Economic Tree Planting | by Birdsey Grant Northrop
This paper is reprinted from the Report of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture. A few local allusions are retained to show the original aim of the writer and the application of kindred facts and plans to other fields.
| Title | Economic Tree Planting |
| Author | Birdsey Grant Northrop |
| Publisher | The Orange Judd Company |
| Year | 1878 |
| Copyright | 1878, The Orange Judd Company |
| Amazon | Economic Tree-planting |
Preface- An enlarged edition will soon be published under the title of Tree-planting, Economic and Ornamental, and Village Improvement. Public interest in rural adornment is rapidly increasing in Connecti...
- Economic Tree-Planting
- Being neither a scientist nor farmer, I have made no original investigations or practical experiments in forestry. Lest I may seem presumptuous in attempting to instruct others on a great subject in w...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 2
- George Peabody, who did so much to encourage schools and learning, originated the motto, so happily illustrated by his own munificent gifts to promote education: Education—the debt of the present to...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 3
- Indeed we have already a great Sahara in Connecticut produced by improvidence and neglect. The local traditions tell us that the sand-blow, covering so large an area in the towns of North Haven and ...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 4
- The Scotch fir or pine, which Mr. Fay so highly commends, is a native of the Highlands, a hardy tree, and the most rapid grower of all the evergreens suited to our climate—the Euro-pean larch, a still...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 5
- But on the question of the influence of forests on climate and the permanent water supply, there is a growing unanimity among practical foresters and professors in the forest schools of Europe. Their ...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 6
- These hills, which were clothed with a dense forest, have been stripped of trees, and what was never heard of before, the stream itself has been entirely dry. Within the last ten years a new growth of...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 7
- The ash is a fine ornamental tree for private grounds, public parks, or for the way-side. When planted closely for timber they grow straight and free from low laterals, and early reach a size that mak...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 8
- The Boston & Albany Railway have larch ties in use for sixteen years which are still sound. The president of the Illinois Central Railway, having examined the vast planted forests of larch in Europe a...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 9
- In some portions of Germany the law formerly required every landholder to plant trees along his road frontage. Happy would it be for us if the sovereigns of our soil would make each such a law for him...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 10
- Second For the best plantation of American white ash, of not less than five acres in extent, $600; for the next best, $400. Plantations originally of less than 5,000 trees to the acre, cannot compe...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 11
- John G. Thompson, North Truro About six hundred and fifty acres have been planted in this town. The price of pitch pine seed for the last few years has been one dollar and fifty cents per pound. Th...
- Economic Tree-Planting. Part 12
- Experiments are now in progress to fix the dunes or sand hills which threaten the Suez Canal, by planting the maritime pine and other trees. Last summer I visited the celebrated forest of Fontainbleau...
