10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WYCH-HAZEL»
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When one has in charge a treasure which one values greatly and which if once made known one is pretty sure to lose I suppose the impulse of most men would be towards a hiding-place.
Anna Bartlett Warner, Susan Warner, 2008
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A Tourist's New England: Travel Fiction, 1820-1920
Susan and Anna Warner's The Gold of Chickaree is the sequel to Wych Hazel, a
novel whose plot rests on a rather strange family situation. Wych Hazel, an
orphaned heiress, has been officially "willed" to two guardians. The younger
guardian ...
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Silva: or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation ...
The wych hazel. This sort grows naturally in some of the northern counties of
England, where it is called Wych Hazel, from the resemblance that the young
shoots and leaves bear to those of Hazel. — It gTows to a tree of great magnitude
.
John Evelyn, Alexander Hunter, 1825
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Essays on Nature and Landscape
I had gathered a sprig of wych-hazel, and, waving it over the valley, determined
to make a trial of its well-established magical powers. No sooner had the forked
branch, garnished with its ragged yellow flowers, been waved to and fro, than ...
Susan Fenimore Cooper, Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, 2002
Mountain Elm (Ulmus rnontana), called wych-hazel, or wych-elm, in some parts
of England, and corrupted to "witch elm." The timber of this is sometimes
described as being inferior to that of the elm of the plains in closeness and
strength ; but ...
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in ...
Mountain Elm (TJlmus monlana), called wych-hazel, or wych-elm in some parts
of England, and corrupted to "witch elm." The timber of this is sometimes
described as being inferior to that of the elm of the plains in closeness and
strength ; but ...
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances Used in ...
Elm — Ulmus campestru. Mountain Elm ( Ulmus montana), called wych-hazel, or
wych-elm in some parts of England, and corrupted to "witch elm." The timber of
this is sometimes described as being inferior to that of the elm of the plains in ...
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A description and history of vegetable substances, used in ...
Mountain Elm (Ulmus montana), called wych-hazel, or wych-elm, in some parts of
England, and corrupted to "witch elm." The timber of this is sometimes described
as being inferior to that of the elm of the plains in closeness and strength ; but ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)., 1830
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Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views
These are the Ulmus campestris, or common elm tree, and the Ulmus montana,
the broad- leaved, or wych elm, or wych hazel. In the first of these the flowers are
crowded, and nearly sessile, whilst in the last mentioned tree the flowers are lax ...
William Gilpin, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, 1834
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The oddest English spellings, part 20: The letter “y”
Those who enjoy reading dictionaries will discover gyves, lychgate, lykewake, wych–elm (along with wych-hazel), and many other nice-looking words. They will ... «OUPblog, May 13»
