Trees and Forestry: A Selected List of the More Important Books in the Library ...

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Carnegie Library, 1917 - Broj stranica: 18

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Stranica 8 - Field book of American trees and shrubs: a concise description of the character and color of species common throughout the United States, together with maps showing their general distribution.
Stranica 13 - TIMBER : A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects (Commercial and Botanical), showing the different Applications and Uses of Timber in Various Trades, etc. Translated from the French of PAUL CHARPENTIER. Royal 8vo. 437 pp. 178 Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s.
Stranica 8 - Contains descriptions of nearly 200 trees and a number of shrubs. A chapter entitled "The growth of trees" deals with their structure, peculiarities, and sources of life. Arranged according to the kind of soil in which trees grow.
Stranica 14 - Forest valuation. 1915. Wiley. Contents: Values. — Outlay and income. — Interest. — Valuation of assets. — Formulae of compound interest. — Investments and costs in forest production. — The valuation of forests. — Forest statics, the balance sheet, profits. — The appraisal of damages. — Forest taxation. — Stumpage values. — Future value of forest products.— Risks. — Field appraisals of timber stumpage. — Comparison of forest values with agricultural values. Covers only...
Stranica 14 - CONTENTS.— The Structural Elements of Wood. Cellulose as a Chemical. Sources of Supply. Mechanical Wood Pulp. Chemical Wood Pulp. The Bleaching of Wood Pulp. News and Printings. Wood Pulp Boards. Utilisation of Wood Waste. Testing of Wood Pulp for Moisture. Wood Pulp and the Textile Industries. Bibliography. Index.
Stranica 16 - CONCLUSIONS. (1) Any marked climatic changes that may have taken place are of wide extent and not local, are appreciable only when measured in geologic periods, and evidence is strong that the cutting away of the forests has had nothing to do with the creating or the augmenting of droughts in any part of the world.
Stranica 15 - The Tree and How It Lives," "The Tree and How It Dies," "How to Know the Trees," "Work in the Woods," "By-products of the Forest,
Stranica 11 - ... work. BENNETT H. BROUGH. OUR BOOK SHELF. The Shrubs of North- Eastern America. By Charles S. Newhall. 8vo, pp. 249, with 116 woodcut figures. (London: GP Putnam's Sons, 1893.) THE author of the present volume had previously written a similar book on the trees of the same region, which he defines as " Canada and the United States east of the Mississippi and north of the latitude of Southern Pennsylvania.
Stranica 10 - Our Trees How to Know Them Photographs from Nature By ARTHUR. I. EMERSON With a guide to their recognition at any season of the year, and notes on their characteristics, distribution and culture By CLARENCE M. WEED, D. So. I4O Illustrations. Slza 7\
Stranica 9 - Illustrations are accompanied by brief descriptions. In addition to North American plants, it includes woody plants of other regions, especially those of the northern hemisphere which may be expected to flourish in the gardens of the United States, and those of special commercial or economic importance.

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