The woods and by-ways of New England

By

Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, J.R. Osgood, [1872]

Notes

Contents: Domestic scenery of New England. -- The primitive forest. -- The ash. -- Animals of the primitive forest. -- The azalea, or swamp honeysuckle. -- The Canadian rhodora. -- The pastoral and romantic. -- The willow. -- Rotation and distribution. -- The weeping willow. -- Vernal wood-scenery. -- The horse-chestnut. -- The catalpa. -- Forms and expression of trees. -- The lilac. -- The barberry. -- The Missouri currant. -- The ceanothus, or Jersey tea. -- Foliage. -- The tupelo. -- The hornbeam. -- The hop hornbeam. -- Insecurity of our forests. -- Orchard trees. -- Wayside shrubbery. -- The American elm. -- The English elm. -- Odors of vegetation. -- The cherry-tree. -- The dreary and desolate. -- The snowy mespilus. -- The chokeberry. -- The mountain ash. -- Relations of trees to water. -- The linden tree. -- Old orchards. -- The kalmia. -- Motions of trees. -- The tulip-tree. -- The magnolia. -- The picturesque. -- The locust. -- Relations of trees to the atmosphere. -- The holly. -- The spiræa. -- The hardhack. -- The hawthorn. -- Summer wood-scenery. -- The oak. -- Trees in assemblages. -- The white oak and other species. -- Homeliness of nature. -- The laurel. -- Clipped hedge-row. -- Trees as electric agents. -- The ground laurel. -- The bearberry. -- The checkerberry. -- Lily-ponds. -- The beech. -- The rustic lane and woodside. -- The chestnut. -- The sentiment of antiquity. -- The hickory. -- Relations of trees to temperature. -- The butternut. -- The black walnut. -- The whortleberry pasture. -- The hazel. -- The button-bush. -- The clethra. -- A summer night in the woods. -- The western plane. -- Beauty in nature. -- The myrtle. -- Relation of trees to the soil. -- The viburnum. -- Autumn woods. -- The cornel. -- Mountains. -- The sumach. -- The elder. -- Rudeness and simplicity. -- The heath. -- The andromeda. -- Trees for shade and salubrity. -- The rose. -- Wood-paths. -- The maple. -- The dark plains. -- The red maple. -- Seclusion and freedom. -- The white birch. -- The canoe birch. -- Relations of trees to birds and insects. -- The black or cherry birch. -- The yellow birch. -- The red birch. -- The Indian summer. -- The poplar. -- Sounds from trees. -- The Lombardy poplar. -- The trout-stream. -- The aspen. -- Relations of trees to poetry and fable. -- The alder. -- The witch-hazel. -- The ailantus. -- Spontaneity. -- Burning-bushes. -- The buckthorn. -- The privet. -- Wood-scenery in winter. -- The larch. -- The hemlock. -- Fine woods. -- The fir. -- Grandeur and sublimity. -- The spruce. -- Relations of trees to ornament. -- The northern cypress. -- The southern cypress. -- Thoreau. -- The juniper. -- The arbor-vitæ. -- The yew. -- Rural life in New England. -- The white pine. -- Agricultural progress. -- The pitch pine. -- Forest conservatories.

Subjects

New England , Trees

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.54025
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/05040105
OCLC: 1591409
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51423804