A Year's Residence in the United States of America, Part 1

A Year's Residence in the United States of America, Part 1

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0557487773

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"The farms are so many plots originally scooped out of woods; though in King's and Queen's counties the land is generally pretty much deprived of the woods, which, as in every other part of America that I have seen, are beautiful beyond all description. The Walnut of two or three sorts, the Plane; the Hickory, Chestnut, Tulip Tree, Cedar, Sassafras, Wild Cherry, (sometimes 60 feet high); more than fifty sorts of Oaks; and many other trees, but especially the Flowering Locust, or Accasia, which, in my opinion, surpasses all other trees, and some of which, in this Island, are of a very great height and girt. The Orchards constitute a feature of great beauty. Every farm has its orchard, and, in general, of cherries as well as of apples and pears. Of the cultivation and crops of these, I shall speak in another part of the work." -- William Cobbett


A Year's Residence in the United States of America Part 3

A Year's Residence in the United States of America Part 3

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 110532866X

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"The farms are so many plots originally scooped out of woods; though in King's and Queen's counties the land is generally pretty much deprived of the woods, which, as in every other part of America that I have seen, are beautiful beyond all description. The Walnut of two or three sorts, the Plane; the Hickory, Chestnut, Tulip Tree, Cedar, Sassafras, Wild Cherry, (sometimes 60 feet high); more than fifty sorts of Oaks; and many other trees, but especially the Flowering Locust, or Accasia, which, in my opinion, surpasses all other trees, and some of which, in this Island, are of a very great height and girt. The Orchards constitute a feature of great beauty. Every farm has its orchard, and, in general, of cherries as well as of apples and pears. Of the cultivation and crops of these, I shall speak in another part of the work." -- William Cobbett


A Year's Residence in the United States of America

A Year's Residence in the United States of America

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1108032702

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The English political reformer William Cobbett (1763-1835) discusses the practicalities of farming in America in this 1818-9 publication.