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... MEANS OF PREVENTION , AND REMEDIES , WHERE PRACTICABLE : Also , an Examination of the Properties of ENGLISH FIR TIMBER ; WITH REMARKS ON THE OLD AND OUTLINES OF A NEW SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OAK WOODS . BY WILLIAM PONTEY ...
... MEANS OF PREVENTION , AND REMEDIES , WHERE PRACTICABLE : Also , an Examination of the Properties of ENGLISH FIR TIMBER ; WITH REMARKS ON THE OLD AND OUTLINES OF A NEW SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OAK WOODS . BY WILLIAM PONTEY ...
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... means to pursue that course . For the present , his leisure is almost exclusively devoted to the reprinting of The Profitable Planter , with large addi- tions - which has been long promised , but much longer called for ; and delayed ...
... means to pursue that course . For the present , his leisure is almost exclusively devoted to the reprinting of The Profitable Planter , with large addi- tions - which has been long promised , but much longer called for ; and delayed ...
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... means are not always the least ef fectual ; and the country has much to regret , that no public proof has yet appeared , of simi- lar means having been used by others . The doubts , which rest upon the minds of most men , both in regard ...
... means are not always the least ef fectual ; and the country has much to regret , that no public proof has yet appeared , of simi- lar means having been used by others . The doubts , which rest upon the minds of most men , both in regard ...
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... means a leading object with him ; and his man- ner of treating the subject speaks still more decidedly to the point ; for his directions , in regard to pruning fruit trees show clearly he had studied that subject ; but his method of ...
... means a leading object with him ; and his man- ner of treating the subject speaks still more decidedly to the point ; for his directions , in regard to pruning fruit trees show clearly he had studied that subject ; but his method of ...
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... , and drops some loose hints , in regard to what has been the opinions and practice of others ; and sees , or thinks he sees , destruc- tion lurk behind , as the natural con- sequence of them all , mean time he seems very 24.
... , and drops some loose hints , in regard to what has been the opinions and practice of others ; and sees , or thinks he sees , destruc- tion lurk behind , as the natural con- sequence of them all , mean time he seems very 24.
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Page 18 - Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries in all Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees ; with an Account of a particular Method of Cure.
Page 65 - that he had seen some of it, which, after it had been 300 years in the roof of an old castle, was as fresh and full of sap as new imported from Memel...
Page 4 - In forest annals, no tree affords so mauy fond, so many grand memorials as the, oak; no object is more sublime than this stately plant; and yet, as Pontey truly says, " even our mushrooms are tended with a nurse's care, while the oak, the pride of our woods, the chief material of our navy, and consequently the bulwark of our country, is (too often) left to thrive or rot by chance, unheeded, if not forgotten.
Page 24 - ... thick paint), with a painter's brush, covering the stem carefully over. This softens the old scabrous bark, which peels off during the following winter and spring, and is succeeded by a fine smooth new bark.
Page 25 - ... a plaster, but now in a liquid state, and laid over the wounded or injured part of the tree, with a painter's brush : it is of a soft and healing nature, possesses an absorbent and adhesive quality, and by resisting the force of washing rains, the contraction of nipping frosts, and the effects of a warm sun or drying winds, excludes the pernicious influence of a changeable atmosphere.
Page 279 - Discovery, p. 316. tenant, he was appointed to command the Hecla, and to take charge of the second arctic expedition, on which service he was employed two years. On the 14th of November, 1820, he was promoted to the rank of Commander. On the 19th of December, 1820, the Bedfordean Gold Medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him. On the 30th of December of that year, he was appointed to the Fury, with orders...
Page 225 - ... cloths, where they can be applied. The hollow may then be filled with very dry sand, and its mouth plugged with wood. The plug should be driven, so as to be level with the inner bark ; as, by that means, nature's efforts would not be obstructed, in growing over it.
Page 23 - He also mentions a discovery which he lias recently made, and which, as being calculated to save time and labour, may deserve attention. Instead of paring away the bark, as had heretofore been the practice, and covering the stem with the composition...