Some Additional Notes Upon Trees and Tree Planting in MassachusettsWright & Potter, 1886 - 21 עמודים |
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ability to resist ADDITIONAL NOTES Ailanthus wood American larch ARBORETUM OF HARVARD ARNOLD ARBORETUM Austrian pine average beauty begin to fail BOARD OF AGRICULTURE C. S. SARGENT cheaply chusetts climate coniferous conifers creasoted crop of pitch deciduous deciduous trees different woods elm and birch especially European trees Europe European larch wood exotic trees experiment grown in Massachusetts hardy HARVARD College hemlock hickory Inches LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Massachusetts planters MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD mental plantations native larch native species native trees native woods Norway maple Norway spruce NOTES UPON TREES nurserymen orna ornamental plantations perhaps pine Pinus pitch pine planted in Massachusetts POST OFFICE SQUARE preserving process promise railway rapidly reaching Scotch pine seedling soil specific gravity specimens spikes Suggestions on Tree sylviculture taken two feet thrive timber tree tion track in October tree in Massachusetts Tree Planting TREES AND TREE valuable timber valuable tree vigor white oak white pine white willow
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עמוד 3 - ... investigations upon the same subject made during the past ten years. When they were prepared, I, like most American writers upon subjects relating to forestry, was strongly impressed with the value of various foreign trees for general cultivation in this State. I am now as fully convinced that the native trees of Massachusetts are better suited to Massachusetts than any exotic trees can be, and that if our woods and plantations are ever to assume real importance, and to make profitable returns...
עמוד 3 - The subject of economic tree planting in Massachusetts was discussed by me in two papers * published in the reports of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture for 1875 and 1878. Many of the conclusions reached in those papers, however, have not been substantiated by further investigations upon the same subject made during the past ten years. When they were prepared, I, like most American writers upon subjects relating to forestry, was strongly impressed with the value of various foreign trees...