 To prove the value of the Larch as a timber tree, several experiments were made in the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with...  Forest Trees - Page 192by Arthur Bryant - 1871 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 436 pages
...the late Duke of Athol. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the effect of the tide, and left dry by its fall. This species of alternation is the most trying of all... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1844 - 548 pages
...made in the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the effect of the tide, and then left dry by its fall. This species of alternation is the most trying of... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1852 - 564 pages
...made in the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the effect of the tide, and then left dry by its fall. This species of alternation is the most trying of... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 856 pages
...and the other of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered by water by the flow of the tide and left dry by its...endurance of timber, and accordingly the oaken posts were decayed, and were twice replaced in the course of a very few years, while those that were made... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 680 pages
...made in the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the eflect of the tide, and then left dry by its fall. This species of alternation ia the most trying of... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 646 pages
...made in the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the effect of the tide, and then left dry by its fall. This species of alternation is the most trying of... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 668 pages
...the river Thames. Posts of equal thickness and strength, some of Larch and others of oak, were diiven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered with water by the effect of the tide, and then left dry by its fall. This species of alternation is the most trying of... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 848 pages
...and the other of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered by water by the flow of the tide and left dry by its...endurance of timber, and accordingly the oaken posts were decayed, and were twice replaced in the course of a very few years, while those that were made... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 624 pages
...and the other of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered by water by the flow of the tide and left dry by its...endurance of timber, and accordingly the oaken posts were decayed, and were twice replaced in the course of a very few years, while those that were made... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...and the other of oak, were driven down facing the river wall, where they were alternately covered by water by the flow of the tide, and left dry by its...endurance of timber, and accordingly the oaken posts were decayed, and were twice replaced in the course of a very few years, while those that were made... | |
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