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 575
ly planted Trees against Wind. Gulliver among the Lilliputians, who was held down, not bythe thickness, but the number, of the ligatures they employed. Ihave, for instance, on my grass-plat a young crimson thorn,the head of which is handsome, but large in proportion to thesize and strength of the… … and, by conse-quence, a risk of chafing.Then I caught a sight of the prospectus of your Suburban Gardener, in the which is depicted a tree, whose branches are tied to its own body, and thus made to weep against its will. The device found favour in my eyes, and I forthwith resolved to set the…
