On Naval Timber and Arboriculture

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Patrick Matthew. On Naval Timber and Arboriculture

On Naval Timber and Arboriculture

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

PART I. STRUCTURE OF VESSELS

SECTION I. PLANK

DIRECTIONS5 FOR TRAINING PLANK TIMBER

SECTION II. TIMBERS

NOTES TO PART I

PART II.BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER

OAK—Quercus

SPANISH CHESTNUT—Castanea vulgaris, (Fagus Castanea, L.)

BEECH-TREE—Fagus sylvatica

ELM—Ulmus.—BROAD-LEAVED, OR SCOTCH, or WYCH ELM—Ulmus montana

NARROW-LEAVED OR ENGLISH ELM—Ulmus campestris

REDWOOD WILLOW, or STAG’S HEAD OZIER—Salix fragilis13

RED-WOOD PINE—Pinus

WHITE LARCH—Larix communis, (L. pyramidalis)

CLASS I. SOILS AND SUBSOILS FOR LARCH

CLASS II. SOILS AND SUBSOILS WHERE LARCH TAKES DRY ROT

ON BENDING AND KNEEING LARCH

NOTES TO PART II

PART III.MISCELLANEOUS MATTER CONNECTED WITH NAVAL TIMBER

NURSERIES

PLANTING

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON PRUNING

OBSERVATIONS ON TIMBER

CONCERNING OUR MARINE, &c

NOTES TO PART III

PART IV.NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER

I. THE FORESTER’S GUIDE, by Mr. Monteath

II.—NICOL’S PLANTER’S CALENDAR

III. BILLINGTON ON PLANTING

IV.—FORSYTH ON FRUIT AND FOREST TREES

V.—MR WITHERS

VI.—STEWARDS PLANTER’S GUIDE, AND SIR WALTER SCOTT’S CRITIQUE

VII. CRUICKSHANK’S PRACTICAL PLANTER

NOTES TO PART IV

APPENDIX

NOTE A

NOTE B

NOTE C

NOTE D, p. 4

NOTE E

NOTE F

NOTES TO THE APPENDIX

ERRATA

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Patrick Matthew

With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting

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OBSERVATIONS ON TIMBER.

CONCERNING OUR MARINE, &c.

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