FOREST PLANTING : A TREATISE ON THE CARE OF TIMBER LANDS AND THE RESTORATION OF DE-NUDED WOOD-LANDS ON PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo , 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. 237, [1], 1-8 (advertising). Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Illustrated with black and white engravings. Red-brown cloth boards with leaf and flower design stamped in black to front. Gilt title with tree limb design to spine. Light rubbing to boards. Small closed tears to top of spine. Half-inch chip to fore-edge of rear free endpaper. Age-toning to pages. Very Good. Item #86907
"American writers on forestry have mostly confined themselves to the treatment of forest tress as single trees, and not as masses of trees raised for the purpose of producing crops of wood or timber. They thought that forestry was the art of tree planting... This is entirely wrong... Unless the natural forests are managed systematically, we cannot but expect that the reparations of damages done to a forest either by accidents or elementary forces, or by the natural course of tree life, will take as many centuries as it would require decades for this purpose, if we assist nature in its regenerating endeavors through the means sggested by scientific forestry." (from the Preface).
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