The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 274
r, is not the case ; for, on digging beside the horizontal trunk, several strong roots were found to have proceeded from the under portion of the stem, and these roots spread out many feet, at a few inches under the surface. In the other specimen [Jig. 90., to a scale of 1 in. to 12 ft.), roots… … growing at the Whim, in Peeblesshire. 253 cayed close to the uppermost arbo-rescent branch; no doubt, in con-sequence of their not being ableto turn upright: notwithstanding,however, the extremities of bothhave a tendency towards the up-right position. The spruce fir is capable ofbeing dressed with…
