"Fast-growing" Quotes from Famous Books
... China, 1751. A handsome, fast-growing tree, with large pinnate leaves that are often fully three feet long, and terminal erect clusters of not very showy greenish-white flowers that exhale a rather disagreeable odour. It is one of the most distinct and imposing of pinnate-leaved trees, ... — Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster
... he has at once done a real service to missions, and has made a most valuable and interesting addition to the fast-growing ... — Children of Borneo • Edwin Herbert Gomes
... quarters and deep but light or sandy loam. With me it does well on a raised bed of light earth; its long tap roots will save it from drought during the driest summer, when its fleshy and fast-growing foliage would lead one to think that it could not endure a dry time. It is readily increased by division of the roots ... — Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood |