A sure and easy method of improving estates; By plantation of oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, platanus, Portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their manner of raising, cultivating, feeling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. By Batty Langley.
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
- Date:
- 1740
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Also known as
Sure method of improving estates
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for F. Noble, at Otway's-Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near Leicester-Fields, 1740.
Physical description
[10],xx,274p.,plate ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC N34632