field-vegetables

Updated: July 2, 2025

Thus in Germany acorns are sown and the young seedlings cultivated like ordinary field-vegetables, and cut at the age of a very few years for the sake of the bark and young twigs used by tanners. In England, trees are grown at the rate of two thousand to the acre, and cut for props in the mines at the diameter of a few inches. Financial Results of Forest Plantation.

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action