The Planting and Care of Shade Trees (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alfred Gaskill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330597494 ISBN 13 : 9781330597491

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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I llustrations. PAGE. Fig. 1. Elms 30 years old 5F ig. 2. Too much shade Plate I. Shade trees good and bad 11 Fig. 3. Residence street insufficiently shaded 12 Fig. 4. Street newly planted 15 Fig. 5. Diagram How trees should be placed 10 Fig. G. Young tree as received from the nursery IS Fig. 7. Same with top and roots pruned IS Fig. 8. Diagram How to plant a street tree 20 Plate II. Types of tree guards and gratings Fig. 9. Exposed roots tolerable Fig. 10. A tree choked by a guy wire Fig. 11. Guard a tree thus if it must anchor a guy 27 Fig. 12. Trees guarded while building goes on 28 Fig. 13. How lack of system gives a poor effect 31 Fig. 14. Trees on curb and inside footway contrasted 33 Fig. l.j. Old trees on a new grade and with cabled wires through their crowns 34 Fig. 16. Abrasion movilding 36 Fig. 17. Dense crowned Norv-ay maple 37 Fig. 18. Norway maple after an interior pruning 37 Fig. 19. Butchered maples 40 Fig. 20. Diagram How to doctor a tree 42 Fig. 21. Cavities from untreated wounds 44 Fig. 22. Pruning wounds completely healed 44 Plate III. Tree wounds filled and unfilled 47 Fig. 23. Trees saved by mounding and raising curb 50 Fig. 24. A tree well 51 Fig. 25. Street grade raised without injuring trees 51 Fig. 26. Trees in gutter and on sidewalk 54 Fig. 27. A w-ell shaded lawn made from native forest near the sea. 55 Fig. 28. Street lines accommodated to shade trees 58 Fig. 29. Elm standing in roadway 60 Fig. 30. Trees left above grade 62 Plate R. Insects injurious to shade trees 70 Plate Y. Insects injurious to shade trees 71 Fig. 31. The maple pseudococcus 77 Fig. 32. The San Jose scale 79 Fig. 33. A soft scale 81 Fig. 34. The maple-tree sesiid 82 Fig. 35. Work of the hickory bark beetle 85 Fig. 36. Chestnut leaf spot 95 Fig. 37. Chestnut tree nearly dead of blight 100 Fig. .88. Section of chestnut killed by blight 101 Fig. 39. White pine bli
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330597494
• ISBN 13: 9781330597491
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 135
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