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• A sure method of improving estates by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof, their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1728)
• The landed gentleman's useful companion, or, A sure and easy method of improving estates : by plantation of oak, elm, beech, birch, platanus ... wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1741)
• A sure and easy method of improving estates : By plantation of oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, platanus, Portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their manner of raising, cultivating, feeling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. By Batty Langley
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1740)
• The second part of the timber-tree improved : Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire
  by: Ellis, William
  Published: (1742)
• The experimental husbandman and gardener : containing a new method of improving estates and gardens by cultivating and increasing of forrest-trees, coppice-woods, fruit-trees, shrubs, flowers and greenhouses and exotick plants after several manners ...
  by: Agricola, Georg Andreas
  Published: (1726)