[164] Different influence of transplanting on herbaceous and woody vegetables,
[165] Cutting the roots close in, injurious to some trees and not to others,
[167] Mr Sang’s plan of raising forest from the seed in situ,
[168] Reasons which render the planting of young trees preferable to sowing in situ,
[170] Mr Sang’s directions for nursery practice; sowing the different kinds of forest trees in the seed-bed; removing the seedlings to the nursery line, and from thence to the field,
ib. Discomfiture of our Scottish Knights by Mr Withers,
[199] Account of a number of facts and experiments by the writer, on the comparative strength of quick and slow grown timber—on the influence of circumstance and age in modifying the quality of the timber—on the difference in the quality of different varieties of the same species, and of different parts of the same tree,
[214] Oak timber, moderately fast grown, so that it may be of sufficient size, and still retain the toughness of youth, best suited for naval use,
[215] Mr Withers, his literary friends and Sir Henry Steuart equally imperfectly acquainted with the subject in dispute between them,
[217] The Withers’ system neither necessary nor economically suited for the greater part of Scotland,
[221] Fallacy of experiments on the strength of timber, from not taking into account the difference of tension of the different annual layers, and their position, whether flat, perpendicular, &c.,
[226]
VI.—STEUART’S
PLANTER’S
GUIDE AND
SIR
WALTER
SCOTT’S
CRITIQUE,
[227] Importance of whatever may serve to amuse the second childhood of the wealthy,
[227] The subject—the art of moving about large trees in general, merely a pandering to our wilfulness and impatience,
[228] Intolerable dulness of the park and smooth lawn,
[229] Delightful sympathies with the objects and varied scenery of our peopled subalpine country,
[231] Sir Walter Scott’s curious effort to give consequence to the art of moving about large trees,
[233] Paroxysm of admiration of Sir Walter, at Sir Henry’s discoveries, with his hyperbolic figures of comparison,
[235] Account of the writer’s practice in moving trees of considerable size,
[245] Taste of Sir Walter Scott for “home-keeping squires,” practisers of the Allanton system,
[265] Consideration of the accuracy of some of Sir Henry’s assertions regarding the desiccated epidermis of trees, and the elongation of the shoots of plants,
[282] Sir Henry’s assertion that quick-grown timber is inferior to slow-grown, and that culture necessarily renders it softer, less solid, and less durable, not correct,
[287] The present climate of Scotland, and of the Orkneys and Shetlands, inferior to a former,
[288] That this may have been owing to these islands having once been a portion of the continent,
[289] The recent advance and recession of the German Ocean, render a former junction with the continent not improbable,
[305] Mr Loudon’s statement, of the effect produced by pruning on the quality and quantity of the timber, that trees produce the best timber in their natural locality, not supported by facts,
[307]
The apparent use of the infinite seedling varieties of plants,
ib. Formation of nitre the probable cause of the fertilizing quality of these walls,
ib. The fertilizing influence of summer fallow may in part be owing to the formation of nitre and other salts,
[326] That there is a deficiency of these salts in some places of the world, and an excess in others,
[327] Ignorance of Mr Cruickshank regarding the location of certain kinds of trees,
[330] Mr Cruickshank’s reprehension of the practice of covering fir seeds half an inch deep in England, and of forcing suitable earth for nurseries where awanting,
[331] Best method of transplanting seedlings in the nursery row,
ib. Quotation worthy the attention of planters,
[334] Error of authors on the location of trees, in inculcating a determinate character of soil as generally necessary for each kind of tree,
[335] Further errors of Mr Cruickshank on the location of trees,
[338] Adaptation of Scots fir to moist soils, even to peat-moss,
[340] An account by Mr Cruickshank of the most economical and successful mode of planting moors and bleak mountains,
[343] Method of planting by the flat dibble or single notch,
[344] ————— ————— by the double notch or cross-slitting,
[349] Manner in which frost throws up the young plant from the soil,
[351] Mr Cruickshank’s plan of raising oak forest in situ from the seed,
[352] That although the bare plan given by our author, of sowing in situ, under the shelter of nurses, is good, his directions for executing it are not very judicious,
[353] Advantages of this plan which Mr Cruickshank has not noticed,
[356] That the power of ripening seed is not increased by shelter in proportion to the power of growing,
[357] That the line of seed ripening, and not the line of growing, regulates the natural distribution of plants in respect to climate,
ib. That oaks, under this plan of sowing in situ under shelter, can be extended to a climate inferior to the natural,
[358] That oaks grown in the low country, and best climate of Scotland, appear not to ripen the seed sufficiently. Thence the probability that oak now would not even keep its present locality in the low country of Scotland, although it may “be taught to rise in our” alpine country,
APPENDIX.
[363] NOTE A.—That universal empire is practicable only under naval power,
[370] Nautical and roving disposition of the superior breed which has spread westward over the maritime provinces of Britain, and over nearly the whole continent of North America,