The timber-tree improved: or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber And those fruit-trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of. Containing, I. Seven different ways of improving the oak, with remarks on the same. II. The nature and improvement of the beech. III. To raise a beech wood from seeds and sets. IV. Transplanting large beeches. V. To raise a beech hedge by seeds or sets. VI. Of the nature and improvement of the elm, witch-elm, ash, pollard-Ash, ashen-stems, standard-ash, walnut, black-cherry, VII. Reasons humbly offered for the common use of the black-cherry. VIII. Of the horn-bean, or horn-beech, lime-tree, horse-chesnut, maple, hazel, firr-tree, sycamore, sallow, aps, white-wood, poplar and abel, alder, withy and willow, oziers, white-elder, pear-tree, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdon, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ellis, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for, and sold by T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, and T. Bacon in Dublin 1742, MDCCXLII. [1742]
Edition:	The third edition
Subjects:	Timber
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1598500300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa