 Antwerp, saw, not long since, on the opposite side of the Schelde only a vast desert plain ; now he sees a forest, the limits of which are confounded with the horizon. Let him enter within its shade. The supposed forest is but a system of regular rows...  Pine Plantations on the Sand-wastes of France - Seite 3von John Croumbie Brown - 1878 - 172 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1865 - 581 Seiten
...its shade. The supposed forest is but a system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age. These , plantations have ameliorated...is violently agitating their tops, the air a little helow is still, and sands far more barren than the plateau of La Hague have heen transformed, under... | |
 | United States Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 660 Seiten
...sterility by simply planting regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age. While the tempest is violently agitating their tops, the air a little below is still, and sands the most barren have, under their protection, been transformed into fertile fields. For many illustrations... | |
 | Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866 - 664 Seiten
...sterility by simply planting regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age. While the tempest is violently agitating their tops, the air a little below is still, and sands the most barren have, tinder their protection, been transformed into fertile fields. For many illustrations... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1866 - 656 Seiten
...sterility by simply planting regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age. While the tempest is violently agitating their tops, the air a little below is still, and sands the most barren have, under their protection, been transformed into fertile fields. For many illustrations... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - 1865 - 442 Seiten
...system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not forty years of age. These plantations hare ameliorated the climate which had doomed to sterility...still, and sands far more barren than the plateau of La Hagne have been transformed, under their protection, into fertile fields."— Rmu da Dtvx Monda, January,... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1882 - 720 Seiten
...its shade. The supposed forest is hut a system of regular rows of trees, the "1'lest of which is not forty years of age. These plantations have ameliorated...doomed to sterility the soil where they are planted, ^hile the tempest is violently agitating their top<, the air a little below is nill. and sands far... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1883 - 498 Seiten
...shade; — the supposed forest U but a system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is HOT forty years of age. These plantations have ameliorated...which had doomed to sterility the soil where they arc planted. While the tempest is violently agitating their tops, the air a little below is still,... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1883 - 498 Seiten
...— the supposed forest is but a system of regular rows of trees, the oldest of which is not furty years of age. These plantations have ameliorated the...which had doomed to sterility the soil where they nre planted. While the tempest is violently agitating their tops, the air a little below is still,... | |
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