Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations; On the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening and on Gaining the Embanking Land from Rivers or the Sea baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...recommended in the firft head, and at the fame time not fufficient to warrant the management recommended for refinous trees alone. Plantations of this fort can be reduced to the'grove kind only; or, if the refinous trees are unequally diftributed, to the grove in fome places, and the wood in o-thers; the methods of accomplishing which have been already noticed. Under each of thefe heads, cafes will frequently occur, where the tree or trees which are xnoft profitable in that part of the country are deficient or totally wanting in part, or the whole, of the plantation to be reclaimed. In this cafe, thefe parts may be grubbed up and replanted; or, where the whole is to be grubbed up, it may be divided into parts, half the number of which are to be taken up and replanted, and the other half left alternately to fhelter them the firft two or three years: afterwards thofe parts left Jfeft are to be taken up and replanted with young trees alfo, when they will again be flickered by thofe parts firft planted. Draining is an improvement applicable to every kind of neglected plantation that ftands in need of it When it is omitted, every other operation, however well performed, will in the end prove unfuccefsful. The damage many plantations fuffer for want of draining, particularly all the Royal forefts is incalculable. Many thoufands of acres would, by this operation alone, be rendered of twenty times their prefent value f As all plantations may be drained by open cuts, the neceflary expence is very trifling compared with the drainage of arable grounds It See the Reports of the different counties given In to the Board of Agriculture. The Bifhop of LandafFs Observations, &c. The moil glaring inftance which occurred to me, in the courfe of my pra&ice was at...