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They could hear from somewhere on the margin the purl of a weir, and around were clumps of shrubs, araucarias and deodars being the commonest.
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The groom opening a pair of decorative iron gates which were the showpiece of the neighbourhood, Mahony turned in and drove past exotic firs, Moreton Bay fig-trees and araucarias; past cherished
Australia Felix 2003
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Dusky fir-trees, groups of Australian araucarias, and
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid
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_Araucaria_ -- The several araucarias should be much more widely known than they are.
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The orchard of Pepita is no longer an orchard, but a most enchanting garden, with its araucarias and Indian figs, which grow here in the open air, and its well-arranged though small hothouse, full of rare plants.
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Tight beds of geranium, calceolaria, and lobelia speckled the glass-plat, from whose centre rose one of the finest araucarias (its other name by the way is "monkey-puzzler"), that it has ever been my lot to see.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They could hear from somewhere on the margin the purl of a weir, and around were clumps of shrubs, araucarias and deodars being the commonest.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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He planted long avenues of the rarest and finest trees, araucarias, Scotch firs, oaks, beeches, cedars of Lebanon; laid out miles of the most varied and delightful drives, and built the most extensive conservatories in Ireland.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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The tree-ferns -- the chamaerops, the pandanus, the araucarias -- are modern representatives of past types.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The view which I should have looked at as perhaps most probable (though it hardly differs from yours) is that the whole world during the Secondary ages was inhabited by marsupials, araucarias
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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