May's pen was better served by the camera and the zinc block than Leech's had been by end-grain boxwood and gravers, but the general language was the same.
The dwarf English boxwood, B. sempervirens, variety suffruticosa, is often used to edge walks in formal gardens.
In tropical America, Phyllostylon brasiliensis (San Domingo boxwood) has been suggested as a substitute for true boxwood (Buxus).
Buxales, the boxwood order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, comprising Buxaceae (90 120 species in five genera) and the small taxonomically contentious family Haptanthaceae (one species in one genus).
The nursery business is about equally divided between the production of (1) coniferous evergreens such as yew, juniper, spruce, and pine; (2) broad-leaved evergreens such as rhododendron, camellia, holly, and boxwood; (3) deciduous plants such as forsythia, viburnum, berberis, privet, lilac, and clematis; and (4) roses.
The design was transferred by a skilled carver to a cherry or boxwood block and carved in relief.
Made in Augsburg in 1566, it was decorated with boxwood carvings and outstanding pictorial marquetry.
Tops were known to the ancient Greeks, and the Romans constructed tops out of boxwood or terra-cotta.
Originally carved from boxwood, netsukes were first made in various kinds of ivory during the first half of the 18th century.
The Japanese boxwood (B. microphylla) and its varieties provide a wide range of ornamental shrubs.
The largest genus in Buxaceae is the widely cultivated Buxus (boxwood), with about 70 species.
