Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Tree Culture in South Australia Arboriculture, according to the common acceptation of the word, 18 the art of planting and rearing trees and shrubs; but in the opinion of the most learned sarans of the age it is now also looked upon as one of the most important of the many sciences which regulate the economic and hygienic affairs of nations. It is now generally admitted by all enlightened people that trees play a very important part in the general prosperity of any country, and that, ...
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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Tree Culture in South Australia Arboriculture, according to the common acceptation of the word, 18 the art of planting and rearing trees and shrubs; but in the opinion of the most learned sarans of the age it is now also looked upon as one of the most important of the many sciences which regulate the economic and hygienic affairs of nations. It is now generally admitted by all enlightened people that trees play a very important part in the general prosperity of any country, and that, by the amount of attention paid by its inhabitants to their cultivation, so may the phvsical and intellectual standard of the people be estimated. As our surroundings become physically more perfect, so in the same ratio do we become morally better. As one proof of this we have only to refer to the case of some of the ancient nations in Asia, such as Persia, Palestine, and Syria. In the early and most prosperous days of these countries, the inhabitants paid very great attention to the rearing of both fruit and timber trees, and, in consequence, their agri culture was highly productive, and all classes were prosperous. What is now the condition of these once fertile regions It is this: their forests have been long ago destroyed; their fields are now, comparatively speaking. Parched and unremunerative to the cultivators, and therefore agriculture is neglected, and their people have sunk into poverty and wretchedness; while the civilisation which once regulated their affairs has fallen with them, and left them in the condition of semi - barbarism in which they now are found. 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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