The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc (1852)
London : John Cassell · leaf 273
held under its shade. It is of this tree that Evelyn j growth in one hundred and fifty years, and its age averages from (writing in the middle of the seventeenth century) says that it two hundred to three hundred years. The wood is not so white as was “set about with divers columns and monuments of… … THE BODY OF THE TREE. vhich several princes and noble persons have adorned, and Its greatest peculiarity, however, is the smallness of its leaves, ?hieh as so many pillars serve likewise to support the umbra- which are only from one inch and a half to two inches in breadth. ;eous and venerable…
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