The Scottish Forestry Journal: Being the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society. V. 1-60, 7–8. köide

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1875
 

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Page 204 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 104 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 166 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 139 - There is no reason why the same rule should not be applied when a written application is made for an insurance policy.
Page 210 - Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris ; or, A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up...
Page 137 - Locust-trees have always been the most numerous trees in England ; and some curious writer of a century or two hence will tell his readers that, wonderful as it may seem, ' the Locust was hardly known in England until about the year 1823, when the nation was introduced to a knowledge of it by William Cobbett.
Page 207 - He had fallen into covetousness, and altogether loved greediness. He planted a great preserve for deer, and he laid down laws therewith, that whosoever should slay hart or hind should be blinded. He forbade the harts and also the boars to be killed.
Page 197 - Forest Trees and Woodland Scenery, as described in Ancient and Modern Poets. By William Menzies, Deputy Surveyor of Windsor Forest and Parks, &c.
Page 160 - Upon failure of complying with these conditions the deposit-money shall be forfeited to the vendor, who shall be at liberty to resell the lot or lots...
Page 197 - Dauphiny, although, by the clearing of the forests, a great extent of plough-land and pasturage had been added to the soil before reduced to cultivation. It was found, in fact, that the augmented violence of the torrents had swept away, or buried in sand and gravel, more land than had been reclaimed by clearing...

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