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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 411

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Exotic Nursery, Kings Hoad, May 18. 1840. Art. V. Description of an Instrument used for taking the Heights ofTrees. By H. W. Jukes, Esq. In the autumn of 1836 I spent several months at StudleyRoyal, in Yorkshire, the residence of Miss Lawrence, makingportraits of trees for the Arboretum… … to an inch. This instrument consists of a thin board of oak,2 ft. 9 in. long, shaped like a gun-stock, the end a being adaptedfor the shoulder, the muzzle or line b c for taking a sight ofthe top of the tree, and the square, of which c d\s o, side, beingmarked or cut on the board at the farther…

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