Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... Nordmann's Silver Fir (Pieea Nbrdmanniana), from Northern Asia. Though this tree is of more recent introduction than most others, and still but small, yet from its having been at Elvaston Castle nearly two years before it was introduced elsewhere in this country, I have been enabled to form such an estimate as with confidence to recommend it as a tree of great attraction. It is said to reach the height of ninety feet; and coming out later in spring than any other, frosts will never affect it. The bark on the young shoots being of a brownish green, and the colour of the leaves also of a warm tint, it contrasts well with trees of a colder hue. The Pines.--The Pines such as have two leaves in a sheath, of which the Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris) is the type. Some may be mentioned of great beauty and value as timber trees. The Cobsican Pine (Pinus Laricio) is an erect, fast-growing tree; with long leaves of a deep or blackish green; it grows from one hundred to one hundred and forty feet high, and the timber is as valuable as the red deal of commerce. A lengthened description of this valuable timber tree is given in Loudon's Arb. Brit., where he describes it as being now extensively cultivated in Prance. It has been used as masts for the French navy for more than half a century, and in thirty or forty years when favourably grown, is available for such purposes. Austrian or Black Pine (Pinus Amtriaca), of which the forests in that country are composed, is likewise valuable as a timber tree, and for shelter in bleak situations is perhaps unequalled. Its foliage is long, dense, and of a deep green. Lawson says, "This tree attains a height of upwards of one hundred and twenty feet; it has the desirable tendency to grow rapidly and robust in a...
