby zone is on the slope; on the western side this zone abuts pinyon-juniper woodland, and on the eastern side is bordered by Artemisia tridentata in the sandy bottom of the drainage. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Its shrubby form, somewhat silvery foliage, and large canary-colored, very fragrant flowers make it always a conspicuous and beautiful plant. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z He could not see the shining stretch of water Lumley had spoken of, the valley was too thickly covered with shrubby undergrowth for that. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z It rises in a shrubby manner, from eight to ten feet in height, the main stem being covered with a silver-grey bark, and dividing into several branches at the top. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Grain oblong, free.—Arborescent or shrubby grasses, simple or with fascicled branches, and with large spikelets in panicles or racemes; blade of the leaf jointed upon the sheath; flowers polygamous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It is a perennial plant, with herbaceous or slightly shrubby stems, the foliage remaining green during winter when grass is scarce, and so attracting animals that would otherwise probably instinctively shun it. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z But its pointed leaves, shrubby habit, and rank odor, together with its more numerous flower-whorls, proclaim its separate identity. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Undershrub, un′dėr-shrub, n. a shrubby plant, but hardly to be called a shrub, a small shrub. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z In front we observed brown, grassy, shrubby hills, cliffs, precipices and vast fastnesses. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Achenes obovoid, with a small summit and no pappus.—Herbs or shrubby plants, bitter and aromatic, with small commonly nodding heads in panicled spikes or racemes; flowering in summer. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Many curious varieties have been obtained by Japanese horticulturists, including some dwarf shrubby forms not exceeding a few feet in height. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Herbaceous, having the character of an herb; not woody or shrubby. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Stephanotis, stef-a-nō′tis, n. a genus of shrubby twining plants of the milkweed family. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Genista, jē-nis′ta, n. a large genus of shrubby, leguminous plants, with simple leaves and yellow flowers. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Two cultivated shrubby species, from Europe, with filiformly divided leaves, have occasionally escaped from gardens and become spontaneous, viz., The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The plants we saw were about a foot and a half high, the stalks shrubby, and but little branched; the foliage and flowers as represented on the plate. The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 9 or, Flower-Garden Displayed 2011-12-24T03:08:05.677Z This shrubby Composita is quite abundant in the south, and when covered with its large yellow flowers with purple-brown centers is very showy. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z During severe weather I have observed them in Norfolk, flocking to the salt marshes, and feeding on the seeds of saline plants, especially those of the shrubby sea-blite. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Monte, mon′te, n. a shrubby tract, a forest: a Spanish-American gambling game, played with a pack of forty cards.—Three-card monte, a Mexican gambling game, played with three cards, one usually a court-card. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Dryas Octopetala, L., a dwarf matted slightly shrubby plant, with simple toothed leaves and large white solitary flowers, has the characters of this section excepting its 8–9-parted calyx and 8 or 9 petals. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Common in shrubby clearings and burns in the Cisco Lake and Little Girl's Point regions. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Upon the mesas of the south we often see a shrubby member of the mallow family, with long, wandlike branches ornamented with closely set, pink flowers, of delicate texture and pleasant perfume. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Two shrubby species of Euonymus belong to the flora of North America, but the bulk of the large family is tropical. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Cytisus, sit′i-sus, n. a group of hardy leguminous shrubby plants, with yellow, white, or purple flowers, chiefly in the warmer temperate parts of the Old World. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Higher still came dense shrubby growths, much of it thorny, seamed by our narrow trail, and threaded here and there by glowing fronds of golden shower orchids. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Other hares were occasionally seen in the evenings in the shrubby clearing around the camp house; and one was even seen on the porch. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Its shrubby form, with densely crowded leaves, becomes conspicuous by reason of its long spikes of purple-woolly buds and blossoms. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sterile soil is often covered by extensive growths of this charming shrubby tree which spreads by underground root-stocks. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Azalea, a-zā′le-a, n. a genus of shrubby plants, with fine white, yellow, or crimson flowers, mostly natives of China or North America, closely allied to the rhododendron. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Every shrubby field was alive with butterflies of many kinds and the vigorous shaking of each bush yielded excellent harvests of strange insects which fell into the open umbrella held beneath. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z In a great majority of cases too, the pelargoniums so commonly met with in greenhouses and summer parterres are of shrubby or sub-shrubby habit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Another species—A. tridentata, Nutt.—is the shrubby form, growing so abundantly all over the alkali plains of the Great Basin, where it holds undisputed possession with the prairie-dog and the coyote. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In the same rose family with apples, plums, cherries, and service-berries is listed the genus Crataegus, a shrubby race of trees, undersized as a rule, with stiff, zigzag branches set with thorns. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z He mentions a tree at the Island of the Galapagos where they careened, like a pear-tree, 'low and not shrubby, very sweet in smell, and full of very sweet gum.' History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z He sat motionless, his eye commanding the fair valley from the rocky entrance on the one side to the shrubby cleft on the other, through which the lake found its outlet. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The plants are mostly herbs, rarely becoming shrubby, with generally simple glandular hairs on the stem and leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z In general, we’re finding a lot more arthropods in our shrubby tundra plots compared with more open tundra plots. Scientist at Work: Counting Our Bugs Before the Chicks Hatch 2011-06-13T21:19:57Z It is a shrubby, round-headed tree, with stout ascending branches, set with thorns an inch or more in length. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The rafts thus formed in time became consolidated by the deposition of earthy materials, leaves, twigs and vegetable matter, and are covered with a rank growth of vegetation, at first shrubby, but at last arboreous. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The wind of autumn ran steadily through the shrubby weedy lawn with a sigh that had in it the very essence of sadness. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z On proceeding west from the Atlantic region the forest changes into a shrubby vegetation, and this into the prairies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z For that day, the woodcocks are permitted to remain undisturbed in their shrubby cover. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Stopping where a shrubby mesquite sprawls, he hitches his team to a chain or rope that lays hold of the trunk, and hauls the plant out by its roots. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The species are shrubby plants, with axillary, white, red, or purple flowers, generally in leafy spikes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z At intervals were patches of shrubby, ill-smelling "heavenly bushes." Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z Quercus, the classical Latin name; stellata, refers to the stellate hairs on upper side of leaf; minor, refers to size of tree, which is often shrubby; obtusiloba, refers to the blunt lobes of leaves. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z She stood for a long time staring at the shrubby-457- slopes that rose to the barren rock wilderness of the purple mountain crest. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Chinquapins grow to be medium-sized trees in Texas and Arkansas, but east of the Mississippi they are smaller, and east of the Alleghanies, mere shrubby undergrowth, covering rocky banks or crouching along swamp borders. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The species are shrubby switch-plants, natives of the warm temperate zone, found especially on sandy soil. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z It is a member of the monocotyledonous order Dioscoreaceae, climbing plants with slender herbaceous or shrubby shoots, to which belong the yam and the British black bryony, Tamus communis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z I gathered a shrubby Willow, with lanceolate downy leaves like those of El�agnus. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z It is not so herbaceous as it seems, or as its name implies, for its shrubby stem and branches creep along underground, sending up only short, scantly leaved twigs. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Even at an altitude of eight thousand feet the familiar gold-cup acorns are borne on shrubby oaks not more than a foot high! Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The proper food of the ostrich is tops of shrubby plants, with grain and seeds, though they “bolt” many odd and indigestible substances. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z This shrubby tree was said to be indestructible. A New Life For Jatropha 2010-02-24T11:00:00Z The plants are generally herbaceous, often, however, reaching a gigantic size, but are sometimes shrubby, as in Pothos, a genus of shrubby climbing plants, chiefly Malayan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The flower is, in like manner, internally hairy; the stem is shrubby, and the leaves similar. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Shrubby, red-flowered buckeyes, often seen in gardens and in the shrubbery borders of parks, are horticultural crosses between the European horse-chestnut and a shrubby, red-flowered native buckeye that occurs in the lower Mississippi Valley. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Araliace�, which is nearly related to the Umbellifer�, but the species are of a more shrubby habit. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Jatropha is a shrubby tree native to Central America that produces apricot-sized fruit that each contains a trio of grape-sized seeds that are about 30% oil. A New Life For Jatropha 2010-02-24T11:00:00Z Suffrutescent, slightly shrubby or woody at the base only, 39. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Of shrubby trefoil we learn that “if a man hold it in his hand he cannot be hurt with the biting of any venemous beast.” The Old English Herbals America has fourteen, four of which assume tree form; the rest are shrubby "winterberries." Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The plants are rough-haired annual or perennial herbs, more rarely shrubby or arborescent, as in Cordia and Ehretia, which are tropical or sub-tropical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Here too are found many of the more beautiful open-air flowering plants of a shrubby character, e.g. magnolia, azalea, camellia, begonia and paulownia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" A genus of Melastomacea, an order of exotic plants of the evergreen tree and shrubby kinds. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In size it varies from a shrubby plant to a tree of from 30 to 40 ft. in height according to the climate in which it grows, being arborescent in tropical latitudes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The yaupon is a shrubby tree of spreading habit, with very small, oval, evergreen leaves and red berries. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Some species have a shrubby growth and are evergreen perennials; the best-known is I. sempervirens, a native of southern Europe, a much-branched plant about a foot high with long racemes of white flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The plants are herbaceous or shrubby; the leaves are entire, and alternate, or in pairs near one another; the flowers are solitary and do not arise in the leaf-axils. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Lonicera.—The shrubby Loniceras are nearly all inclined to become very thick and full of weakly shoots if not well looked after. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The plants are herbs, sometimes becoming shrubby at the base, with opposite, simple, generally uncut leaves and swollen nodes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In Eastern parks it is occasionally seen as a shrubby pine with unusually interesting, artistic cones. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z A leafless and fantastic euphorbia, E. canariensis, and a shrubby composite plant, Cacalia kleinia, give a character to the landscape about Santa Cruz. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The perennial and shrubby kinds may be wintered in a conservatory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" This applies more especially to the shrubby Veronicas. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens And see! the deserts cast a pleasing gloom, And shrubby heaths rejoice in purple bloom:40 Whilst fruitful crops rise by their barren side, And bearded groves display their annual pride. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It was a very pretty spot, shrubby and treesy, with a noisy rivulet washing the door-steps of an old ruined chapel. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia In hot dry districts such as Arabia and north-east tropical Africa, genera have been developed with a low, much-branched, dense, shrubby habit, with small hairy leaves and very small flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Violets and plantains also form tall shrubby plants, and there are many strange arborescent composit�, as in other oceanic islands. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras L. Sullivantii is a shrubby sort, with not unattractive flowers of a brownish-orange colour. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens COLEUS, a genus of herbaceous or shrubby plants belonging to the natural order Labiatae, chiefly natives of the tropics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The plants are shrubby climbers with generally compound opposite leaves, the stalk of which is sensitive to contact like a tendril, becoming twisted round suitable objects and thereby giving support to the plant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The robins that greeted the dawn on Burial Hill sang here at midday, blackbirds chorused, and song sparrows sent forth their tinkling songs from the shrubby growths. Old Plymouth Trails A shrubby Silene is nearly as tall; and an allied endemic genus, Schiedea, has numerous shrubby species. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Veronica.—Several of the shrubby Veronicas do well. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens First we cut low, shrubby evergreens, hemlocks mostly, and with these made a sort of enclosure, some four rods in diameter, around the kettles, by planting them in the snow. Happy Days for Boys and Girls They nest on the ground in open woods or on shrubby hillsides, making large structures, of leaves and strips of bark, lined with grasses. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A small tree, sometimes shrubby in growth, of irregular form, with brown twigs; rarely cultivated; from Europe. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Vitis is further distinguished as follows: The plants are climbing or trailing, rarely shrubby, with woody stems and mostly with coiling, naked-tipped tendrils. Manual of American Grape-Growing The notes on tender shrubs and trees grown in the south-west are fittingly supplemented by a passing reference to plants used for covering walls, mostly of climbing habit, but a few of shrubby growth. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The Gossypium is either herbaceous, shrubby, or treelike, varying in height from three to twenty feet. The Story of the Cotton Plant For general information regarding the shrubby plants of the United States use: "Our Shrubs of the United States." Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 A shrubby plant, 2 to 12 ft. high, found quite abundantly in rocky or barren soil throughout. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Two shrubby species do not attain a greater height than four or five feet; these grow in sandy soils, or among rocks exposed to sun and air. Manual of American Grape-Growing The shrubby Spir�as may also be used sparingly in a fairly light and open place, though plenty of sun is required as a rule to enable them to flower properly. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens There are about eighty species, some herbaceous and some shrubby, and of almost all colours, and in most of the species the colours are remarkably bright and clear. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare There are many cases when even in the same family low and herb-like species have finely-cut leaves, while in shrubby or ligneous ones they more or less resemble those of the Laurel or Beech. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In A few are shrubby, and others are from small to large trees. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination The original wild hens lived in the dry, grassy, and shrubby jungles of India. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study A tree in its own country, but a shrubby wall plant here. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Directly below, in a group of shrubby trees on the border of the stony creek which alone remained of the river, was a village of white tents. The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Beyond the broad beach, he could see the line of breakwaters, and at their left the electric street lights threw their beams into the blackness of little parks and shrubby lawns. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure A large order of mainly herbaceous and shrubby plants of warm countries, with usually milky juice. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination He states that this chestnut is usually shrubby in the region east of the Alleghany Mountains, and assuming the tree form west of the Mississippi River. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. Of this character is a small group known in New Zealand, the natural habitat of a large number of shrubby species, by the apposite name of Whipcord Veronicas. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens We must try and find a hollow with some shrubby stuff that they can chew, poor beasts, for they’ll get nothing else. The Peril Finders The land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby growth of young apple orchard almost hid the little weather-grey house from the road. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Accordingly, this type of leaf is very common among all those plants which spring up beside the hedgerows in the same erect shrubby manner as the nettles. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 From ferns alone, or from only plants of shrubby growth, a most beautiful native rock garden may be made. Making A Rock Garden Where Rock Roses are out of the question, their place may worthily be filled by the hardier shrubby Helianthemums, though they differ greatly from Cistine� in their trailing habit and smaller flowers. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Up this slide, either on the rock, or beside it, through the bushes and the spruce trees, which soon become low and shrubby, leads the pathway, not difficult, but somewhat fatiguing, from its steepness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Maloo-climber of India, where the gigantic shrubby stems often attain a height of 300 feet, running over the tops of the tallest trees, and twisting so tightly around their stems as to kill them. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture On one side only, and that towards the east, there was a belt of verdure, with here and there a solitary tree, or at most two or three growing together, stunted-like and shrubby. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness The G. hirsutum is a shrubby plant, its maximum height being about six feet. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades A little creeping shrub, delightful for a rough bank, and will thrive under trees better than most shrubby plants. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens It was rough work searching for a resting-place, and the best they could find was upon some rough, shrubby growth, not unlike heather, in a recess among several mighty blocks of stone. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Thevetia neriifolia.—This shrubby plant is common in the West Indies and in many parts of Central America. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Schillie.—"All this shrubby stuff about here, looking something like Jerusalem artichoke, is ginger I think." Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Add to this, proper drainage and cool soil achieved by, first, cultivation, and later by heavy mulching, artificial shading, or shrubby undergrowth extended outside the root area, and your tree should 'go to town.' Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 R. webbiana.—Coming from some of the highest elevations on the Himalaya at which shrubby vegetation exists, this species is the hardiest of the Indian Roses. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens They make dense, shrubby miniature bushes a few inches high, very attractively colored. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse The vale is no wider than to admit p. 39the road, a small gurgling river almost by its side, and narrow slips of rocky and shrubby ground which part them. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 From the roots upwards, it has not a single branch or shrubby excrescence, but grows beautifully smooth and straight, tapering towards the top. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Stem shrubby, four or five feet high; leaves compound, of a grayish-green color and strong odor; flowers yellow, in terminal, spreading clusters; the fruit is a roundish capsule, and contains four rough, black seeds. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The more shrubby species are welcome in the garden, where the Horse Chestnut would be out of place. *�. carnea Hybrid between �. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The beds were formed of a shrubby plant strewed over about a third of the tent, and kept separate by pieces of bone laid across from side to side. Peter the Whaler The common pear, introduced from Europe; a frequent escape from cultivation throughout New England and elsewhere; becomes scraggly and shrubby in a wild state. Handbook of the Trees of New England The stalks are shrubby, the leaves are fleshy, and of a glaucous or sea-green colour. A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 A hardy, shrubby plant, about three feet high. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Although often trees of considerable size in their native homes, they mostly retain a somewhat shrubby character in this country. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens CALCEOLARIA, in botany, a genus belonging to the natural order Scrophulariaceae, containing about 150 species of herbaceous or shrubby plants, chiefly natives of the South American Andes of Peru and Chile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Marjorie stood for a long time, staring at the shrubby slopes that rose to the barren rock wilderness of the purple mountain crest. The Literary World Seventh Reader Several species occur in the British Isles; the largest, Orobanche major, is parasitic on roots of shrubby leguminous plants, and has a stout stem 1 to 2 ft. high. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" It is a hardy, perennial, shrubby plant, two or three feet in height. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Itea virginica Virginia; Saxifrage� White; July A freely branched rounded shrub, from 3 to 4 feet in height, and has small spikes arranged in much the same way as the shrubby Veronicas. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens It is handsome and shrubby, growing to a height of two or three feet. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Black pepper is the fruit of a shrubby creeping plant, which grows wild in the East Indies, and is cultivated, with much advantage, for the sake of its berries, in Java and Malabar. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy It is classed as an herbaceous plant, but it is shrubby, and on old specimens there is more wood than on many dwarf shrubs. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Of the Capsicum there are many species, both annual and perennial; some of the latter being of a shrubby or woody character, and from four to six feet in height. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. In clearing for planting yam and plants of the yam type they leave the upright stems of some of the trees and shrubby undergrowth for the yams, etc., to trail over. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Jerome climbed another stone wall into a shrubby pasture, and went across that to a pine wood, and thence, by devious windings and turnings, through field and forest, to his old woodland. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel On either side runs a belt of date palms about half a mile wide, but these are seldom worth looking at, being mostly low and shrubby, like an overgrown market garden. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years None of the shrubby Candytufts can compare with this for usefulness and beauty; it comes into flower in May, and is in its greatest beauty in early June. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Like the other species of the family, it is of tropical origin; and being a perennial, and of a shrubby character, will not succeed in open culture at the North. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Down I pikes, out the front door and back through the shrubby. On With Torchy I think I would like to plant in Bed A, inter alia—some shrubby things. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books The female lays her eggs on a variety of shrubby plants; gooseberry and currant bushes are often chosen. The Life-Story of Insects A distinct and very hardy hybrid, being shrubby and tree-like in shape, but withal very dwarf. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Lavender is a hardy, low-growing, shrubby plant, originally from the south of Europe. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. But it's a peach of a night, warm and moony; so after I turns out the light I camps down on the windowseat and gazes out over the shrubby towards the water. On With Torchy Polygonum cunninghami: A very wiry shrubby bush, which always indicates that the ground where it grows is liable to be occasionally flooded. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The plant is shrubby, and as it attains a height of two or three feet it occupies a considerable space. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition This is a hybrid and much improved variety of the well-known evergreen and shrubby Candytuft, often called "Everlasting Candytuft." Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. A shrubby, thickly-branched plant, from a foot to upwards of three feet high, according to the depth and quality of the soil in which it is cultivated. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The trees appeared small and shrubby, and the savannahs dry and rusty. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland This plant is shrubby, has thick woolly leaves, especially on the underside. A Voyage to New Holland At day-light, on the 12th, we found we had got clear of the mountains, and were entering a low extensive plain, covered with shrubby trees. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time N. fruticosa, or shrubby tobacco, an ornamental evergreen shrub, native of China, with pink blossoms, which grows to about three feet. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Rosemary is a half-hardy, shrubby plant, from three to six feet in height. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. About 2 mile south-east from the spring we found 3 or 4 shrubby trees, upon one of which was cut an anchor and cable, and the year 1642. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland Vegetation continues the same; Baloot, or oak, is said to be abundant though I did not see it; Daphne, and Xanthoxylon, compose the chief shrubby vegetation; Saccharum here and there. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Groves and streams, rustic bridges and flowing fountains, shrubby labyrinths and flowery dells, were grouped in happiest harmony. The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl A shrubby variety is common in South Australia, and other parts of New Holland. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. They are hardy, perennial plants, of a shrubby character, and comparatively low growth. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. In other places the woods appeared to be low and shrubby, and we saw no signs of inhabitants. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 The limit of the grey shrubby Salix may be taken as 1,000 feet above that, the other plants are precisely the same as those of other swards; Abelia extends higher than Salix. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The milkweed must not be omitted among these; a beautiful shrubby plant with purple flowers, which are alike remarkable for beauty of colour and richness of scent. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America The scene was occasionally enlivened by the bright purple tints of the dogwood, blended with the browner shades of the dwarf birch and frequently intermixed with the gay yellow flowers of the shrubby cinquefoil. The Journey to the Polar Sea Rue is a hardy, shrubby, nearly evergreen plant, and thrives best in poor but dry and warm soil. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. It forms a compact, shrubby little plant if grown in an intermediate house during winter, and placed in the open in full sunshine during summer. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation The portion of it formerly cleared is now quite clean: all the plants, and they are very abundant, have a shrubby shady appearance; the branches being numerous, so that the first aspect is favourable. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Among those already introduced are two species of shrubby honeysuckle, white and rose-blossomed: these are called by the American botanists quilostium. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America We could now enter such thickets with greater safety; and in this we found a very beautiful new shrubby species of cassia, with thin papery pods and numbers of the most brilliant yellow blossoms. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Penetrating this shrubby border, one finds himself in what in New South Wales would be called a brush or scrub, and in India a jungle, extending over the greater part of the island. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 The Tree Lupine, L. arboreus, is a shrubby plant with a profusion of yellow flowers which has been successfully cultivated from Hobarton seed. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The hills around are bare, nothing but shrubby vegetation being visible, the tree-jungle not descending below 7,500 feet, except on one spur to the south-west, on which it reaches nearly to our present level. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Near the islands was noticed the same shrubby thick compact kind of seaweed, that had previously been seen on the parts of the North-west coast frequented by the turtle. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea It bears a truly desolate appearance, being nothing but ridges of bare white sand, scantily crowned with a few shrubby bushes. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The shrubby and herbaceous kinds may be increased by cuttings or division. Gardening for the Million Among the flowers that were strewed about the island was a superb shrubby grevillea, with scarlet flowers. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 The country immediately adjoining the cantonment is flat, with here and there a rounded hillock, destitute of any covering but grasses and a few low, half shrubby plants. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries At length the sight of numerous groups gathering blue-berries, in an extensive tract of shrubby pasture, indicated that we were approaching a town, and in a few minutes we had arrived at Portland. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O The hardy, shrubby kinds may be increased by cuttings placed under glass. Gardening for the Million The eastern side of Wessel's Islands presents a level aspect; only a few shrubby trees appear at intervals to break the uniformity of its gently undulating outline. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 A little below this large tract, the banks were covered with a thick Sofaida shrubby jungle, which looked at a distance like dwarf Sissoo. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Close to the rapids, with birchen-canoes moored in little inlets, is a village of the Indians, consisting of log-cabins and round wigwams, on a shrubby level, reserved to them by the government. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America Next door there was a new house building which would give good cover for observation, and the villa on the other side was to let, and its garden was rough and shrubby. The Thirty-Nine Steps The shrubby species are multiplied by cuttings taken in August or September, with a piece of the old wood attached, and planted in a sheltered situation. Gardening for the Million Gray openings in the border of shrubby growths changed to paler hue. Desert Gold Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward. The Time Machine Presently the trees grew thinner, and the shrubby undergrowth more abundant. The Island of Doctor Moreau Finally, midway of a winding and shrubby short cut, into which he turned as directed by the porter, he came suddenly upon her. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Pelargonium.—The shrubby kinds will grow well in any rich soil; loam and decayed leaves form a good compost for them. Gardening for the Million The shrubby kinds are often useful about the borders of clumps of trees and shrubbery, to slope the foliage down to the grass, and to soften or erase lines in the landscape. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) These were variously wooded with groves of aspen and cottonwood, with willow, cherry, and other shrubby trees. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The Arabs call it wolf-grapes, as, from its shrubby stalk, it has some resemblance to a vine. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time The shrubby kinds are well adapted for the fronts of shrubberies, and are propagated by cuttings taken in autumn and planted in a sheltered situation. Gardening for the Million Makes very long growths from a tuberous root; shrubby South, but dies to the ground in the North. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) As we advanced, the whole country around us assumed this appearance; and there was no other vegetation than the shrubby chenopodiaceous and other apparently saline plants, which were confined to the rising grounds. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The delicate lilac and white shrubby asters next appear, and these are followed by the large deep blue gentian, and here and there by the elegant fringed gentian. Canadian Crusoes Myrrh is the fragrant substance that oozes out of the stems and branches of the low, shrubby tree commiphora myrrha or comiphora kataf native to the Arabian deserts and parts of Africa. The World English Bible (WEB): The herbaceous kinds are increased by dividing the roots; the shrubby varieties by cuttings of the young wood planted under glass in March; while the stove species require to be placed in heat. Gardening for the Million There is a race of shrubby calceolarias, but it is little known in this country. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) With these were mingled a variety of shrubby trees, which aided to make the ravines almost impenetrable. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources How lightly should I not have run over the herbage, and viewed the irregular shrubby hills, diversified with clumps of cypress, verdant spots, and pastoral cottages, such as Zuccarelli loved to paint! Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents This shrubby knoll was once my favourite seat; Here did I love at evening to retreat, And muse alone, till in the vault of night, Hesper, aspiring, show'd his golden light. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas The shrubby sorts are increased by cuttings planted under a hand-glass. Gardening for the Million We went on monotonously through the deep sand, and monotonous was the wail of a bird among the shrubby heath. True Story of My Life There were chenopodiaceous and other shrubs along the beach; and, at the foot of the rocks, an abundance of ephedra occidentalis, whose dark-green color makes them evergreens among the shrubby growth of the lake. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources This is a well-known native species of shrubby growth, bearing large yellow flowers from 3 inches to 4 inches in diameter. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs The vegetable productions of the country seemed to be limited to a few small gum-trees, shrubby acacia, and triodia, with an occasional patch of grass. Journals of Australian Explorations The shrubby kinds are increased by layers or cuttings of the young wood, the herbaceous varieties by division of the roots in autumn. Gardening for the Million They are nearly as level as the lakes whose places they have taken, and present a dry, even surface free from rock-heaps, mossy bogginess, and the frowsy roughness of rank, coarse-leaved, weedy, and shrubby vegetation. The Mountains of California Mingled with the artemisia was a shrubby and thorny chenopodiaceous plant. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources It is of shrubby growth, with narrow-lanceolate, hoary leaves, and terminal spikes of blue flowers. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs The delicate lilac and white shrubby asters next appear; and these are followed by the large deep-blue gentian, and here and there by the elegant fringed gentian. Lost in the Backwoods The herbaceous kinds are increased by seed or division of the roots, the shrubby varieties by cuttings planted under glass, and the annuals by seed sown in the open in spring. Gardening for the Million Around, Across, along, the gardens' shrubby maze, They walk, they sit, they stand. Inns and Taverns of Old London This European Miocene flora was remarkable for the preponderance of arborescent and shrubby evergreens, and comprised many generic types no longer associated together in any existing flora or geographical province. The Antiquity of Man This is a neat-growing shrubby plant, with ovate acute leaves, that are covered with a yellowish down. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs It moved on with fearful rapidity down the shrubby side of the hill, supplied by the dry, withered foliage and deer-grass, which was like stubble to the flames. Lost in the Backwoods Acæna.—These shrubby plants are herbaceous and mostly hardy, of a creeping nature, fast growers, and suitable for dry banks or rough stony places. Gardening for the Million They build their nests on low shrubs—often on branches overhanging paths, or on the underside of the large leaves of the shrubby palm-trees. The Naturalist in Nicaragua To-day I silently swung up through the shrubby thicket in which the cottage and the stable behind it lay embedded and turned in to the yard. Over Prairie Trails A shrubby species, ranging in height from 12 feet to 20 feet, and the only one at all common in gardens. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs He concealed himself and his horse behind some low, shrubby trees that had been too insignificant for the camp fires, long since burned out, and scanned the battered dwelling. An Original Belle The immediate neighbourhood of the creek was in some places open, in others covered with a shrubby Acacia, with long glaucous, and rather fleshy phyllodia. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 From the low, shrubby hawthorns, I gathered the small red apples, and from beneath the maples, picked by their slim golden stems the notched and gorgeous leaves. Friends and Neighbors Cinquefoil, too, the shrubby variety, I saw in great numbers—another one of our native dwarf shrubs which, though decried as a weed, should figure as a border plant in my millionaire's park. Over Prairie Trails A beautiful shrubby species introduced from China about one hundred years ago. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Stem: 3 to 6 ft. high, shrubby, densely covered with bristles; older, woody stems with rigid, hooked prickles. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors A low shrubby Acacia with sigmoid phyllodia was frequent on the hills. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Clethra is an American shrubby genus of Ericaceae, found nowhere nearer to Madeira than North America. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 They started at the edge of the field to the left where a rank growth of shrubby weeds gave shelter for the snow to pile in. Over Prairie Trails A neat little shrubby plant, with small ovate, coriaceous leaves, and fragrant yellow and cream flowers. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs It is a straggling, shrubby bush from three to five feet tall. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Having crossed the plains, we came to broad sheets of sand, overgrown with low shrubby tea-trees, and a species of Hakea, which always grows in the vicinity of salt water. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 These lanes were very dusty at the time, and were hemmed in with an uninteresting shrubby growth on each side. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines The hills were covered with a dense scrubby bush of bamboos and prickly trees and shrubs, the plains were adorned with hundreds of noble palm-trees, and in many places with a luxuriant shrubby vegetation. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 They are of stiff, shrubby habit, about 4 feet high, and with branches thickly clothed with spines becoming brown with age. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Stem: 1 to 3 ft. high, shrubby, branching. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors I found a shrubby prickly Goodenia, about four or five feet high, growing on the borders of the scrub. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The soil is sandy, and the open commons are covered with a short grassy and shrubby vegetation. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The next mile or two was a tolerably steep ascent through a grand virgin forest, the trees being of great size, and the undergrowth consisting of fine herbaceous plants, tree-ferns, and shrubby vegetation. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 This is the smallest-growing of the shrubby Spiraeas, rarely attaining to a greater height than 12 inches. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs The bank of the river is rocky, steep, shrubby, and difficult of ascent or descent. Gala-days A native low shrubby Mulberry was found in this scrub, the fruit of which was good to eat, but of very small size. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The margins were elevated some few feet, and sloped down to the water, the ground being hard and dry to the water's edge, and covered with shrubby vegetation. The Naturalist on the River Amazons However, we all got safe to the North-Shore, which is but poor, white, sandy Land, and bears no Timber, but small shrubby Oaks. A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. Co: Due west it rises from this shrubby point. The Poetical Works of John Milton A heavy shower falls about once a week, and the shrubby vegetation never becomes parched as at Santarem. The Naturalist on the River Amazons |
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