 | Woodland gleanings - 1853 - 306 lehte
...most useful of all timber trees. He tells us that in his own garden he has rails which were put up in the year 1743, partly of oak and partly of Larch. The former, he says, have yielded to time, but the latter are still sound. And in his Castle of Tour d'Aigues he has Larchen... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1883 - 428 lehte
...useful of all timber trees. He tells us that, in his own garden, he has rails which were put up in the year 1743, partly of Oak, and partly of Larch. The former, he says, have yielded to time, but the latter are still sound. And in his castle of Tour d'Aigues he has larchen... | |
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... Memoirs of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris, for the year 1787, there is an essay by M. le President de la Tour d'Aigues, on the culture of the larch; in which it is celebrated as one of the most useful of all timber trees. He tells us, that... 