Library Of Entertaining Knowledge - Softcover

Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461575876 ISBN 13: 9780461575873

Publisher: HardPress, 1828

Synopsis

Library Of Entertaining Knowledge. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Vegetable Substances used in the Arts and Domestic Economy, organized into major sections on Timber Trees and Fruits. It offers detailed discussions of timber and forest management, with portraits of principal European timbers (oak, pine, larch, yew, cork oak, beech, elm, walnut, mahogany, and many others), their cultivation, properties, and broad applications in shipbuilding, building, and crafts, along with treatments on tanning, dyeing, and the extraction of resins and oils. The text also examines forestry practices, transplanting grown trees, and the influence of forests on climate and agriculture, reflecting a 19th-century interest in practical natural history and economic botany. Part II surveys Fruits, spanning temperate and tropical climates, with entries on apples, pears, quinces, grapes, berries, and countless exotic fruits (mango, orange, banana, bread-fruit, jackfruit, durian, guava, tamarind, and many others), detailing cultivation, varieties, culinary uses, medicinal notes, and the global diffusion of cultivated fruit-trees through horticultural societies. The work fuses natural history, economic geography, and antiquarian anecdotes to illuminate how cultivation and commerce shaped the modern distribution of plant resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1828
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461575876
• ISBN 13: 9780461575873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448