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On Naval Timber and Arboriculture
Patrick Matthew
Patrick Matthew wrote a book about growing oak for warships, and tucked into its notes a clear statement of natural selection years before Darwin. Beyond that famous glimpse lies real expertise on forest trees, timber and the training of naval oak. Forestry with a footnote that shook biology. Read the arborist who nearly scooped the century's biggest idea.
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48 chapters
- 1ON NAVAL TIMBER.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION.
- 6PART I. STRUCTURE OF VESSELS.
- 7SECTION I. PLANK.
- 8DIRECTIONS FOR TRAINING PLANK TIMBER.
- 9SECTION II. TIMBERS.
- 10NOTES TO PART I.
- 11PART II. BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER.
- 12OAK—Quercus.
- 13SPANISH CHESTNUT—Castanea vulgaris, (Fagus Castanea, L.)
- 14BEECH-TREE—Fagus sylvatica.
- 15ELM—Ulmus.—BROAD-LEAVED, OR SCOTCH, or WYCH ELM—Ulmus montana.
- 16NARROW-LEAVED OR ENGLISH ELM—Ulmus campestris.
- 17REDWOOD WILLOW, or STAG’S HEAD OZIER,—Salix fragilis13.
- 18RED-WOOD PINE—Pinus.
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