Some work had been started many years ago, and a small number of trees were planted, mostly black walnut; but a site was selected which proved to be very cold and frosty, and most of the trees soon died.
Always numerous where box-trees were growing in the vicinity of water.
Shortly afterwards, on breaking through a low scrub, we crossed a ridge of sand, on which numerous Pine-trees were growing.
The gum-trees were no longer visible, but melaleucas, from fifteen to twenty feet high, lined its banks like a copse of young birch.
A number of native fig-trees were growing on this rock, and while Gibson was using the shovel, Mr. Tietkens went to get some for me, as he thought they might do me good.
We travelled directly towards them, and upon approaching, I found the rocks upheaved in a most singular manner, and a few gum-trees were visible at the foot of the ridge.
The tree or trees were found on a watercourse, or courses, near the head of the Warrego River, in Queensland.
It was estimated that 1,500 trees were levelled on the estate.
Trees were uprooted, stacks overturned, and many houses partially unroofed.
Some fruit-trees were still in blossom just below them, and the sunlight showering down from a blue sky brightened to silver the windings of the river, and to gold the budding leaves of the oak-trees.
The plane-trees were just at the height of their spotted beauty.
The old place looked much the same; but the apple-trees were stripped of fruit, and their leaves beginning to go yellow and fall.
A large number of trees were planted in pastures and elsewhere without adequate protection from livestock.
So in 1946, the farmers who had planted the trees were polled by mail for an overall evaluation of the plantings.
A long passage led us into a large patio (courtyard), in which orange-trees were growing.
The clear water of the river rolled over its yellow bed, and willows and lime-trees were reflected in it, as Rudy stepped along the path to the miller's house.
There again I was amazed to find how unstable and weak most trees were.
We were then in a region extraordinarily rich in rubber; quantities of Siphonia elastica trees were to be seen.
Fruit-trees were abundant, principally walnut, of which there were many magnificent trees.
In one of the villages a good many small juniper-trees were seen.
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