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Page 37 - is so valuable as the larch in its fertilizing effects, arising from the richness of the foliage which it sheds annually. In a healthy wood the yearly deposit is very great; the leaves remain, and are consumed on the spot where they drop...
Page 35 - Scotch pine, transplanted from the nursery in 1853, are now forty feet high, and from ten to twelve inches in diameter at one foot from the ground. Trees of the Scotch pine, raised from seed planted in 1861, where the trees have grown, but in favorable situations, and which have been properly thinned, have been cut this winter, and measured thirty feet in height and ten inches in diameter one foot from the ground, while the average of the trees in a large plantation of Scotch pine, made in the same...
Page 37 - The leaves remain and consume on the spot where they drop, and when the influence of the air is admitted, the space becomes clothed in a vivid green, with many of the finest kinds of natural grasses, the pasture of which is highly reputed in dairy management. And in cases where woodland has been brought under grain crops...
Page 39 - The labor of cutting the trees will be more than paid for by the sale at different periods of a large amount of small wood suited to many rustic purposes, but for which no credit is made. It must also be remarked that the following account is charged with a permanent wire-fence, although it is more than probable that any land suited to this purpose is already surrounded by stone walls, which would require but little subsequent care. Present prices for forest products are taken, without allowance...
Page 1 - HAND-BOOK OF TREE-PLANTING ; OR, Why to Plant, Where to Plant, What to Plant, How to Plant. By NATHANIEL H. EGLESTON, Chief of Forestry Division, Department of Agriculture, Washington.