Our Introductory Note. 3 



The following, among other possible sections, may be named : 



Descriptive Forestry. — Giving sketches of the best-known forest wood- 

 lands of our times, their extent, their variety, their products, their 

 management, and the localities in which they are situated. 



Historic Forestry. — Notices of the ancient afforested lands of th 

 Crown and the Barons, the laws and customs regulating them, the 

 events of which they have been the scenes, and the changes that 

 have taken place upon them. 



Scientific Forestry. — Both as a department of botany, and an ap- 

 plication of the teachings of chemistry, geology, mechanics, miner- 

 alogy, physiology, and zoology in their relation to the culture of 

 trees, or Arboriculture ; and to this may be added surveying, men- 

 suration, draining, embanking, and such engineering as is implied in 

 resisting the encroachment of sands, the prevention of landslips, the 

 construction of roads, bridges, &c. 



Legal Forestry.— ^w^^ly'mg an account of the laws and regulations 

 made in this and other countries, for forest administration, conser- 

 vation, and improvement; estimates of their workiuo-, records of 

 their effects, and discussions as to their utility, together with suo- 

 gestions for their alteration or amendment. 



Sanitary Forestry. — Tracing the effects of trees in screening the soil 

 from the scorching heat of the sun, in the diffusion of moisture 

 through the air, in their aid to the circulation of water alono- the 

 earth, and in their agency in regard to the radiation of heat; showino- 

 the interaction of vegetable and animal life on each other, the advan- 

 tages of public parks and timber-trees in large cities, and many other 

 ways in which trees promote the amelioration of climate and the 

 increase of the general health of communities. 



Economic Forestry. — Affording information concerning timber 

 products and their uses in the thousand industrial arts to which 

 they are essential; the species of wood most suitable for culture 

 in particular neighbourhoods where there are special industries ; 

 the timber products having the best claim on growers on account of 

 tlieir utility and their relation to the wants of the community ; and 

 supplying forecasts of the timber requirements of future years, 

 drawn from a knowledge of the progress of those trades in which 

 wood is largely used. 



Practical Forestry, or Arboriculture proper, i. e., the planting and 

 management of timber-trees as an investment and an industry, with 

 all the questions which suggest themselves in actual experience as to 

 climate and soil ; raising from seed or planting from the nursery ; 

 methods of planting and the management of wood-growth ; of thin- 

 ning and pruning ; of exposure and shelter ; of the relative merits of 

 mixed and simple plantations ; of hedgerows and coppice-wood ; of 



