 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1881 - 794 σελίδες
...form a wide circle like an airy umbrella. In Birtram's Travels, page 181, is given a very animated description of this graceful tree. He adds : " It...perfectly straight, tapering stem to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, which is smooth and polished, of a bright ash color. Its perfectly spherical... | |
 | Julia Ellen Rogers - 1905 - 812 σελίδες
...passionflower family. The botanical explorer, William Bartram, wrote in 1790: "This admirable tree is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production I know of." The fruits are eaten raw, or made into conserves. The leaves are used by the Negroes as a substitute for... | |
 | Missouri Botanical Garden - 1927 - 516 σελίδες
...next spring, and so on for many years." Or take his description of the papaya: "This admirable tree is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production I know of; the towering Laurel Magnolia, the exalted Palm, indeed exceed it in grandeur and magnificence, but not in elegance, delicacy and... | |
 | William Bartram - 1928 - 424 σελίδες
...were ripe, as large, and of the form of a pear, and of a most charming appearance. This admirable tree is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production...elegance, delicacy, and gracefulness. \ It rises erect to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, with a perfectly straight tapering stem, which is smooth and... | |
 | William Bartram - 1955 - 470 σελίδες
...were ripe, as large, and of the form of a pear, and of a most charming appearance. This admirable tree is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production...Palm, indeed exceed it in grandeur and magnificence, bat not in elegance, delicacy, and gracefulness. It rises erect to the height of fifteen or twenty... | |
 | William Bartram - 1998 - 826 σελίδες
...ripe, as large, and of the form of a pear, and of a most charming appearance. This admirable tree, is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production...and gracefulness; it rises erect, with a perfectly strait tapering stem, to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, which is smooth and polished, of a bright... | |
 | Anthony N. Penna - 1999 - 324 σελίδες
...in sight, a tree that claimed my whole attention: it was the Carica papaya... . This admirable tree is certainly the most beautiful of any vegetable production I know of; the towering Laurel Magnolia, and the exalted Palm, indeed exceed it in grandeur and magnificence, but not in elegance, delicacy, and... | |
 | 1867 - 1310 σελίδες
...towards the summit of the stem, and form a wide circle like an airy umbrella. In Bartram's Transl. (page 131) is given a very animated and exact description...perfectly straight tapering stem to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, which is smooth and polished, of a bright ash color. Its perfectly spherical... | |
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And now appeared in sight a tree that claimed my whole attention: it was the Carica papaya, both male and female, which were in flower; and the latter both in flower and fruit, some of which were ripe, as large, and of the form of a pear, and of a most... 