The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting and Tending of Forest Trees and the General Management of Woodland Estates, Volumen1

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W. Blackwood and sons, 1894

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Página 2 - Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.
Página 29 - States, it would still be less than the value of the forest crop by a sum sufficient to purchase at cost of construction all the canals, buy up at par all the stock of the telegraph companies, pay their bonded debts and construct and equip all the telephone lines in the United States.
Página 61 - They are also satisfied by the evidence that the establishment of forest schools, schools, or at any rate of a course of instruction and examination in Forestry, would be desirable, and they think that the consideration of the best mode of carrying this into effect might be one of the functions entrusted to such a Forest Board.
Página 32 - At Pekin, in China, where the mean temperature of the year is that of the coasts of Brittany, the scorching heats of summer are greater than at Cairo, and the winters as rigorous as at...
Página 28 - ... satisfactory log size. Certain kinds of supplies are beginning to give out. Even the white pine resources, which a few years ago seemed so great that to attempt an accurate estimate of them was deemed too difficult an undertaking, have, since then, become reduced to such small proportions that the end of the whole supply in both Canada and the United States is now plainly in view.
Página 11 - Committee also think it right to call attention to the present unsatisfactory condition of the New Forest. Mr. Lascelles, the deputy surveyor, has expressed himself strongly on this question, and attributes it to the Act of 1877. " There are to be seen by the student of forestry," he says, " over 40,000 acres of waste land lying idle and worthless.
Página 1 - A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Página 173 - Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, serrated, silky on both sides ; the lowest serratures glandular. Stamens hairy. Germen smooth, almost sessile. Stigmas deeply cloven. Scales notched. Flowers yellow ; May (London). Distribution. — Hooker (Students
Página 85 - And be it enacted, that in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages, the same shall be taken to be the rent at which one year with another such lands and heritages might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year...

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