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; Being an Attempt to Place the Art on Fixed Principles, and to Apply it to General Purposes, Useful and Ornamental; Chiefly Intended for the Climate of Scotland |
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... nature has been more bountiful , and whose general character is more interesting , or more romantic ? It has been said ( and in ordinary cases with jus- tice ) of the art of the Painter , that it has a marked superiority over that of ...
... nature has been more bountiful , and whose general character is more interesting , or more romantic ? It has been said ( and in ordinary cases with jus- tice ) of the art of the Painter , that it has a marked superiority over that of ...
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... nature , he removed , to the spot , no fewer than Seven Hundred Cocoa Trees of various sizes , of which some rose to thirty , some to forty , and some to fifty feet high , to the lower- most branches . Of the success of the improvement ...
... nature , he removed , to the spot , no fewer than Seven Hundred Cocoa Trees of various sizes , of which some rose to thirty , some to forty , and some to fifty feet high , to the lower- most branches . Of the success of the improvement ...
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... and , if possible , to eclipse whatever had been done in this way , by those dis- tinguished nations . Accordingly , among the stupendous changes , * Silva , Vol . I. pp . 102 , 205 . which he made on the face of nature at Ver- 30.
... and , if possible , to eclipse whatever had been done in this way , by those dis- tinguished nations . Accordingly , among the stupendous changes , * Silva , Vol . I. pp . 102 , 205 . which he made on the face of nature at Ver- 30.
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... nature at Ver- sailles , and other royal residences , that by means of Transplanting was not omitted . All the arts of ingenuity , and all the efforts of expense and labour were employed , in constructing machinery for so novel an ...
... nature at Ver- sailles , and other royal residences , that by means of Transplanting was not omitted . All the arts of ingenuity , and all the efforts of expense and labour were employed , in constructing machinery for so novel an ...
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... Nature , so they appeared to want nothing , but the power of giving Immediate Effect to their pictures , in order to facilitate the competition , if it did not altogether turn the balance in their fa- vour . With the view , therefore ...
... Nature , so they appeared to want nothing , but the power of giving Immediate Effect to their pictures , in order to facilitate the competition , if it did not altogether turn the balance in their fa- vour . With the view , therefore ...
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Allanton appears Arboriculture ascer bark beauty Beech branches carbonic acid CHIG circumstances climate climate of Scotland Columella comminution compost consequence considerable Dispositions of wood earth Effect to Wood encrease executed expense experience exposure feet high fibres Geoponic girth give greater ground growth Highland Society Immediate Effect improvement inches ingenious judicious labour Larch Large Trees less lime Lord manner manure mass Meadowbank means ment method mould mutilated nature nearly nerally NOTE Nursery object observed operation park peat Peat-moss perly phytologists plantations planter pole possess practice prepared present principles proper proportion Protecting Properties Pruning purpose removed render respect roots says Scotland season shelter shoot side Single Trees situation soil sort species stem subjects subsoil success sufficient surface tap-roots taste Theophrastus thick tion Trans Transplanting Machine trench Ulmos Underwood vegetable wheels whole woody plants workmen
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Page 361 - 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...
Page 361 - 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 361 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
Page 368 - Walpole, 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 162 - Manure is ineffectual towards vegetation, until it become soluble in water ; and it would remain useless in a state of solution, if it so abounded as utterly to exclude air ; for in that case, the fibres or mouths of plants would be unable to perform their functions, and they would soon drop off by decay.
Page 360 - His far more pleasant garden God ordain'd; Out of the fertile ground he caus'd to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life, Our death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by, Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 88 - Branches, in consequence of the free access of light, are formed as plainly for the nourishment, as well as the balancing of so large a Trunk, and also for furnishing a cover, to shield it from the elements. Thirdly, their superior thickness and induration of Bark is, in like manner, bestowed for the protection of the sap-vessels, that lie immediately under it, and which, without such defence from cold, could not perform their functions. Fourthly, their greater number and variety of Roots are for...