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Sylva

by John Evelyn

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Author
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706
Title
Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2)
Credits
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Language
English
LoC Class
SD: Agriculture: Forestry
Subject
Trees -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
eBook-No.
20778
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20778
Release Date
March 8, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber’s notes — SYLVA: OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES & THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER V O L U M E O N E
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — VOLUME I. — VOLUME II .
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — I Evelyn & his literary contemporaries Isaac Walton & Samuel Pepys. — II Evelyn’s Childhood, Early Education, and Youth. — III Evelyn’s Early Manhood, Continental Travels and Studies, Voluntary Exile, and Return to England 1647. — IV Evelyn’s Attitude during the Commonwealth 1647-1660. — V Evelyn’s Career after the Restoration. (1660-1685). — VI Evelyn’s Declining Years (1685-1706). — VII Evelyn’s Literary Works. — VIII Evelyn’s Influence on British Arboriculture.
  4. 4.TO THE KING.
  5. 5.TO THE READER.
  6. 6.ADVERTISEMENT.
  7. 7.BOOKS Published by the AUTHOR of this Discourse
  8. 8.Amico carissimo Johanni Evelyno , Armigero, e Societate Regali Londini, J. Beale, S.P.D. In Silvam.
  9. 9.Nobilissimo Viro Johanni Evelyno , Regalis Soc. Socio dignissimo .
  10. 10.ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΙΑΝ
  11. 11.THE G A R D E N. To J. Evelyn, Esquire.
  12. 12.CHAPTER I. Of the Earth, Soil, Seed, Air, and Water.
  13. 13.CHAPTER II. Of the Seminary and of Transplanting.
  14. 14.CHAPTER III. Of the Oak.
  15. 15.CHAPTER IV. Of the Elm.
  16. 16.CHAPTER V. Of the Beech.
  17. 17.CHAPTER VI. Of the Horn-beam.
  18. 18.CHAPTER VII. Of the Ash.
  19. 19.CHAPTER VIII. Of the Chesnut.
  20. 20.CHAPTER IX. Of the Wallnut.
  21. 21.CHAPTER X. Of the Service, and black cherry-tree.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XI. Of the Maple.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XII. Of the Sycomor.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIII. Of the Lime-Tree.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIV. Of the Poplar, Aspen, and Abele.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XV. Of the Quick-Beam.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XVI. Of the Hasel.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XVII. Of the Birch.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Alder.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XIX. Of the Withy, Sallow, Ozier, and Willow.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XX. Of Fences, Quick-sets, &c.
  32. 32.CHAPTER I. Of the Mulberry.
  33. 33.CHAPTER II. Of the Platanus, Lotus, Cornus, Acacia , &c.
  34. 34.CHAPTER III. Of the Fir, Pine, Pinaster, Pitch-tree, Larsh, and Subterranean trees.
  35. 35.CHAPTER IV. Of the Cedar, Juniper, Cypress, Savine, Thuya &c.
  36. 36.CHAPTER V. Of the Cork, Ilex, Alaternus, Celastrus, Ligustrum, Philyrea, Myrtil, Lentiscus, Olive, Granade, Syring, Jasmine and other Exoticks.
  37. 37.CHAPTER VI. Of the Arbutus, Box, Yew, Holly, Pyracanth, Laurel, Bay, &c.
  38. 38.CHAPTER VII. Of the infirmities of trees, &c.

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