 | William Cobbett - Tree planting - 1825 - 360 pages
...the first to the last. Nevertheless, I did not forget my country, and the duty I still owed to her. I was convinced that nothing in the timber way could...a benefit as the general cultivation of this tree. Thus thinking, I brought a parcel of this seed home with me in 1819, but I had no means of sowing it... | |
 | William Cobbett - Tree planting - 1825 - 352 pages
...Nevertheless, I did not forget my country, and the duty I still owed to her. I was convinced thatmothing in the timber way could be so great a benefit as the general cultivation of this tree. Thus thinking, I brought a parcel of this seed home with me in 1819, but I had no means of sowing it... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 786 pages
...Long Island, near New York ; and, during that period, as he tells us in hie Woodlands (ยง 326.), " was convinced that nothing in the timber way could...benefit as the general cultivation of this tree." He adds : " Thus thinking, I brought home a parcel of the seeds with me in 1819, but I had no means... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 588 pages
...Long Island, near New York, lad during that period, as he tells us in his Woodlands, "was convincei that nothing in the timber way could be so great a benefit as the general cultivation of this tree." He adds : " thus thinking, I brought home i parcel of the seeds with me in 1819, but I had no means... | |
 | 1868 - 970 pages
...chiefly occupied bunself in farming and gardening in Long Island, and during that period he became convinced " that nothing in the timber way could be...benefit as the general cultivation of this tree." Also he predicted that the time was not far distant when the locust-tree would be more common in England... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1875 - 1248 pages
...considered as holding a high rank as a timber tree, or as being worth planting with a view to profit. \Ve pass over many curious and historical facts respecting...cultivation of this tree." On his return to England he coimnenced nurseryman, and the name of locust, as applied to this tree, being, before Cobbett's time,... | |
 | John Wilson - Trees - 1889 - 206 pages
...popularity through the influence of WILLIAM COBBBTT. While in America, from 1817 to 1819, Mr. COBBBTT became convinced that " nothing in the timber way could be...benefit as the general cultivation of this tree." He, accordingly, on his return to England, became nurseryman and disseminator of the locust-tree. As... | |
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I had no means of sowing it until the year 1823. I then began sowing it, but upon a very small scale. I sold the plants; and, since that time, I have sold altogether more than a million of them. 