scaly bark

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"The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," he answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark. Now HERE" (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) "all is real, sweet, and pure."

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So they crossed them with the scaly bark melon that had the hide of a rhino, creating the Kolb's gem.

LOST AND FOUND: AN IMPASSIONED CRUSADER WHO RESEARCHES AND RECLAIMS SOUTHERN FOODWAYS' LOST FLAVORS, HISTORIAN DAVID SHIELDS EMBARKS ON A NEW PROBE: SPOTLIGHTING 175 UNSUNG CULINARY HEROES FROM AMERICA'S PAST

Our farm here in south central Illinois was somewhat smaller in comparison: 97 acres of mostly rugged yellow clay hills populated with large, old-growth white oak, scaly bark and smooth bark hickory trees.

Remembering the horse-drawn era

One of my favourite largish shrubs for November and December is Mahonia 'Charity,' its thick, upright growing stems can be relatively bare of leaves, which shows off their rough, scaly bark snaking upwards.

week in erddig; gardening

Even the bark and roots have value: The root's bright orange bark makes yellow dye, and the trunk's ridged and scaly bark furnishes tannin for making leather.

The Versatile Osage-Orange

The majority of the upland, however, supports extensive woodland, primarily juniper (Juniperus ashei), live oak (Quercus virginiana), hackberry (Celtis reticulata), cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia), and scaly bark oak (Quercus durandii).

Juniper was the dominant tree, both in number and in biomass, occupying 18.49 [cm.sup.2]/[m.sup.2], but was mixed with small (< 4 cm basal diameter) scaly bark oaks.

This area was dominated by a few mature junipers (17.67 [cm.sup.2]/[m.sup.2]) intermixed with many young cedar elms, ashes, and scaly bark oaks.

Habitat associations of the small-mammal community in the Grand Prairie of north-central Texas

The flowers and fruit vaguely resemble a cherry's, although this tree is neither sycamore nor ash nor cherry; indeed, the scaly bark and contorted limbs remind one more of some archaic reptile than of the pleasant shady comfort that we call a tree.

Gold, frankincense and myrrh

In the picture at right, the abnormal-looking, scaly bark is a sign that something is attacking the tree.

Central west garden guide

Large trees characteristically have scaly bark at their base.

Wood of the month: Pacific madrone

The scaly bark is very attractive, especially on older trees.

Chapter 11 Large trees

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