Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society Volume 5, No. 1 (Paperback)


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. 1869 Excerpt: ... must be taken out, even though they should be rather healthier than some that are left. Thus is the original shelter of the plantation kept intact as far as possible, and space provided for the proper development of the standard trees, whose growth, by the operation of gradual thinning, is rather stimulated than retarded. Numerous instances of the damaging effects of severe thinning of neglected plantations could be given; but they might be considered by some to be rather personal, and are quite unnecessary. Whoever wishes to test the accuracy of the foregoing assertions, will find ample scope and proof by examining the plantations that have suffered so much from the severe gales that have recently swept the country, totally annihilating or ruining some plantations, and scarcely turning a tree in others that were equally exposed. Whether plantations that have been regularly and systematically, and, in due time, thinned, or plantations where thinning had been neglected, and then severely done, have suffered most from recent storms, is a problem I leave for the impartial forester to solve, with full confidence as to the result. After each periodical thinning has been finished, the drainage of the plantation should be attended to, as the open drains are often damaged and choked up with branches when thinning operations are going on. The branches and brushwood of the trees that have been cut are generally left scattered all over the ground. These, besides being injurious to the growing trees, are a great inconvenience to the workmen at the next periodical thinning. They should, therefore, be moved at the same time as the wood. The people of the district are generally glad to get these branches for fuel, and if not, the rough of them can be taken out and burnt ...

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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. 1869 Excerpt: ... must be taken out, even though they should be rather healthier than some that are left. Thus is the original shelter of the plantation kept intact as far as possible, and space provided for the proper development of the standard trees, whose growth, by the operation of gradual thinning, is rather stimulated than retarded. Numerous instances of the damaging effects of severe thinning of neglected plantations could be given; but they might be considered by some to be rather personal, and are quite unnecessary. Whoever wishes to test the accuracy of the foregoing assertions, will find ample scope and proof by examining the plantations that have suffered so much from the severe gales that have recently swept the country, totally annihilating or ruining some plantations, and scarcely turning a tree in others that were equally exposed. Whether plantations that have been regularly and systematically, and, in due time, thinned, or plantations where thinning had been neglected, and then severely done, have suffered most from recent storms, is a problem I leave for the impartial forester to solve, with full confidence as to the result. After each periodical thinning has been finished, the drainage of the plantation should be attended to, as the open drains are often damaged and choked up with branches when thinning operations are going on. The branches and brushwood of the trees that have been cut are generally left scattered all over the ground. These, besides being injurious to the growing trees, are a great inconvenience to the workmen at the next periodical thinning. They should, therefore, be moved at the same time as the wood. The people of the district are generally glad to get these branches for fuel, and if not, the rough of them can be taken out and burnt ...

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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62

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978-1-130-64520-0

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9781130645200

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1-130-64520-7



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