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Title: The planter's guide; : or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood; being an attempt to place the art, and that of general arboriculture, on fixed and phytological principles; interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape. Originally intended for the climate of Scotland.
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: Steuart, Henry, Sir, 1759-1836
Subjects: Forests and forestry Tree planting
Publisher: New York, : G. Thorburn and sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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down from one ageto another, in the face of the most unquestionable experienceof its fallacy* Upon the whole, in considering this fairest, and most beau-tiful of vegetable productions, it is interesting to observe thecurious and complicated mechanism, if I may so speak, thatis displayed by nature, in nourishing and bringing it to per-fection, and the intimate connexion which subsists betweenthe most distant parts. In fact, every part of a tree is thecondition of every other part, which continually acts and re-acts. The judicious planter, therefore, will regard the treat-ment to be given to none of these parts with indifference; itbeing clear, that the preservation of all the parts^ in as en-tire and perfect a state as possible, is a matter of first-ratemoment to his art.t He will also sec, that his success mainlydepends on the due regulation of the ^a;^, an da careful y>ro-teciion of the sap-vessels. In the course of the foregoing remarks and illustrations • Note VIII. t Note IX.
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«^^^ o: ! I :..■ -SJ^—, - ^- SiSie? SPECIMEN OF A TREE REMOVED ON THE PRESERVATIVE PRINCIPLE. 137 I have eiicleavouied to show the impoitance of the four mainproperties or prerequisites, which trees should possess to ren-der them fit for removal to exposed situations. 1 liave alsogiven a cursory idea of the nature of the diHTerent organs ofwoody plants, by which those properties are designated.From what has been said, the intelligent reader will perceivethat the principle adopted, for a new theory of the art, isfounded on the laws of vegetation, and the researches of themost eminent phytologists. By reducing it to practice, themutilating system, now generally prevalent, will be renderedunnecessary, and a method established, which is obviouslysuperior in itself, and more agreeable to observation and ex-perience. This system I shall venture to call the Preserv-ative. But, before concluding these remarks, it is but fairtowards the existing system, to take a short view of the actualm

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