The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 309
quite unique as askeleton; but, as with our common holly, it is an exceedingly worse on that account; they make such light and feathery phan-toms, so different from what you would expect from the thickleathery leaves on the tree. The smaller the leaf the greaterthe trouble ; but, believe me, I have… … LEAVES OF THE POPLAR, JUDAS 6YCAMOBE, ETC. ; CAMPANULA BELL. difficult task to accomplish, by reason of the many thornswhich arm the edges of their leaves. The skin is tough, and itclings so pertinaciously to each spike, that it is a matter formuch patience to remove the cuticle without breaking…
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