Growing Gold Or A Treatise On The Cultivation Of British Oak

Excerpt from Growing Gold, or a Treatise on the Cultivation of British Oak The aggrandizement and security of the powers of one's own country is the duty of every man,16 says the illustrious Hero of a Hundred Fights. The posses sion of a large store of timber, and of trees growing to timber, on the British Isles, is unquestionably now, as heretofore, necessary to the nation to maintain its naval and commercial power, prosperity and security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.