. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. FORESTRY esthetic and sporting elements in man, as game pre- serves and parks —/uxiu-j/ forests. Any two or all three objects may be attained simultaneously in the same for- est. In the end, and in a more limited sense. Forestry is the art and business of making money from the grow- ing of wood crops, just as a
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. FORESTRY esthetic and sporting elements in man, as game pre- serves and parks —/uxiu-j/ forests. Any two or all three objects may be attained simultaneously in the same for- est. In the end, and in a more limited sense. Forestry is the art and business of making money from the grow- ing of wood crops, just as agriculture and horticulture are finally concerned in producing values from food crops. In the economy of agriculture, wood crops may be grown on land which is too poor for field crops. This art is divided into two distinct and more or less independent branches, namely silviculture, the techni- cal branch, and forest regulation, the business branch. Silviculture is a branch of the larger abiect arboriculture, and comprises all the knowledge and skill applied in producmg the wood crop, relying inly on natural sciences. While horticulture and silviculture have both ) deal with trees, their object and with it their treatment of trees are totally different: the orchardist works for the fruit of the tree, the land- scape gardener for the pleasing form; in both cases the object is at- tained by the existence of the tree and its single individual development; the forester is after the substance of the tree, the wood; his object is finally only attained by the re- moval of the tree itself. He deals with masses of trees ratherthan individ- uals: it is logs in quan- tity and of desirable quality, clear of knots, not trees, that he is work- ing for; hence, his treat- ment differs from that of the horticulturist. Since his crop takes many years to mature, some- more, in order to carry on a continuous Forestry business, from which to special arrangements pe- culiar to this business must be
Size: 803px × 3110px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
