Pamphlets on Forestry, Volume 181897 |
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Page 131
... pine on the high- land and white cedar in the swamps , the latter being quite dense , but the upland timber is scattering , not usually thick enough to shade the earth . The soil is light sand and gravel . This practice is decreasing ...
... pine on the high- land and white cedar in the swamps , the latter being quite dense , but the upland timber is scattering , not usually thick enough to shade the earth . The soil is light sand and gravel . This practice is decreasing ...
Page 143
... pines yet grew upon the banks of the Up- per Hudson . The pine was yet the chief sought timber of the lumbermen . Magnificent trees , towering above all the forest , stood masters among the dark spruce and Hemlock forests , which ...
... pines yet grew upon the banks of the Up- per Hudson . The pine was yet the chief sought timber of the lumbermen . Magnificent trees , towering above all the forest , stood masters among the dark spruce and Hemlock forests , which ...
Page 164
... pine lumber , on a clay bluff over forty feet in height , rising from the water's edge of Chaques river . Except for the railway clear- ing , which gave a vista of about one - fourth mile each way , we were surrounded by a vegetable ...
... pine lumber , on a clay bluff over forty feet in height , rising from the water's edge of Chaques river . Except for the railway clear- ing , which gave a vista of about one - fourth mile each way , we were surrounded by a vegetable ...
Page 165
... pine , spruce and Douglas Fir , with Aspen groves and a scanty growth of alders , birches and willows on the more marshy borders of riv- ulets , eked with an occasional clump of Vine Maple or Dog- wood . The groves are generally ...
... pine , spruce and Douglas Fir , with Aspen groves and a scanty growth of alders , birches and willows on the more marshy borders of riv- ulets , eked with an occasional clump of Vine Maple or Dog- wood . The groves are generally ...
Page 166
... pine , the Spruce , surround the site of the dead monarch , with maybe one or two struggling saplings of fir , which ... pines and spruces , nature's rotation of tree crops . With trees , as with other created inanimate and animate ...
... pine , the Spruce , surround the site of the dead monarch , with maybe one or two struggling saplings of fir , which ... pines and spruces , nature's rotation of tree crops . With trees , as with other created inanimate and animate ...
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Page 57 - I am satisfied, are the persons named in and who executed the foregoing certificate of incorporation of , and I having first made known to them the contents thereof, they did each acknowledge that they signed, sealed and delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein expresed.
Page 149 - The proprietors of every railroad shall be liable for all damages which shall accrue to any person or property by fire or steam from any locomotive or other engine on such road.
Page 188 - These concessions are all right as far as they go. But they do not go far enough.
Page 185 - Commonwealth in the planting of trees, shrubs and vines, in the promotion of forest growth, and culture in the adornment of public and private grounds, places and ways, and in such other efforts and undertakings as shall be in harmony with the general character of a day so established.
Page 185 - Whoever wantonly injures, defaces, breaks or destroys an ornamental or shade tree within the limits of any public way or place shall forfeit not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars...
Page 154 - If they cannot agree with the owners thereof as to the price, they may condemn the same under the powers of eminent domain, and the value shall be determined as in the case of lands taken for highways, with the same rights of appeal and jury trial. On the payment of the value as finally determined, the land so taken shall be vested in the state, and forever held for the purposes of a public park. The persons furnishing the money to buy such land shall be at liberty to lay out such roads and paths...
Page 39 - Those in favor will say aye, those opposed no. The ayes have it, and the resolution is adopted.
Page 184 - ... shade trees standing, and trees planted, pursuant to such license, shall be deemed and taken to be the private property of the person so planting them, or upon whose premises they stand or are planted...
Page 185 - Any town or city may appropriate money for suitable buildings or rooms, and for the foundation of such library a sum not exceeding one dollar for each of its ratable polls in the year next preceding that in which such appropriation is made...