renewed every morning, and that in
such incredible profusion that the tree appears
silvered
over with
them, and the ground beneath covered with the fallen flowers.
William Wordsworth
--Ed.]
[Footnote B:
"The tall aspiring Gordonia lacianthus ... gradually changing colour,
from green to golden yellow, from that to a scarlet, from scarlet to
crimson, and lastly to a brownish purple, ... so that it may be said
to change and renew its garments every morning throughout the year."
See 'Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East Florida,
the Cherokee Country', etc., by William Bartram (1791), pp. 159,
160.--Ed.]
[Footnote C:
"Its thick foliage of a dark green colour is flowered over with large
milk-white, fragrant blossoms, ...
renewed every morning, and that in
such incredible profusion that the tree appears
silvered
over with
them, and the ground beneath covered with the fallen flowers.
It, at
the same time, continually pushes forth new twigs, with young buds on
them."
(Bartram's 'Travels', etc., p. 159.)--Ed.]
[Footnote D: Magnolia grandiflora.--W. W. 1800; and Bartram's 'Travels',
p. 8.--Ed.]
[Footnote E:
"The Cypressus distichia stands in the first order of North American
trees. Its majestic stature, lifting its cumbrous top towards the
skies, and casting a wide shade upon the ground, as a dark intervening
cloud," etc.
