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BOXWOOD , the See also:wood obtained from the genus Buxus, the See also:principal See also:species being the well-known See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree or See also:shrub, B. sempervirens, the See also:common See also:box, in See also:general use for See also:borders of See also:garden walks, ornamental parterres, &c. The other source of the See also:ordinary boxwood of See also:commerce is B. balearica, which yields the variety known as See also:Turkey boxwood. The common box is grown throughout See also:Great See also:Britain (perhaps native in the See also:chalk-hills of the See also:south of See also:England), in the See also:southern See also:part of the See also:European See also:continent generally, and extends through See also:Persia into See also:India, where it is found growing on the slopes of the western Himalayas. There has been much discussion as to whether it is a true native of Britain. See also:Writing more than 200 years ago, See also:John See also:Ray, the author of the important Historia Plantarum, says, " The Box grows See also:wild on Boxhill, hence the name; also at Boxwell, on the Cotteswold Hills in See also:Gloucestershire, and at Boxley in See also:Kent. .. . It grows plentifully on the chalk hills near See also:Dunstable." On the other See also:hand the box is not wild in the Channel Islands, and in the See also:north of See also:France, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Belgium is found mainly in hedge-rows and near cultivation, and it may have been one of the many introductions owed to the See also:Romans. Only a very small proportion of the wood suitable for See also:industrial uses is now obtained in Great Britain. The box is a very slow-growing plant, adding not more than 12 or 2 in. to its See also:diameter in twenty years, and on an See also:average attaining only a height of 16 ft., with a mean diameter of 1o2 in. The leaves of this species are small, See also:oval, leathery in texture and of a deep glossy See also:green See also:colour: B. balearica is a tree of consider-able See also:size, attaining to a height of 8o ft., with leaves three times larger than those of the common box. It is a native of the islands of the Mediterranean, and grows in Turkey, See also:Asia See also:Minor, and around the shores of the See also:Black Ssea, and is supposed to be the See also:chief source of the boxwood which comes into European commerce by way of See also:Constantinople. The wood of both species possesses a delicate yellow colour; it is very dense in structure and has a See also:fine See also:uniform See also:grain, which has given it unique value for the purposes of the wood-engraver.
A large amount is used in the manufacture of measuring rules, various mathematical See also:instruments, flutes and other musical instruments, as well as for turning into many minor articles, and for See also:inlaying, and it is a favourite wood for small carvings. The use of boxwood for turnery and musical instruments is mentioned by See also:Pliny, See also:Virgil and See also:Ovid.
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