The field is vast, including within its limits all sorts of climate and soil, producing thousands of flowers, infinite in variety and wonderful in beauty, their environment often as different as that of Heine's Pine and Palm.
This usually grows among pine trees, across the continent, but nowhere common.
This has a delicious fragrance, like Lily-of-the-valley, and grows in pine woods in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges.
Such a fort as San Juan consisted of a pine timber stockade around small buildings for gunpowder storage and quarters.
Within the four curtains stood the thick courtyard walls, and pinebeams a foot thick and half again as wide spanned the 15 to 20 feet between.
Beyond the marshes was wilderness--the pine barrens and cypress swamps, palmetto scrubs, and oak groves.
The absence of heat with plenty of light is shown in the vegetation of mountainous districts, where there is great size, but the absence of leafy expansion, as in the pine tribe (fig.
This soil has been cultivated for upward of two hundred years, but it is now little valued and is covered with oak and pine over much of its area.
They are practically worthless, while the original pinemakes very valuable lumber.
There you will find original pine, but on the worn-out land the 'old-field' pineare found.
The pine forests are diversified by the oak; you sometimes pass through six or seven miles of the first description of timber, which gradually changes, until you have six or seven miles of forest composed entirely of oak.
He reached those mines, and reports that they are located in a very rough country, twenty leagues inland; that the way thither is obstructed by great forests; and that the country is very cold, and has great pine forests.
It is now put in very good condition, with pine masts, which I took from that of the [original illegible] which are said to be better than those here; for the wood of this land is very heavy.
It may be that it is capable of being approached, as well as likely to be seen far away, and then it ought to have microscopic qualities, as the pine leaves have, which will bear approach.
Perhaps two or three pine trunks, used for a single pillar, gave the first idea of the grouped shaft.
She knew from the clear shining of her mother's eyes, and from the faint flush on her cheek, that it was no trifling news she was to hear, and that before that pine log burned away, they should have gone very deep.
Missy disdained to answer, but occupied herself with putting on the fire some choice pine knots which she had been reserving for this moment.
The Varians had fire morning and evening, and Jay had been dressed every day since she had had the charge of him, by a bright little blaze of pine and hickory.
Then I got a piece of fat pine that had washed ashore and made me a torch.
We'd better get a plug of that soft pine in the lazarette, then when it gets soaked it'll swell and hold tight.
Camp Mates in Michigan; or, With Pack and Paddle in the Pine Woods.
In the long twilight the Merrills took a leisurely walk through the pine tree grove off toward the south of the cottage and home along the rocks by the ocean.
The pine woods that smelled so sweet and good, the rolling golf links here and there, the glimpses of the Isle of Shoals that seemed no distance away, so clear was the air in the afternoon sunshine.
Greek gods; it is clothed with forests ofpine and other trees.
Pennsylvania on its western border; the well-watered and fertile central plains favour a prosperous fruit and agricultural industry, tracts of pine and cedar wood cover the sandy S.
Peru, but addressing himself to the welfare of the natives rather than the enrichment of Spain, was recalled, to pine and die in prison in 1558.
The fittest place for a bird like me Is the topmost bough of yon tall pine tree.
In a moment there was a rustling among the dry leaves and dozens of frogs and toads were seen hurrying towards the pine tree.
To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them.
The frogs had vanished; there was only the blue sky, the waving pine tree, and the quiet pond.
The giant, left alone, Saw on the bank, with luscious dates, His stoutpine staff bent down.
Enough yellow-pine pulp-wood is consumed in burners, or left to rot, to make double the total tonnage of paper produced in the United States.
It was an endless monotony of pine trees, vividly green and far apart, into which Diane presently rode.
Now with a mass of creeping blackberry and violets strapped to her saddle she was riding slowly back through the pine woods.
Somber-eyed little Indian lads carried water and gathered wood, fires brightened, there was a pleasant smell of pine in the morning air.
Swamp, jungle, pine and palmetto were vocal with the melody of many birds.
There was a veritable paradise of birds in the pine barren, Dick Sherrill had said, robins and bluebirds, flickers and woodpeckers with blazing cockades, shrikes and chewinks.
When at length the glaring white light of the sun struck sparks from the dew upon the pine and palmetto, Diane was riding rapidly south in quest of the Florida flat-woods.
Even beasts, which we shut up for our own amusement, though they are better fed than if they were free, still do not willingly endure being imprisoned, but pine for the free and unrestrained movements given to them by nature.
For I love the beasts and the mountain air, and methinks in a city I should pine for want of my old free life.
All around were dark forests of chestnut, pine and oak, where many a fierce beast had his lair.
Ah, nurse, let me go, and all the rest of the year, till the glad season comes round once more, I will stay with thee in this tower and pine no more.
Above her head he placed a great pine torch, and all the long night watches he sat with his arms about her and his cheek against her cheek; and his heart groaned within him with a grief too great for words.
A thick pasteboard, or thin pine board, about the thickness of an ordinary book-cover, and at least two inches longer and wider than the picture you are about to make.
In the first place, nothing will grow under the shade of its dark leathery, spinous leaves, which, even when shed, are more indestructible and noxious to grass than pine needles themselves.
Now, cleared and turfed, it leads the eye gently on to the Pine Tree Avenue; to the green of the fields beyond; to the valley and the distant hills.
The windows looked out on a pine wood across a hedge of rampant pink Dorothy Roses.
Heather and Gorse, Bramble and Bracken pressed hard upon the small area of the property which was at all cultivated, between densely growing clumps of pine and holly.
He sawed pine slabs till his back ached from lifting and his shirt and hands were black from the dried resin.
There it was, just as it ought to be, the big saw snarling its way through a pine log, and old Silas with the lever in his hand, standing as though he hadn't moved since the day Neale had gone away last September.
The hearth fire, the fagot or pitch-pine knot, and the pot of grease or lard with a simple wick were the earliest methods of artificial lighting.
If, however, on any special occasion they wished to light up their long houses more brightly, the Indians used pitch-pine knots.
In case they were traveling by night and did not care to proceed stealthily or secretly, these fagots of pitchpine gave them all the light they wanted.
This station was made by sawing off the top of a tall pine tree and placing thereon a small platform surrounded by a railing.
The pitch-pine knot and the cup of grease have been more or less used since these early times.
What was he about to do with such great quantities of pine knots?
The first light was produced from the simplest substances, solids: wood on the hearth, the pitch-pine knot, and the candle.
He had a few sticks of pine wood which had been partly dipped in sulphur, and a few glass tubes, and he obtained more sulphur and some chlorate.
