The Glasgow Naturalist 03 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Glasgow Naturalist, Vol. 3: The Journal of the Natural History Society of Glasgow (Including the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society, Third Series) Systematic planting of trees on an extensive scale has been practised in Scotland for a period of nearly two hundred years. The character of the woodlands has been so greatly changed, that a recent writer is not sure if there is any large wood which can be said to be wholly indigenous in Great Britain now (6) - a statement which certainly requires the qualifications made, so far as it applies to Scotland. In other ways we hear so much of the benefits and needs of afforestation and of neglect of forestry affairs that it is well to recollect that Scotland has actually been the area of experiments in arboriculture (I do not say forestry) on a scale unknown in any other country of the world, except England, in some ways. The small number of kinds of trees growing in Scotland two hundred years ago, and the long list of species now found flourishing, illustrate this point and mark off the modern period. The present review will not extend to that period, but some account of earlier and less-known times up to the year 1750 will be given - native, naturalised, and exotic trees being taken into consideration. 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.