The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 314
being of a yellow-reddish hue, he can discern proper subjects forcutting down at a great distance. The tree is commonly cut about 10 oi-ls ft. from the ground; the trunk is considered the most valuable part;but the wood of the limbs is much closer in the grain, and the veins morerich and… … Botanical Miscellany. 305 prime cost of the timber. Each mahogany work forms in itself a small vil-lage on the bank of a river; the choice of situation being always^ regulatedby the proximity of such river to the mahogany intended as the object offuture research. After the habitations are arranged,…