The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters, Volum 1

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W. Blackwood and Sons, 1905 - 642 sider

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Side 80 - States, it would still be less than the value of the forest crop by a sum sufficient to purchase at cost of construction all the canals, buy up at par all the stock of the telegraph companies, pay their bonded debts and construct and equip all the telephone lines in the United States.
Side 25 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Side 17 - Highness, and the other moiety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoine, wager of law, or protection shall be allowed.
Side 25 - ... were tempted not only to fell and cut down, but utterly to extirpate, demolish and raze, as it were, all those many goodly woods and forests, which our more prudent ancestors left standing for the ornament and service of their country.
Side 494 - Crab-apple (Pyrus malus) also displaces Thorns in hedges. We have only to view the hedges in the southern counties of England to be convinced of the noxious effects of intermixing other plants with the Thorn.
Side 37 - Scotland, to inquire into and report on the present position and future prospects of forestry, and the planting and management of woodlands in Great Britain ; and to consider whether any measures might with advantage be taken, by the provision of further educational facilities or otherwise, for their promotion and encouragement.
Side 57 - And be it enacted, that in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages, the same shall be taken to be the rent at which one year with another such lands and heritages might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year...
Side 20 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or any of them, or any part thereof, then belonging or thereafter to belong to Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or to any other person or persons in trust for Her Majesty, her heirs or successors...
Side 35 - ... however, only 57,304 acres are actually under timber crops in the New Forest, Forest of Dean, and other smaller tracts. Among the recommendations made by the Committee was the following : — ' The allotments set out and allotted to the Crown in severally in Alice Holt Forest, Bere Forest, and Parkhurst Forest were by the Acts devoted to the growth of timber for the Eoyal Navy.
Side 17 - The King our Sovereign Lord perceiving and right well knowing the great decay of timber and woods universally within this his realm of England to be such, that unless speedy remedy in that behalf be provided, there is great and manifest likelihood of scarcity and lack...

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