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But instead he was chosen to be a collector to bring back seed of the dove-tree,Davidia involucrata, and worked at the Coombe Wood nursery of (Sir) Harry Veitch [q.v.], before leaving for China in 1899.

Among the other trees are maples, acers, styrax, eucryphia, Pocket Handkerchief Tree davidia involucrata and a fine example of the Snowdrop Tree Halesia.

Some are very old, including an ancient pear tree and a black mulberry reputed to have been planted in the time of James I. The flowering trees include a pair of tall limes, crab apples, a foxglove tree and a pocket handkerchief tree.

Glenville contains many sites of historical interest including a Famine Walk, a Mass Rock dating back to penal times as well as a Manor House and estate giving home to many exotic and rare plant species such as the pocket handkerchief tree and marvellous rhododendrons.

She could never get to the safety of the ghost trees in time.

He came running out of the ghost trees, all his cold impassiveness gone.

The last of the vines disintegrated and the ghost tree forest lay before them.

A very good looking Indian ghost tree (kullu) can also be seen in the dense forest.

And walked with jarring impact into the knobby elbow of a ghost tree limb.

Ghost Tree: A once much larger tree, but still a great sight to see.

At Ghost Trees, the waves move so fast that paddling to catch them is essentially impossible.

He ran toward the firing line, taking advantage of the concealing afforded by the first fringe of ghost trees.

Ghost Trees, he said, was such a newly recognized spot that it was unlikely to be included so late in the rules-making process.

Then he saw the stump of the ghosted tree, the one that the radiator had destroyed but whose upper structure remained as a shadow outline.

Pale gray ghost trees, with knobby, twisted limbs, grew thickly among the cloud trees.

Ghost Tree is a famed big wave surfing location off Pebble Beach, California.

The ghost trees grew thinner as they went up the mountain's slope, and the blue-green fernlike trees of the tiger forest began to appear.

When they came to the first ghost trees and the dwindling of the tiger trees, Hunter thought it safe to walk slower and talk to her.

The same thing has been done before, of course, with other sorts of ghost trees, boles and logs resurrected from Scandinavian bogs after their long sleeps.

Another interesting tree in this grove is the General Lee Tree, also known as the Ghost Tree.

Pescadero Point is the site of the "Ghost Tree", a landmark Monterey Cypress tree.

Then three winters ago, a crew from Santa Cruz, Calif., using personal watercraft, first towed into huge Ghost Trees waves.

Is Big Wednesday at Ghost Tree the XXL Awards winner?

Standing on the breezy bluff above Ghost Trees, Curry, now a personal fitness trainer, pointed to the giant rock outcroppings that await surfers who crash.

Ken Collins, a 37-year-old professional surfer from Santa Cruz, was one of the targets of Curry's jealousy, having been a Ghost Trees pioneer.

Pushed in by a massive late-season ocean storm, huge waves marched across a boulder-strewn reef nicknamed Ghost Trees, just off the 18th hole of the Pebble Beach golf course.

Ghost Trees, Collins said, rivaled anything at Mavericks or Jaws, a crowded, dangerous tow-surfing spot he had ridden two days earlier on Maui's north coast in Hawaii.

At Ghost Trees and Jaws, the waves are so big and fast that rather than paddling to catch them, the surfers are towed onto them with the help of jet skis.

At its lower end the ghost tree forest began, dense and concealing-but all down the length of the swale the snarevines lay in thick, viciously barbed entanglements, overlying a bed of sharp rocks and boulders.

They includes roses, berberis, cotoneasters, sorbus, the Handkerchief Tree (Davidia involucrata).

Alongside the Bridge is a fine specimen of the Handkerchief Tree 'Davidia Involucrata var.

Thus, the Handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata) was discovered by Père David in 1869 but introduced to Britain by Ernest Wilson in 1901.

Among the other trees are maples, acers, styrax, eucryphia, Pocket Handkerchief Tree davidia involucrata and a fine example of the Snowdrop Tree Halesia.

A few years ago, it was Rhododendron "Russautinii," with blossoms of the deepest, richest blue you can imagine, and the highly improbable handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata), laden with snowy bracts.