Self-instruction for young gardeners, foresters, bailiffs, land-stewards, and farmers; in arithmetic and bookkeeping, geometry, mensuration, and practical trigonometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics, land-surveying, levelling, planning, and mapping, architectural drawing, and isometrical projection and perspective: with examples, showing their application to horticultural and agricultural purposes / By the late J.C. Louden. With a memoir of the author [by Mrs. Loudon].

  • Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Self-instruction for young gardeners, foresters, bailiffs, land-stewards, and farmers; in arithmetic and bookkeeping, geometry, mensuration, and practical trigonometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics, land-surveying, levelling, planning, and mapping, architectural drawing, and isometrical projection and perspective: with examples, showing their application to horticultural and agricultural purposes / By the late J.C. Louden. With a memoir of the author [by Mrs. Loudon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of an orange tree, and dexterously introducing through these a rose tree, or any other plant which it is wished shall appear to have been grafted on the orange. Care is taken not to injure the roots of either; and, if put cautiously into the ground, both will produce leaves and flowers. The next place he visited was Bologna, near which he passed a day or two with an Italian family who were en¬ joying the pleasures of the vintage. He then went through Ferrara to Venice; the first part of the road to which was bordered by hedges, in which were vines laden with grapes hanging from tree to tree. At Deux Ponts, he embarked in a boat, and found the canal nearly all the way to Venice full of beautiful aquatic plants, among which was the Vallisneri«. He was very much struck with the imposing view that he first obtained of Venice, including the grand square of St. Mark, with its winged lion on a granite column. He also remarked the freshness and brilliancy of the paintings ; and he noticed that the Post-office at Venice was built upon immense piles of logwood. The whole of the first night that he passed in Venice he was unable to sleep, from the number of persons that were singing in parties in the streets. The following morning he hired a gondola, and went through the city, with which he was exceedingly delighted; for, as he says, emphatically, It is impossible to know what Italian architecture and Italian paintings really are, without seeing those at Venice.” Before leaving this splendid city, he procured a living plant of the Vallisnerin, which he placed in a little tin can containing water, and carried himself, when he was travelling, lest any harm should happen to it. The next place he visited was Padua, where lie saw the celebrated Botanic Harden. The road from this to Vicenza was bordered with hedges of T/ibiscus syriacus. He had now entered upon the district where silk is chiefly pro¬ duced, and found on each side of the road vast plantations of white mulberry trees. Thence he proceeded to Milan ; after which he visited the splendid gardens of Monza, with which he was most exceedingly delighted. He found