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The second part of the timber-tree improved : Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Ellis, William, ca. 1700-1758.
Standardized Title:
Timber-tree improved. Part 2
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Trees--Early works to 1800.
Trees.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii,207,[1]p. )
Other Title:
Second part of the timber-tree improved
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for, and sold by T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; T. Copper, at the Globe, in Pater-Noster-Row; and T. Bacon, in Dublin, MDCCXLII. [1742]
Notes:
Price in square brackets: (Price Stitch'd, Two Shillings.)
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T149516.
OCLC:
508967671

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