Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations: On the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; and on Gaining the Embanking Land from Rivers Or the SeaArchibald Constable & Company, 1804 - 342 páginas |
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Página 181 - cut down; •as, if they be cut before they arrive at that value, or if they be allowed to remain till they will fell for a much higher price, the proprietor of the foil on which they grow will be a lofer. He alfo mentions its being the general opinion * that it is more profitable to fell oak wood at fifty or
Página 115 - thus, The cradled hero gains from female care His future vigour : but, that vigour felt, He fprings indignant from his nurfe's arms ; He nods the plumy creft, he fhakes the fpear,
Página 179 - of the neighbouring young timbers, and the comparative advantages of a good market, are not to be bartered for any increafe of timber which can reafonably be expected from trees in the laft ftage of their growth. ' There are men in this kingdom, who, from mifmanagement of their timber, are now lofing, annually, very handfome incomes. The lofs of price which generally follows the
Página 179 - judgment, who, let the price and demand for timber be what they may, ought to mark every tree which wears the appearance of decay. If the demand be
Página 122 - to cultivate thefe trees for timber, fhould never think of tranfplanting them, but fow the acorns on the fame ground where they are to grow; for, timber of all thofe trees which are tranfplanted is not near fo valuable as that of the trees from
Página 180 - fays) * every tree ought to be cut down and fold, when the annual increafe in value of the tree by its growth, is lefs than the annual intereft of the money it would fell for. This being admitted, we have only to inquire into
Página 215 - a foreigner might imagine they were calculated for a race of Lilliputians. Are their (hades In any degree proportionable to common mortals ? By the turns of their winding walks, one
Página 181 - viz. that' in place of four or five pounds per load, if they would give eight or nine pounds per load for trees containing each one hundred cubic feet and upwards, every man in the kingdom would
Página 113 - Nor is the additional expence of preparing the foil confiderable; in many cafes, it will be more than repaid by the green crops, as potatoes, turnips, &c. which may be raifed on it for two
Página 96 - in a coal country. But, on the other hand, there are woods in fome places where both timber and undergrowth are cultivated; and it is from feeing the great profits obtained by the proprietors of