The Woodlands, Or, A Treatise on the Preparing of Ground for Planting; on the Planting; on the Cultivating; on the Pruning; and on the Cutting Down of Forest Trees and Underwoods: Describing the Usual Growth and Size and the Uses of Each Sort of Tree, the Seed of Each, the Season and Manner of Collecting the Seed, the Manner of Preserving and of Sowing It, and Also the Manner of Managing the Young Plants Until Fit to Plant Out; the Trees Being Arranged in Alphabetical Order, and the List of Them, Including Those of America as Well as Those of England, and the English, French, and Latin Name Being Prefixed to the Directions Relative to Each Tree Respectively, Issue 1 |
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acorns acre Alder AMERICAN Ash trees bark beautiful beds BEECH BIRCH BLACK WALNUT botanical characters bottom branches CEDAR CHESNUT colour cone coppice covered deciduous distances earth empalement England feet high female flowers Firs five four feet ground grow growth HAZEL hedge HICKORY hoops hop-poles hundred katkin land large trees leaf leaves limb LIVE OAK Locust Locust tree manner directed MAPLE MICHAUX says month of October nearly never nursery OAK Quercus oblong ORIENTAL PLANE ornamental paragraph petals piece plantation plants poles POPLAR pretty produce pruning raised reader rods roots roundish sand Sassafras seed seed-bed shoots side side-shoots soil sowing sown spring Spruce stamina stand stem stigma SUGAR MAPLE summer summits taken thing THORN thrive timber tion tree throws trench trunk TULIP TREE TUPELO twenty underwood WALNUT weather weeds WHITE WILLOW wood young trees