Excerpt from The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter: Containing a Practical Treatise on Planting Moss, Rocky, Waste, and Other Lands; Also a New, Easy, and Safe Plan of Transplanting Large Trees, and of Valuing Growing Wood and Trees of All Descriptions; To Which Is Added, the Prevention and Cure of Dry Rot
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book provides guidance on forestry management. It covers topics such as soil selection, planting and maintaining trees, selecting trees for particular purposes, and valuing and measuring standing timber. The book presents methods for measuring and valuing trees, including oak coppice woods of various ages. It discusses the conversion of coppice into standing oak woods and examines methods of thinning natural wood. The author also considers the use of trees for different purposes, including naval shipbuilding, machinery, and carriages. The book concludes by assessing the value of different types of wood for tanning and making barrels, as well as the uses of specific tree species, including willow, oak, and larch. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Codice articolo 9781331955368_0
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Codice articolo LW-9781331955368
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