The British Sylva, and Planters' and Foresters' Manual

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S.P.C.K., 1851 - Forests and forestry - 203 pages
 

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Page 33 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Page 195 - ... transplantation of grown trees belongs to the fine arts rather than those which have had direct and simple utility for their object, and that the return is to be expected rather in pleasure than in actual profit : ' Value, no doubt, every proprietor acquires, when he converts a bare and unsightly common into a clothed, sheltered, and richly ornamented park. But, excepting in the article of shelter, he has no more immediate value than the purchaser of a picture.
Page 175 - ... met, six years after these changes, his former tenant on the ground, and said to him, " I suppose, Mr. R , you will say I have ruined your farm by laying half of it into woodland ! " "I should have expected it, sir,
Page 21 - The perfect developement of a plant, according to this view, is dependent on the presence of alkalies or alkaline earths ; for when these substances are totally wanting its growth will be arrested, and when they are only deficient it must be impeded. In order to apply these remarks, let us compare two kinds of trees, the wood of which contains unequal quantities of alkaline bases, and we shall find that one of these grows luxuriantly in several soils upon which the others are scarcely able to vegetate....
Page 188 - Several, which had been transplanted some years since, were from thirty to forty feet high, or more. The girth of the largest was from five feet three to five feet eight inches, at a foot and a half from the ground. Other trees, which had been only six months transplanted, were from twenty to thirty feet high; and the gentlemen of the committee ascertained their girth to be about two feet and a half, or three feet, at eighteen inches from the ground.
Page 156 - ... as it certainly is, there are still many parts on the banks of the Thames, well suited to the propagation of this useful plant. ' Oziers are grown on so very small a scale, that it compels the basket-makers to hire suitable land, and plant it for their own use, which occupies their time when they would otherwise be employed in weaving baskets; and every means which they have yet been able to contrive, is insufficient to supply a quarter of their wants. They would willingly pay a high price for...
Page 188 - Their branches were quite entire, and they stood firm and erect, without prop or support. The only difference that the most accurate eye could discover, between these trees and others long since planted, seemed to be, that their leaves were somewhat smaller — a distinction which, as we observed in other instances, usually disappears after the first, but always after the second season. In viewing these specimens of an art, of the power of which we had formed no adequate conception, the following...
Page 175 - I am looking for land at present, if you incline to take, for the remaining sixty acres, the same rent which I formerly gave for a hundred and twenty, I will give you an offer to that amount. I consider the benefit of the enclosing, and the complete shelter afforded to the fields, as an advantage which fairly counterbalances the loss of one half of the land.
Page 155 - This work is very easily done, without using even a dibble or setting-stick ; but when planted, Care must be taken, by hoeing, to keep them as free from weeds as possible ; or, if the ground be too wet for the hoe, a weeding-hook may be used to keep them down : this is absolutely necessary to ensure a good plantation. It is also equally necessary to keep the ground well drained, to prevent the tides remaining upon it any considerable time, for on that also depends the firmness and good quality of...
Page 155 - The willows are cut the first year with a bill-hook ; " the shoots are cut off close to the stock, and bound up " in bundles, or boults, as they are called, which measure " forty-two inches round, at sixteen inches above the butt

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