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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American fir, the Tsuga Canadensis: so called from the resemblance of its branches in tenuity and position to the leaves of the common hemlock, Conium maculatum: commonly called simply hemlock. The bark is much used in tanning; combined with that of oak, it is thought to make the best leather. Leather tanned with the bark of hem lock alone has a red color, and is inferior. The Californian hemlock is Tsuga Mertensiana; that of the Southern States is T. Caroliniana. The ground-hemlock is the dwarf yew of eastern North America (Taxus baccata, var. Canadensis), a straggling bush with flat distichous leaves resembling those of the hemlock-spruce.
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“We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor-vitae in our tea.”
“The hemlock-spruce, as it is sometimes called, is, I think, the most beautiful of the family.”
“We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor-vitæ in our tea.”
“Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper.”
“The hemlock-spruce is slower of growth than the pines, but its wood is of very little value.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
“The oak lives longer than the pine, and the hemlock-spruce is perhaps equally long lived.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
“Abies Canadensis (hemlock-spruce), not abundant, some on the West Branch, and a little everywhere.”
“The fragrant carpet of cedar or hemlock-spruce sprigs strewn lightly over the earthen floor, was to them a luxury as great as if it had been taken from the looms of Persia or Turkey, so happy and contented were they in their ignorance.”
“Atkinson's is something more, and Felix Adler's hemlock-spruce, the maple of Anthony Hope Hawkins, L. Clark Seelye's English ash, Henry van”
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