Trees And Shrubs For English Plantations A Selection And Description Of The Most Ornamental Trees And Shrubs Native And Foreign Which Will Flourish In The Open Air In Our Climate With Classified Lists Of The Several Species Under The Heads Of Size

Author : Augustus Mongredien
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330366950
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Trees Shrubs for English Plantations written by Augustus Mongredien and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trees Shrubs for English Plantations: A Selection and Description of the Most Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Native and Foreign, Which Will Flourish in the Open Air in Our Climate; With Classified Lists of the Several Species, Under the Heads of Size and Habit, Peculiarities of Foliage and Flow The primary object of this work is to furnish information which may induce and enable that numerous and increasing class of persons who are fond of arboriculture, and who take an interest in the formation or improvement of shrubberies, plantations, and parks, to avail themselves of all the resources at their command. Of the vast extent of those resources they are mostly unaware. Few know - whilst all might, and ought to know - that there are upwards of 600 trees and shrubs of surpassing beauty, each preeminent for various merits of its own, as regards foliage, flower, fruit, aspect, etc., that will grow in this country in the open air. These afford materials for grouping, with a view to effect, which have never been utilised to nearly the extent of which they are susceptible. Like the colours on a painter's palette, by the selection and combination of which he makes his canvas glow with beautiful forms and harmonious tints, so the infinite variety of outline and colour in trees affords scope for so arranging them as to produce most striking results, both in home views and distant landscapes. 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.