| Trees for Everyone - Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year Contributor(s): Rogers, Julia Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1312920939 ISBN-13: 9781312920934 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - House & Home |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 190 pages |
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| Publisher Description: It was late April when I came by. As I looked up into that tree top the sunlight was shining through, and at first I thought I must be dreaming. Instead of buds, I saw what seemed like lighted candles, each with a silken frill, like the recurved petals of an iris, below the tip of flame I had never seen a tree thus illuminated, and the sight was enchanting. The warm spring air had brought out the hickory buds, with those of other trees, and while I was looking for flowers on the ground, the buds above had swollen, cast off the winter covers, revealing the silky inner wrappings of the young shoots. The rich downward-curving "petals" were only the inner scales of the great buds, grown long and wide, their vivid orange setting off the compact yellow buds that still stood erect... I had never seen a hickory tree opening its iris-like buds before, but I have never missed it since. From Chapter 1] |