The planter's guide; or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood |
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... species of composition . These things I sensibly regret , because I believe , that the Notes and Illustrations form the best part of the book , and will be found most useful to the general reader . In fact , there was no other way ...
... species of composition . These things I sensibly regret , because I believe , that the Notes and Illustrations form the best part of the book , and will be found most useful to the general reader . In fact , there was no other way ...
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... species . This is either formed alone into large masses , or it is in- termixed with Grove or Standard Trees , as circum- stances in either situation may require . By these means some of the most interesting objects , both agricultural ...
... species . This is either formed alone into large masses , or it is in- termixed with Grove or Standard Trees , as circum- stances in either situation may require . By these means some of the most interesting objects , both agricultural ...
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... species of skill , and a knowledge of the laws of Nature , to a much superior extent . On a subject like this , which is wholly new , but not the less interesting to the British planter , I would earnestly entreat the attention and ...
... species of skill , and a knowledge of the laws of Nature , to a much superior extent . On a subject like this , which is wholly new , but not the less interesting to the British planter , I would earnestly entreat the attention and ...
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... species , by means of the Transplanting Machine ; and exhibiting with- in itself a practical illustration of every principle laid down , and every theory held forth in this Es- say . The single Trees and Bushes , in groups and open ...
... species , by means of the Transplanting Machine ; and exhibiting with- in itself a practical illustration of every principle laid down , and every theory held forth in this Es- say . The single Trees and Bushes , in groups and open ...
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... species . At the Royal Gar- dens of Kew , during the reign of his late Majesty , this was done on a considerable scale , and with extraordinary success ; but I have not been able to obtain any detail of the process . About three years ...
... species . At the Royal Gar- dens of Kew , during the reign of his late Majesty , this was done on a considerable scale , and with extraordinary success ; but I have not been able to obtain any detail of the process . About three years ...
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ALLANTON appears Arboriculture bark beauty branches circumstances climate close plantations comminution compost consequence considerable dispositions of Wood earth Effect to Wood encreased Epidermis execution expense feet high former Geoponic girth giving Immediate Effect greater ground growth Highland Society important improvement inches ingenious judicious labour Landscape Gardening Large Trees lative less Lime lopping manner manure mass means method mould nearly neral NOTE nourishment Nursery Oaks object observed open dispositions open exposures operation park Peat perly phytologists Phytology planter pole possess practice prepared principles probably proper proportion Protecting Properties purpose render respect seems shelter shoot side single Trees situation soil sort species stem subjects subsoil success sufficient supply surface Taproot taste Theophrastus theory thick thing tion Trans Transplanting Machine Trees trenching ture Underwood Vegetable Physiology vigour wheels whole wind woody plants workmen Younger Seneca
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Page 399 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 398 - But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error under pendant shades...
Page 406 - ... with obelisks placed between every two. There wants nothing but the embroidery of a parterre, to make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King William.
Page 176 - ... they are likewise efficacious in producing the proper distribution of the animal or vegetable matter : when equally mixed with it, they prevent it from decomposing too rapidly ; and by their means the soluble parts are supplied in proper proportions.
Page 184 - Ammonia is formed by the union of the hydrogen of the water with the nitrogen of the atmosphere ; and nitre, by the union of oxygen and nitrogen ; the oxygen may also unite with the carbon contained in the soil, and form carbonic acid gas, and carburetted hydrogen. Heat is given out during these processes, and " hence,
Page 131 - This is exemplified in the beech and sycamore, and still more in the ash, of which the fibrous roots sometimes amount to millions. Such soils accordingly furnish the best rooting ground, and are always favourites with the planter. To fit trees for removal to situations of great exposure, the roots may by artificial methods, be multiplied to a degree far beyond what can be accomplished by unassisted nature; and thus by art discreetly employed, the business of vegetation, that is, the circulation of...
Page 402 - The editor of this paper, is authorized to offer (and pledges himself for the performance) a gold medal with a suitable inscription, value one hundred dollars, or a piece of plate of equal value, for the best essay (its merits to be decided on by competent and impartial judges,) on the inadequacy of the wages generally paid to seamstresses, spoolers, spinners, shoebinders, Sec.
Page 20 - The fore-ground trees, the best that could be procured, placed on the eastern bank, above the water, broke it into parts with their spreading branches, and formed combinations which were extremely pleasing. The copse or underwood, which covers an island in the lake, and two promontories, as also an adjoining bank that terminates the distance, was seen coming down nearly to the water's edge. What was the most important of all, both trees and underwood had obtained a full and deepcoloured leaf, and...
Page 353 - I. The soil being light sand, the grove trees chiefly employed to form this plantation are beech, sycamore, birch, and a few limes. The copse or underwood consists of oak, mossy-cup oak, beech, chestnut, birch, Norway maple, holly, hazel, mountain-ash, and birds-cherry common and Canadian. Of the grove-wood it is a singular circumstance, that not a tree failed last season, notwithstanding the endurance, as well as severity of the drought, during a summer truly tropical. Some of the bushes, however,...
Page 416 - Pedestals, as for placing statues, wer*e ranged in different parts of the grounds, particularly along the broad walk, leading from the Palace to the Amphitheatre. On these pedestals, on extraordinary occasions, selected living figures, male and female, dressed in character, were placed, and taught to maintain certain...