The Forest Pruner; Or, Timber Owner's Assistant (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. MY LORD, HOWEVER patronage may be made to serve unworthy purposes, it has frequently been beneficial, both to authors and the public, by stamping a consequence and currency upon what is, in itself, useful.?Had a doubt been entertained whether Rural Science required such an addition as the present performance, so far from your Grace's patronage being requested, the book itself would not have appeared. How much the example and influence of your illustrious Brother and Predecessor added to the improvement of almost every branch of Rural Economy, the faithful pen of History will record;?nor will it be forgotten, that the improvement of Timber was an object of his solicitude.?To have been deputed, by him, to superintend that object, will always be considered, by myself, as the highest honour, and next to it, that of being continued by your Grace in the same appointment. The example of a Character which will ever be dear to this kingdom and mankind, the situation of your own Timber trees, ?your stake in the country, with the allowed distinction of being the hereditary Patron of Rural Science, all seem to claim, from your Grace, a steady perseverance in the honourable and beneficial path of improvement; as it must not only have a tendency to check the present increasing scarcity, but to shew what improvement Timber is capable of generally;?and, more particularly, the real properties of that unjustly degraded part of it?English-grown Firs. I am, my Lord, Your Grace's Most obedient humble servant, William Pontey. HudttersfieM, Dec. 16, 1805. chapter{Section 4PREFACE. 'As the author has, for many years, devoted a great proportion of his time to.investigating -.a branch of Rural Science, hitherto much neglected, though e...