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Read Ebook: On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Matthew Patrick
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INTRODUCTION, . . . Page 1
Figure, dimensions, and quality of timber suitable, . . . 5
British trees suited for plank, . . . 7
Directions for training and pruning plank timber, . . . 8
Most suitable dimensions, . . . 18
Figures of bends and crooks, . . . 19
British trees suited for timbers, . . . 21
Oak--Quercus, . . . 31
Spanish Chestnut--Castanea vulgaris, . . . 42
Beech-tree--Fagus sylvatica, . . . 48
Scotch Elm--Ulmus montana, . . . 50
English Elm--Ulmus campestris, . . . 54
Red-wood Willow--Salix fragilis, . . . 58
Red-wood Pine--Pinus, . . . 63
White Larch--Larix communis, pyramidalis, . . . 75
Investigation of the causes of the rot in larch, . . . 78
Soils and subsoils most suited for larch, . . . 82
Soils and subsoils where larch generally takes rot, . . . 86
Remarks on open draining, . . . 88
Bending and kneeing larch, . . . 90
New plan of forming larch roots advantageously into knees, . . . 94
Uses of larch, and value as a naval timber, . . . 97
NURSERIES, . . . 106
Infinite variety existing in what is called species, . . . ib.
Injurious effect from selecting the seed of the inferior varieties for sowing, . . . 107
Injurious effect from kiln-drying fir cones, . . . ib.
A principle of selection existing in nature of the strongest varieties for reproduction, . . . 108
Injurious effect from the plants spindling in the seed-bed and nursery line, . . . 109
Injurious effect from cutting the roots and from pruning, . . . 111
A light soil and open situation best suited for a nursery, . . . ib.
Wide diverging root-leaders necessary to the large extension of a tree, . . . 112
PLANTING, . . . 114
Further observations on pruning, . . . 117
Observations on timber, . . . 122
Table of the number of sap-growths of different kinds of timber, . . . 124
Remarks on laburnum, . . . 126
Height to which trees may be trained of clear stem, . . . 128
CONCERNING OUR MARINE, . . . 130
Causes which befit Britain for being the first naval power, and the emporium of the world, . . . 131
Utility of a system of universal free trade, . . . 133
Absolute necessity of abolishing every monopoly and restriction on trade in Britain, . . . 134
Our marine not represented in Parliament, and the consequences, . . . 135
Insane duty on the importation of naval timber and hemp, . . . 136
Utility of a general review of these authors, . . . 138
Advantage of converting our coppice oak into forest, and of saving our home oak in time of peace, . . . 140
Plan, by Mr Monteath, of preparing peat soils for planting, . . . 142
Influence of our vernal eastern breeze on vegetation, . . . 146
Cause why the trees of narrow belts seldom grow to large timber, . . . 148
Observations on pruning and thinning, . . . 150
Observations on the age at which the valuable part of oak bark is thickest, . . . 154
Observations on the prevention of dry-rot, . . . 157
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