Index. 



879 



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Influence of trees on rainfall . 767 

 Insects injurious to trees . . 284 

 Jubilee of i\[r. 11. Foulis, forester, 



&c., at Fordell, Fife . .520 

 Longleat Estate timber sale . 370 

 Mr. Gladstone and tree-felling . 804 

 New roots to old trees . . 108 

 Obituary— Mr. R. Foulis , . G77 

 Old trees at Shobdon Court . 259 

 Owens and Co.'s hydraulic ram 



(illustrated) . . . .141 

 Ticca nohills seedlings . .761 

 Plant growth . . . .131 

 Plant pathology . , .129 



Planting at Blair Athole . . 294 

 Preservation of timber . . 286 

 Preserving fence posts . .216 

 Price of hop-poles ... 38 

 Prices reali;ied for timber in 



Morayshire . . . .132 

 Ransome's patent steam tree- 

 feller (illustrated) . . 69, 730 

 Rats in nurseries . . .137 

 Remarkable silver firs . . 282 

 Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone as 



a woodward .... 518 

 Rules for willow planters . . 215 

 Sale of timber in Roxburghshire 237 

 Sale of wood at Meldrum House, 



Aberdeenshire . . . 103 

 Sale of wood in Roxburghshire . 711 

 Sales of British timber . 735, 873 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 list of prizes offered by the 65, 728 

 „ ,, (annual meeting) 560 



Shank's new vertical steam en- 

 gine (illustrated) . , . 444 

 Smith, G. B. , & Co. 's iron-fencing 717 

 Some Edinburgh nurseries . 512 



Straw trade .... 734 

 The bug attacking silver fir . 250 

 The Hriodendron . . .848 

 The omnivorous caterpillar . 353 

 The original Ribston pippin 



apple tree .... 842 

 The right of " pannage " . . 750 

 Ihe ye-v {TaxMs baccata) . . 203 

 Tree-planting and South African 



forests ..... 292 

 Tree planting in Washington . 831 

 Underwood and timber planta- 

 tions 135 



Use of dynamite for agricultural 



purposes .... 805 

 Use ot dynamite for forestry pur- 

 poses 872 



Wclli)i(/to)tia gigantea pcndxila 



vera (illustrated) . . . 519 

 Woods and woodlands . 799, 866 



Forest Soxgs and Poetry : — 



The woodman's craft ... 87 



Extract from the "Faerie Queene" 164 



The walnut .... 246 



Extract from "The Epic of a Day" 664 



Forest haunts .... 736 



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Forest Work for the Moxth tx 

 Enqland, Scotland, Wales, and 

 Ireland : — 

 May, 46 ; June, 109 ; July, 184 ; 

 August, 263 ; September, 348; Octo- 

 ber,420; November, 492; December, 

 573 ; January, 648 ; February, 712 ; 

 March, 781 ; April , ,851 



Editor's Box : — 

 Abies Douglasii 

 A friendly criticism 

 Age of trees 

 A good suggestion 

 American planting 

 A Spanish critic 

 Axe handles 



Axe V, saw felling of timber 723, 724 



787 

 114 

 361 

 189 

 64 

 433 

 579 



Barking timber . 



Batting materials 



Black game 



Black Italian poplar . 



Clearing land from tree roots 



(tonite) 

 Clearing plantation ground 

 Corsican pine and ground game 

 CuUen prices . 195, 276, 356, 429 

 430, 431 

 Estates management . . .718 

 Felling timber . . . .580 

 Fixing gate and fence posts . 581 

 Forest schools, the Edinburgh 



Arboretum .... 

 General remarks . , . 

 " Golynos " oak . . . 



Gi'eat trees of California . 

 Growth of larch 

 Hand-bills .... 

 Important sale of trees and shrubs 

 Iron prongs for fencing 

 Italian poplar .... 

 Larch fencing posts . 

 Large and remarkable trees 



,, bog oak .... 



,, yew trees 

 Modes of measuring timber 189, 

 Oak-bark season 

 Our illustrations 

 Paris exhibition 

 Pine beetle .... 



,, in Hampshire . 



Planting trees and shrubs . 

 Plant pathology 

 Poplars on Clapham Common . 

 Poplar tree . . . Ill, 

 Preserving wood posts 275, 354, 



355, 426, 427, 428, 497, 498, 585 

 (illustrated) 

 Prices of larch bark . . . 432 



„ of timber . . .199 



„ for sawing . 118, 268, 360 

 Prospects of advancement of 



under foresters . . . 788 

 Protecting river-sides . . 402 



859 

 113 

 274, 358 

 197 



719 

 435 

 723 



582 

 118 

 200 

 856 

 501 

 606 

 539 

 655 

 273 

 587 

 542 

 859 

 502 

 190 

 117 

 503 

 718 

 581 

 501 

 434 

 271 

 193 

 202 



