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A Treatise On Forest-Trees by William Boutcher presents a comprehensive manual for the management, propagation, and transplantation of forest trees. It combines not only the best methods hitherto practiced, but introduces new discoveries from repeated experiments. The work covers planting and cultivating deciduous and evergreen species—from elm, beech, oak, maple, and plane to poplar and walnut—offering explicit step-by-step instructions for raising nursery stock, layering, grafting, inoculation, and hedging. Boutcher argues for long-term forest improvement through careful soil selection, shelter, windbreaks, and the strategic removal and translocation of trees up to thirty feet in height. It emphasizes practical measures for rapid establishment, including removing substantial trees into nurseries, guiding the progressive spacing, and managing ground between lines to encourage root spread. The volume also addresses public policy aspects, such as encouraging nurseries, hedges, and hedgerows, and promoting the forestry arts for climate and national wealth. The tone is practical and didactic, reflecting the agrarian concerns of its era, while providing a wealth of detailed protocols that bridge theory and hands-on practice.
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A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing Not Only the Best Methods of Their Culture Hitherto Practised, but a Variety of New and Useful Discoveries, the Result of Many Repeated Experiments: as Also, Plain Directions for Removing Most of the Valuable Kinds of Forest-Trees
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