Excerpt from The Sylva Americana: Or a Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States, Practically and Botanically Considered From the sensible decay and general havoc made in our forests, we should be reminded, that such as do yet remain entire, may be carefully preserved, and the loss of such as are destroyed, sedulously repaired. There is no part of husbandry which men more commonly neglect than that of planting trees, without which, they can neither expect fruit, ornament or delight from their labors. ...
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Excerpt from The Sylva Americana: Or a Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States, Practically and Botanically Considered From the sensible decay and general havoc made in our forests, we should be reminded, that such as do yet remain entire, may be carefully preserved, and the loss of such as are destroyed, sedulously repaired. There is no part of husbandry which men more commonly neglect than that of planting trees, without which, they can neither expect fruit, ornament or delight from their labors. But they seldom do this till they begin to be wise, that is, till they grow old, and find by experience the prudence and necessity of it. When Ulysses, after a ten years' absence, was returned from Troy, and found his aged father in the field planting trees, he asked him, Why, being now so far advanced in years, he would put himself to the fatigue and labor of planting that, of _which he was never likely to enjoy the fruits? The good old man, taking him for a stranger, gently replied, I plant against my son Ulysses comes home. The application is obvious, and instructive both to old and young. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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