How To Use Hemlock In A Sentence
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Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
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I planted three hemlocks years ago to form a sight block from our driveway to our back yard.
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Other highlights include documenting great white pines, American sycamores, tulip trees, eastern cottonwoods, eastern hemlock, and other species.
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It was, of course, a poisonous plant, hemlock, that gave Athens its state poison, used for the execution of Socrates.
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Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
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The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
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We all know that Socrates chose the hemlock… his real reason was that he considered exile an amputation of self.
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When ordered to do so, he obediently drank a cup of poisonous hemlock and calmly died, having declared that he did not fear death since he could not know it to be an evil.
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Cryic soils support mixed coniferous forests dominated by mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, and Pacific silver fir; they are colder than the mesic and frigid soils of the Southern Cascades (4f).
Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
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The hemlock of the title refers to the evergreen tree, rather than to the poisonous herb that was the means of Socrates' forced suicide.
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Was he telling her that he'd been poisoned by poison hemlock?
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The usual verdure of the hemlock is very dark and glossy, lying in double rows flat upon the branches.
Rural Hours
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Around the house grows the thick hemlock and spruce forest that has brought more recent income to the tribe.
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The balsam is a beautiful tree; though not aspiring to the dignity of the pine and hemlock, it shoots up in the most perfect and gradual spire-like form, to a height of thirty or forty feet, remarkable for its elegance; the foliage is very rich in color and quantity.
Rural Hours
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When I arrive, I pitch my tent at the best of the 30 secluded spots: a little clearing by a bend in bubbling Long Creek hidden behind a grove of hemlocks and poplars - and a five-minute walk through the woods to the restaurant and lodge.
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The leaf of the hemlock is the only one that has a distinct leaf-stalk.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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I gave her hemlock which can kill a daemon or a man.
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Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher.
The Piazza Tales
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Over the ledge lies an Atlantic of vapor without sail or shore, and through the hemlocks on North mountain the wind brattles like a hurricane.
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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Flying ointment made from mugwort in a carrier oil may be safer, but it is not just as good as one made from hemlock, belladonna, and other baneful herbs carefully mixed and applied.
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The hemlock woolly adelgid, an insect introduced from Asia in 1924, is killing eastern hemlocks throughout the eastern United States.
Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
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While hiking in Shenandoah National Park recently I was struck not by the number of families in an old-growth hemlock grove called the Limberlost, but by their obliviousness to the dead and dying trees around them.
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And, looking upward, there were the dark tops of the evergreen trees, such as hemlocks, pines, and spruces, starred and bespangled, as if wetted with a great rain of molten crystal.
Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
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Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
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In the southern Blue Ridge, the chestnut was replaced largely by oaks and hickories, and also by yellow-poplar, maple, hemlock, and other species, depending on local conditions.
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An ingenious murderess decides to soak the blotter on her husband’s desk in hemlock, so he will be gradually poisoned as the hemlock leaches out and into his hands whenever he works late into the night. hemlock/Shakespeare
What’s My Name Again?
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Replacing them are an interesting collection of specimen trees, including Sargent's weeping hemlock (Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula'); weeping larch (Larix decidua 'Pendula'); lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana); and umbrella pine (P. pinea).
Post-gazette.com - News
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`We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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For example, when hemlocks are completely infested with woolly adelgid, homeowners should get rid of the plant so they don't have to continually spray.
Prime time to tame overgrown lawns
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Once the hemlock cores were measured, cross-dating was verified.
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There are huge Douglas firs, cedars, and hemlocks behind us, and cougars come down to the lake to drink.
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Take of 95 percent alcohol 2 quarts, and add to it the following articles: oils of sarsafras and hemlock, spirits of turpentine, balsam of fir, chloriform, tincture of catechu and guaiacum, of each 1 oz., oil of origanum 2 oz., oil of wintergreen 1/2 oz., and gum of camphor 1/2 oz.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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The sun shone through the trees - red firs, junipers, lodgepole pines, aspens, and mountain hemlocks.
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The flower stems are very hollow and dry, nearly as much so as the hemlock or kex, and I have found that when flowers have been cut, either from the moisture collecting in the stem, or some such cause, rot sets in lower down, and soon the branches of bloom head over.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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As I approached where our driveway should be, I was overcome with my bodily need to be home: to be safe from this insanity, to be under the hemlocks with my family where I could calm my heart and catch my breath and sooth my animal body.
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It disappears among desiccating reeds and old hemlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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She seemed to remember some important person being poisoned with hemlock.
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His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist.
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In the native forests of the Oregon Cascades hemlocks, cedars, maples, many fir and pine species, and others are intermingled among the dominant Douglas fir.
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Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
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Those intrusions of the world outside awaken me from my soporific slumber, as I dwell in drowsy numbness, as though of hemlock I have drunk.
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What a difference a week makes just now, verges frothy with cow parsley and hemlock, hillsides painted yellow with colza.
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Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world once more, shrouds remains of January thaw: butts, bits of Styrofoam cups, the black-hoofed leg bone of a deer, dragged home again and again and again by our dog; the same bone I heave into the hemlocks each time I go for wood.
February
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But pines, spruces, hemlocks and most other evergreens tend to become giants over time, outgrowing their spaces.
Tough Love, Garden Style
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Range: The hemlock is a northern tree, growing in Canada and the United
Studies of Trees
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Is it the case that this relatively humane practice, the administration of hemlock, is what allows Socrates to consider that his death is not the highest price, that the highest price is the committing of an injustice?
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Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur.
The Yosemite National Park
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This kind of hemlock is also abundant along the coast of British Columbia and in the Selkirk Mountains along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Forest Wealth of Canada
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This restored forest would be dominated by long-lived, shade tolerant species like sugar maple, yellow birch, hemlock, white pine and red spruce.
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You can also use a combination of materials, such as an oak handrail and oak treads combined with painted hemlock balusters.
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If attacked by parasitic flies that lay eggs in their bodies, they switch to a diet of poisonous hemlocks.
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In this one, a vicar dies of hemlock poisoning after having a meal at the home of a New Age herbalist in a very rural Lancashire village.
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Seasonal patterns in the rates of photosynthesis were similar in shaded partridgeberry and eastern hemlock.
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Lilacs, Canada anemone, orange hawkweed, blue-eyed grass, wild sarsaparilla, coralroot orchid in cedar-hemlock woods, hundreds of jack-in-the-pulpits along Hidden Bluff Trail.
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Do you have access to lily of the valley, oleander, yew, monkshood, hemlock?
NAKED EMPIRE
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When a man set out to build a tannery, he used to go into the woods where he could be sure of enough oak trees to supply him for many years with the bark from which tannin is made; but it has been found that the bark of several other kinds of trees, such as larch, chestnut, spruce, pine, and hemlock, will tan as well as that of oak.
Makers of Many Things
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Through rare elements like black hemlock extract and the smell of raw opium, with tuberose absolute, tonka bean, treemoss and animalistic notes like synthetic castoreum and cistus ladanum you get the lingering impression of warm and radiant flesh.
Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion
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If redwood is not an option where you live, use similarly rot-resistant eastern or western red cedar, inexpensive hemlock, or consider the ersatz wood planks made of recycled plastic.
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Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
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Out back of the house, oak, hemlock and cedar trees crown a path toward a 30-acre lake stocked with largemouth bass, yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish, and more.
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The whole point of ancient Greek philosophy was to ascend from the cave of ancient Greek nomos to physis, which is why Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
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There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea, such as Beren fought in the Mountains of Terror in Doriath, and so came to Lúthien upon the green sward amid the hemlocks in the moonlight long ago.
The Lord of the Rings
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The woods near our home were thick with walnut, white oak, sweet birch, sassafras, hemlock, red maple, juniper, tulip trees, and many more species I couldn't name.
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The poisonous hemlocks are two, one of which, the common hemlock, is said to have been the plant from which the Athenians prepared their poison for executing citizens condemned to death; and the other, the water-hemlock, or cowbane, is particularly deadly when eaten by cattle, to which it is fatal in a very few hours.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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Just before drinking the hemlock Socrates makes a wonderful joke.
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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 Amateur Garden
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Another trail gives skiers a beautiful tour on rolling terrain through maple and hemlock forest to a lookout on the Salmon River Reservoir.
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This last amusement soon grew quite absorbing, and her "cubby," as she called it, rapidly became a pretty grotto, where she lived like a little mermaid, daily loving more and more the beauty of the wonderful sea, Finding the boat too sunny at times, the boys cut long willow boughs and arched them over the seats, laying hemlock branches across till a green roof made it cool and shady inside.
Jack And Jill
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The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
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The Upas-tiente derives its energetic powers from the alkaloid strychnia; conia is the active principle of hemlock; veratria of hellebore; aconita of monk's hood; and although there are several poisonous plants in which the active principle has not yet been detected, there can be little doubt that such a principle exists, although it has hitherto eluded the researches of the chemist.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The floor of the house was strewn with fresh hemlock boughs, bunches of showy wild flowers adorned the walls, and the hearth was filled with huckleberry branches and epilobium.
Travels in Alaska
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'ache' refer not to the harmless water parsnip but to the poisonous water hemlock or cowbane.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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Here lie the remains of Rudolph's winter camp, a collection of small living stations scattered over an acre of terrain, camouflaged by patches of hemlock and laurel.
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The principal forest-trees are hemlock, spruce, and Nootka cypress, with a few pines (P. contorta) on the margin of the meadow, some of them nearly a hundred feet high, draped with gray usnea, the bark also gray with scale lichens.
Travels in Alaska
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His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist.
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No, no, they are not willing to drain that cup of hemlock.
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The forest stands characterized by steep slopes and high gradients supported the highest basal area of hemlock.
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In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.
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Beyond my kitchen's open windows were scarlet geraniums on the balcony; a background of pines, hemlocks and larches in the garden; blue sky; bees buzzing lazily among the flowers.
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And hemlocks are being killed by an organism called woolly adelgid, not woody adelgid.
Environment: Troubled Time for Trees
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Robert Boyle, the seventeenth century scientist, thought walking about on hemlock leaves all day was a fantastic way to cure the kittens.
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In the ‘Phaedo’, Socrates prepares to drink the hemlock.
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Hunters and trappers described fertile meadows and hills forested with white pine, birch, beech, maple, and hemlock.
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Hemlock trees love cool, running brooks and rivers; there's hardly a ravine anywhere in the East that isn't clothed with hemlocks.
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Fluffy white layers drape the branches of maples and hemlocks overhanging the road and the frozen creek running beside it.
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Did anyone ever say, ‘Socrates, hemlock is poison’?
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Hemlock, hellbane, fox glove, and nightshade as well as other dangerous and poisonous herbs rested in dried, fresh, and powdered form next to those very jars.
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Police want to identify areas where the western hemlock (tsuga heterophylla) and the birch tree grow together and York council staff have offered to help identify locations.
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In severe winter weather turkeys will frequent conifer stands such as hemlock, spruce, and pines where the temperature and wind are more tolerable.
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Add glyphosate for effective control of common chickweed, wild carrot, poison hemlock, cressleaf groundsel, and dense populations of dandelion.
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There are various recipes for dwale from the Middle Ages, and I think they generally feature hemlock, henbane, opium and various other ingredients.
Early medieval surgical knowledge
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She frantically searched thorough her herb bags, looking for her hemlock.
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The new growth of pollarded curly or corkscrew willow, Salix matsudana is pleasing against the dark green background of the Hemlocks.
Twiggy « Fairegarden
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The plan is to reduce the danger posed by hazardous hemlock trees which grow in abundance on the North Shore.
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Just two pests — hemlock woolly adelgid and Asian long-horned beetle — could virtually destroy old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests in wilderness areas, creating an abundance of fuel and coarse woody debris.
Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
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Centered behind the soggy seated bench is a stand of hemlocks, Tsuga canadensis with chartruese new growth framing Cotinus coggygria.
Follow The Foliage « Fairegarden
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‘I think some of the hemlocks can grow to heights of 150 feet,’ she said.
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The herb is not described in the ballad, but it could well have been hemlock, since it has been used for herbal abortions.
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Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn.
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In moister valleys, ravines, and on steep, lower, north-facing diabase ridges, hemlock-mixed hardwood forests are native.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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They passed through stands of red cedar and hemlock trees so tall and so ancient that the sunlight rarely touched the forest floor.
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Many of the needle evergreens including yew, arborvitae, hemlock, and incense cedar make fine hedges.
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You can see patches of dead hemlocks, probably killed by the wooly adelgid, which is infesting so many of our forests.
The Killing Hour
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They are the tap roots of a plant in the umbelliferae family which includes parsley, cow parsley and hemlock.
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Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
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Nietzsche has no doubts that the corrupting influence on him was Socrates, fully deserving his hemlock not for his power over the youth of Athens, but over what might have been its continuing tragic greatness.
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Emerald ash borer, the little bugs killing all the hemlocks in the Smokies, anything at Walmart ........ does anything good come from imports from the East??
Flying Carp & Broken Jaws
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She loves ascending into the canopies of giant Sitka Spruces, Western Hemlocks and Western Red Cedars to collect insects and epiphytic lichens.
Contributor: Caitlin McDonough
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B. -- The bruised hemlock seed is treated in a vacuum extractor with water acidulated with acetic acid, and the extract evaporated in vacuo to a sirupy consistence.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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The introduction of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), hemlock wooly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), balsam wooly-adelgid (A. piceae), as well as dogwood anthracnost fungi is altering the forest composition and habitat composition.
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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A few of us, goes on the revered hemlock-bibber, desire naught else in life but to become the Encyclopaedia Britannica - and sit complete, bound in ebony, on a shelf.
On Being a Philosopher
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Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock.
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Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
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Young trees are frequently found growing upon these forest ruins; if a giant pine or oak has been levelled by some storm, the mass of matted roots and earth will stand upright for years in the same position into which it was raised by the falling trunk, and occasionally a good-sized hemlock, or pine, or beech, is seen growing from the summit of the mass, which in itself is perhaps ten or twelve feet high.
Rural Hours
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Rusty Rhea sighs wistfully as he talks about the beauty and peace of standing amid a grove of deep green hemlocks in Appalachia, some of them up to 160 feet tall and more than 500 years old.
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Out back of the house, oak, hemlock and cedar trees crown a path toward a 30-acre lake stocked with largemouth bass, yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish, and more.
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I had it down to three before we left the showroom, then down to two, and it was just a matter of holding them up against the house and deciding that yes, the putty colour was too dull and the hemlock (lightish green, sagey with a touch of blue) wuld indeed go with pretty much any colour I'd want to paint anyhow.
State of the Stress Level Address
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Then the warriors, returning, gave proof that they had indeed done something more than kick the wind, for they were covered with blood, and their legs were stuck full of large pines, with here and there an oak or hemlock, for the fight had been in a forest; so that they had been as much troubled as men would be with thistles, nettles, and pine splinters, which is truly often a great trouble.
Algonquin Legends of New England
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It would take us through virgin stands of maples and Eastern Hemlock, about 40 acres of untouched sugarbush once owned by the Nourse family, to a historic log cabin deep in the forest that is still used today to make maple syrup.
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The hemlock spruce is a very common tree in this part of the country, and an imposing evergreen, ranking in height with the tallest oaks, and ashes, and elms of the forest.
Rural Hours
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We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
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Particularly in northern regions, evergreens such as hemlocks, pines, spruces, and junipers provide essential protection, as well as seed crops and nesting sites.
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On the same kind of analogy, a German doctor has introduced hemlock and other poisons, as specifics, into the materia medica. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Like Homo sapiens, animals take important cues from smell and know to stay away from flowers like the dreaded Douglas water hemlock, whose broad white blossoms contain coniine, which is deadly.
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Just a few hours from Portland, Ore., or Seattle, you can stroll through the lush foliage of ferns and wildflowers, beneath ancient spruce, hemlock and cedar trees.
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Many of the needle evergreens including yew, arborvitae, hemlock, and incense cedar make fine hedges.
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Where and animal species, rare species are pine, Guangdong, South China hemlock, boxwood and other pearls.
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Accepting the hemlock rather than submitting to exile, Socrates proved that he shared both the mission and the ‘final destiny of the prophets and the righteous.’
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Other alkaloids that have been identified in hemlock are methyl coniine, ethyl piperidine and pseudoconhydrine.
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Some other wildflowers are white-flowered bog orchid, California grass-of-Parnassus, Sierra gentian, Plumas alpine aster, western sneezeweed, and the highly toxic western water hemlock.
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He has special ordered hemlock from a lumber yard 100 miles away.
Bill Heavey's Deer Diary: Come Hell or Home Improvement
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'It is entirely free from the stiffness of the pines, and to the spiry top of the poplar it unites the airy lightness of the hemlock.
Among the Trees at Elmridge
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Condemned to die, he drank poison hemlock with noble calm and courage.
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The sun shone through the trees - red firs, junipers, lodgepole pines, aspens, and mountain hemlocks.
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There was no asp, and no other evidence of suicide beyond the presence of three dead or dying women - no cup of hemlock, no dagger, no poisoned comb.
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Out back of the house, oak, hemlock and cedar trees crown a path toward a 30-acre lake stocked with largemouth bass, yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish, and more.
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If redwood is not an option where you live, use similarly rot-resistant eastern or western red cedar, inexpensive hemlock, or consider the ersatz wood planks made of recycled plastic.
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In Washington, they are typically found in lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock, subalpine fir, whitebark pine, and Engleman spruce.
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I need to plant two hemlocks that are seven feet tall, I was wondering if I should untie the burlap sack or just leave it tied on to decompose.
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Other alkaloids include strychnine, nicotine, morphine, mescaline, and emetine (the deadly ingredient in hemlock).
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Eventually, dwarf mistletoe plants steal enough water, minerals, and nutrients to kill the ponderosa and lodgepole pines, Douglas-firs, western larches, and western hemlocks they attack.
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Hemlock is one of nature's oldest and most deadly poisons.
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Within 20 yards is the first little info board under a Lodge Pole pine, and I learned ‘North American Indians’ propped up their wigwams with these, and so on for Spruce, Western Hemlock etc.
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And we ought to retain the invincible green of cedars, junipers and box, cypress, laurel, hemlock spruce and cloaking ivy, darkling amid and above these, receiving from and giving to them a cheer which neither could have in their frostbound Eden without mutual contrast.
The Amateur Garden
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Another: - Having pounded the seed of hemlock, pour on it a fragrant white wine, and then apply in a tepid state as a cataplasm.
On Fistulae
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Beyond Hemlock Cove he saw the Constantine and its stranded bulk.
THE MAIN CAGES
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It's called the wooly adelgid. it's a sap sucking insect that feeds only on hemlock shrubs.
Undefined
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Beyond my kitchen's open windows were scarlet geraniums on the balcony; a background of pines, hemlocks and larches in the garden; blue sky; bees buzzing lazily among the flowers.
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Socrates was condemned to death (poisoned by hemlock, so the legend goes) after his ‘Apologia’.
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Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn.
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It disappears among desiccating reeds and old hemlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, when hemlocks are completely infested with woolly adelgid, homeowners should get rid of the plant so they don't have to continually spray.
Prime time to tame overgrown lawns
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As soon as the water begins to boil the would-be lycanthropist must throw into it handfuls of any three of the following substances: Asafoetida, parsley, opium, hemlock, henbane, saffron, aloe, poppy-seed and solanum; repeating as he does so these words: --
Werwolves
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The common name for water hemlock is the cowbane.’
Spotted Hemlock
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But in the autumn, a bizarre murder by hemlock plunges the family into disarray.
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Angelica is an umbellifer, like carrot, pignut and hemlock.
Coffee Fads « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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`We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Fir, hemlock and Douglas fir are also sometimes planted.
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I think the hemlock is taking affect on Bill already.
Puff This!
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As far as war games go, the company has raised the bar so high other developers must be reaching for the hemlock.
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The herb was celebrated by the ancient Greeks as an antidote for hemlock poisoning.
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As far as we know she was poisoned by conium, which is one of the oldest, simplest forms known to man, and is simply another name for hemlock.
Police at the Funeral
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The hoary trunks of the ashes are particularly fine in such situations; they are the lightest in coloring among our larger trees, as the shaft of the hemlocks is the darkest.
Rural Hours
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Our land is very flat, so I deliberately divided it up with hemlock, boxwood, and yew hedges.
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However, some researchers have suggested ultimate dominance by maple or maple and basswood, and the successional trend from hardwood to hemlock is not apparent in all plots in this study.
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Field & Stream
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I am watching for the insect, wooly adelgid, that has damaged so many of the native hemlocks in the forests.
Bark « Fairegarden
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Lower peaks such as Lincoln Mountain, Gold Hill and Hemlock Ridge, all with groomed swaths and moguled canyons, stretch 6.5 miles in width.
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And hemlocks are being killed by an organism called woolly adelgid, not woody adelgid.
Letters to the Magazine
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The company's winter logging consists of the second growth mix of fir, hemlock and red cedar that Christensen is harvesting.
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In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.
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The infirmarian claims Spurrier was killed by a strong infusion of hemlock.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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I try to think of all the Audubon birds I know and list them in my head: Painted bunting, swallow-tailed hawk, great cinereous owl, whip-poor-will, the hemlock warbler...
The Memory Palace
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He swallowed this rough inhospitality, which is the hemlock that poisons country faith.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
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Except for a few looming hemlocks, the forest is mostly hardwoods, and the light streams through the thinning tops of the taller oaks and basswoods.
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Things finally got so bad in Athens the state coffers were so empty that prisoners sentenced to death had to pay for the hemlock with which they were to be killed.
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However, we did not see the same gap in smaller size classes with hemlock, a species that can be used as winter browse by deer in areas with high deer densities.
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The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
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Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock
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This is drunk warm out of small earthenware cups or chilled depending on the season, and in my experience the hot stuff numbs your senses like hemlock.
