"Catkin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seedlings, both "male" and "female," I never found any pollen produced in flowers of the "female" trees, but nearly all "male" trees in the Tennessee Valley will have occasional catkins with one or more perfect flowers near their terminal ends (the basal flowers being staminate on the same catkin.) The functionally perfect flowers on such "male" trees have been observed to set from one to many pods in certain years, but such pods are generally small as compared with those borne on "female" trees in the same ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various
... bit of pure light and heat? Yes! he, too, has got a little home down in the swamp over there,—that bit of a knot on the young oak-sapling. Last year we found a nest (and brought it home) lined with the floss of willow-catkin, stuck all over with lichens, deep enough to secure the two pure round pearls from being thrown out, strongly fastened to the forked branch,—a home so snug, so warm, so soft!—a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... that time of spring when you felt so good you thought you could do most anything, except fly—I tried that once—so I went on. The air was cold for all the sun shone, the smell of catkin pollen, bursting buds, and the odour of earth steaming in the sun, was in every breath; the blackbirds were calling, and the doves; the ganders looked longingly at the sky and screamed a call to every passing wild flock, and Deams' ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... Camperdown elm, Care in selecting trees suitable for the soil, Carolina poplar, Carpinus caroliniana, Castanea dentata, Catalpa speciosa, Caterpillars, Caterpillars, leaf-eating, —, spraying for, Catkin, Cattle grazing in forests a source of injury, Cavities, fungous diseases attacking, — how caused, —, manner of filling, Cedar apple, —, white, Celtis occidentalis, Chamaecyparis thyoides, Character ...
— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison
... to business'; as men may, who have confidence in their ability to concentrate an instant attention upon the substantial. 'You dine with us. The usual Quartet: Peridon, Pempton, Colney, Yatt, or Catkin: Priscilla Graves and Nataly—the Rev. Septimus; Cormyn and his wife: Young Dudley Sowerby and I—flutes: he has precision, as naughty Fredi said, when some one spoke of expression. In the course of the evening, Lady Grace, perhaps: ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
