INDEX. 



Age suitable for cutting, 123. 



Altitude above the sea, 14. 



American white bug {Coccus lavicis), 231. 



American or microcavpa, 3. 



Ardkinglas tree*, 218. 



Ashdown Forest, Sussex, value of plan- 

 tations, 166. 



Aspect and exposure, 14. 



Athole frigate built of it in 1818, 15, 129. 



Athole forests, the largest in Britain, 196. 



Athole, Duke of, and "the mothers," 18, 

 129 ; anecdote of his gardener, 18 ; ex- 

 tensive planting by, 61 ; abstract of 

 woods and forests, 62 ; his forests, 168 ; 

 Loch Ordie and Loch Hoshnie, 169 : 

 cost of fencing, planting, &c., 173 ; 

 wide planting, 174 ; drawback of the 

 soil, (fee, 176 ; general success, 177, 194; 

 Ills extravagant expectation as to re- 

 turn from the wood, 196. 



Balltndai.loch Castle, larsre specimens 

 at, 123 ; table of girths and growth, 123. 



Bai-k, value of, for tanning, 132 ; the 

 inner, central, and outer, 149 ; its com- 

 mercial value, 150, 153 ; best time for 

 stripping, 151 ; harvesting of, 152 ; 

 amount yielded, 153 ; tannin, property 

 of, 153; demand for, 154; Wilkie on 

 its value, 156 ; its varied appearance, 

 274. 



Bark disease, or blister, 224, 228 ; its 

 cause, 272. 



Bedford, Duke of, value of plantation 

 in Huntingdon, 167 ; do, Thornhaugh, 

 Northamptonshire, 167. 



Bien forest of Huntly, 68. 



Black larch, 2 ; its great weight, 3; used 

 in ship-building. 3. 



Blair and Dunkeld est ites, destruction of 

 trees on, in 1879, 1881, 40. 



Blister or ulcer, 224, 228 ; the cause of, 

 272. 



Blowing down of trees, prevention of, 

 277. 



Botanical characteristics, i ; differs from 

 all trees of same tribe, i. 



Branches constructed to bear great 

 weight, 117. 



Branches and wood, weight of, 147, 148. 



Brown, Mr., his experience in Midlo- 

 thian, 177. 



Buccleuch, failure on his estates, 136. 



Buds in a dormant state, 41. 



Cavdolle, M. de, Geneva, letter to "Quar- 

 terlj' Journal of Agriculture," 244. 



Caterpillar, 71. 



Clay soils fatal, 37. 



Clearing of ravines, 39. 



Close planting, evil effects of, 112. 



Coccus lavicis, 71. 



Commercial product, unsuitability as, 

 117. 



Continental planting wider than home, 

 250. 



Corky bark, 225. 



Crabbe, Mr. J., Glamis Castle, on value 

 of plantations, 178. 



Crop, value as a, in Sussex, 158 ; in In- 

 verness-shiro, 159, 162 ; in Ross-shire, 

 160 ; in Aberdeenshire, 161 ; in Rox- 

 burghshire, 163; in Ashdown Forest, 

 Sussex, 165 ; Innescara, county Cork, 

 Ireland, 180; Durris, Deeside, 180; 

 Hill of Fare, Aberdeenshire, 180 ; Mo- 

 nymusk, 180. 



Cullen estate, valuation of crop, 122. 



Culture, early modes of, 18. 



Curculio beetle, 72. 



Deep planting a cause of disease, 234. 



Defoliation, 12. 



Degenerates from change of climate, 124. 



Diseases, rot, 16 ; blight, 17 ; ulcer or 

 blister, 224, 228; ground-rot, 229; 

 trunk-rot, 230 ; roy, 230 ; engendered 

 in nurseries by stimulating and crowd- 

 ing, 233 ; mildew, 238. 



Diseased seed, effect of, does not extend 

 beyond the nursery line, 205 ; more 

 liable to attack from blight, insects, 

 &c., 266. 



Double tops, 113. 



