The London Journal of Botany, 1843, Vol. 2

Download or read book The London Journal of Botany, 1843, Vol. 2 written by W. J. Hooker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The London Journal of Botany, 1843, Vol. 2: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as Recommend Themselves by Their Novelty, Rarity, History, or Uses; Together With Botanical Notices and Information, and Occasional Memoirs of Eminent Botanists In the vicinity of Horta, the land is almost all under culti vation, having been converted into gardens, orange orchards, and cultivated fields, which are fenced by stone walls, with very narrow and rugged roads winding between them, also anked by the monotonous stone walls. Living reeds are almost the only other material used for fences and planted in rows, they answer this purpose very well, growing ten feet high and upwards, so as to constitute an excellent protection against the violence of the Atlantic gales, before which their elastic stems bend without breaking. Against the trespasses of man they can be no defence; but by cutting down some of them to be tied as rails across those which are left growing, a suficient fence against cattle may readily be made. There is a constant renovation of these reed hedges from the succession Of suckers thrown out by their roots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."