Pine Plantations On The Sand Wastes Of France

Author : John Croumbie Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9781331914136
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Pine Plantations on the Sand-Wastes of France (Classic Reprint) written by John Croumbie Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pine Plantations on the Sand-Wastes of France The preparation of this volume for the press was undertaken in consequence of a statement in the Standard and Mail, a Capetown paper, of the 22nd July, 1876, to the effect that in the estimates submitted to Parliament 1,000 had been put down for the Cape Flats, it was supposed with a view to its being employed in carrying out planting operations as a means of reclaiming the saudy tracts beyond Salt River. In view of the success which has followed the planting of the Landes of Gascony and the Gironde with the maritime pine, it might seem that nothing now can be required in order to arrest and utilise drift-sands, but to plant them judiciously with that tree. Rut, happily, I may say, the failure of such plantations on the Landes of La Sologne comes to warn us against auy such rash generalisation. And the observation of sand downs in Britain, and sand plains elsewhere, show that herbs, carices, reeds, and grasses have operated extensively in arresting effectually, and, according to their measures, in utilising what otherwise would have been barren and destructive sand-wastes. Looking at the subject generally, all that I consider established by the pine plantations on the sand-wastes of France is the practicability of arresting and utilising sand-drifts by means of plantations of trees. What has been accomplished there we may legitimately infer may he effected elsewhere, not necessarily by the same means, but by means as appropriate, if they can be discovered. But while this may be all that is established there is much more suggested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."