On Naval Timber and Arboriculture / With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. ... VII. Cruickshank's Practical Planter. After the preceding parts of this volume had gone to press, we received a copy of Cruickshank's Practical Planter. We endeavour to give a short view of the contents. The author commences with some general remarks on the expediency and profit of laying uncultivated ground under timber, stating, rather too strongly, the very superior income der...
Chapters (48)
- ON NAVAL TIMBER.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION.
- PART I. STRUCTURE OF VESSELS.
- SECTION I. PLANK.
- DIRECTIONS FOR TRAINING PLANK TIMBER.
- SECTION II. TIMBERS.
- NOTES TO PART I.
- PART II. BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER.
- OAK—Quercus.
- SPANISH CHESTNUT—Castanea vulgaris, (Fagus Castanea, L.)
- BEECH-TREE—Fagus sylvatica.
- ELM—Ulmus.—BROAD-LEAVED, OR SCOTCH, or WYCH ELM—Ulmus montana.
- NARROW-LEAVED OR ENGLISH ELM—Ulmus campestris.
- REDWOOD WILLOW, or STAG’S HEAD OZIER,—Salix fragilis13.
- RED-WOOD PINE—Pinus.
- WHITE LARCH—Larix communis, (L. pyramidalis).
- CLASS I. SOILS AND SUBSOILS FOR LARCH.
- CLASS II. SOILS AND SUBSOILS WHERE LARCH TAKES DRY ROT.
- ON BENDING AND KNEEING LARCH.
- NOTES TO PART II.
- PART III. MISCELLANEOUS MATTER CONNECTED WITH NAVAL TIMBER.
- NURSERIES.
- PLANTING.
- FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON PRUNING.
- OBSERVATIONS ON TIMBER.
- CONCERNING OUR MARINE, &c.
- NOTES TO PART III.
- PART IV. NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER.
- I. THE FORESTER’S GUIDE, by Mr Monteath.
- II.—NICOL’S PLANTER’S CALENDAR.
- III. BILLINGTON ON PLANTING.
- IV.—FORSYTH ON FRUIT AND FOREST TREES.
- V.—MR WITHERS.
- VI.—STEWARDS PLANTER’S GUIDE, AND SIR WALTER SCOTT’S CRITIQUE.
- VII. CRUICKSHANK’S PRACTICAL PLANTER.
- NOTES TO PART IV.
- APPENDIX.
- NOTE A.
- NOTE B.
- NOTE C.
- NOTE D, p. 4.
- NOTE E.
- NOTE F.
- NOTES TO THE APPENDIX.
- ERRATA.
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