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 576
chafing. How, indeed, shouldcirculation be impeded, when the cord, being tied in a prettylarge noose, has a bearing only on the upper part of the boughto which it is attached ? So much for a tree which happenedto be already previously well staked; but I have every reasonto believe that the cords… … just give, as an instance, another young thorn, the head ofwhich, like many other heads you and I have known, hadbeen turned, and, in fact, was becoming quite deformed by theaction of the wind, as in Jig. 137. Now, only see what may be done by the Gulliver principle.Here is the same tree brought by…
