. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. sorry to advise anyone to plant eitherLocust or Walnut extensively, while they hadother well-known and better croppers at theirdisposal. It is rather curious that advocates ofthe Locust-tree do not plant it more extensivelythemselves, seeing how long and favourahle their:opportunitie3 have been. ? ? > I may be wrong, but the longer I live the triore*I discount the opinions as to the value of timberI trees of those foresters and owners who are not alsoacquainted with the timber trade and its demand
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. sorry to advise anyone to plant eitherLocust or Walnut extensively, while they hadother well-known and better croppers at theirdisposal. It is rather curious that advocates ofthe Locust-tree do not plant it more extensivelythemselves, seeing how long and favourahle their:opportunitie3 have been. ? ? > I may be wrong, but the longer I live the triore*I discount the opinions as to the value of timberI trees of those foresters and owners who are not alsoacquainted with the timber trade and its demands. tree was not tried. What has become of theplantations ? Planters stuck to the Larch aftertrial, but neither the precept nor the practice ofCabbett appears to have established a belief in theLocust-tree. I may say here that I am lookingat this subject from an economic forestry point ofview, as I understand jour correspondents aredoing, and I ask, AViU it pay to plant the Looust-tree P There is one tree that I have an increasingly fa-vourable opinion of, and that is the Deodar Fig. 159.—ehododendron -lady godiva: flowers white with yellow blotch. Outside the trade the ignorance on this headis profound. Locally and geaerally everythingdepends ultimately on the demand and the variety of uses to which any timber can be under planking dimensions usually go as oddments at timber sales and fetch a lowprice. Reverting to Cobbett, can those of your readers^ who profess to know most about the U3 what became of Cobbetts plantations?,He raised and distributed great quantities of ; stated that in sixt^ years it would be ascommon as the Oak in England, and extolled itso much that it was planted to an unprecedentedextent. It cannot be ?said, therefore, that the Dr. Masters says its resemblance to the Larch isstriking botanically, and the same may be said ofthe timber, only it is closer in the grain, heavier,and of a deeper colour., It is on
Size: 1342px × 1862px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookdecade1870, booksubjectgardening, booksubjecthorticulture
