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INDEX. 



for furuitiire, 131 ; for mining, 132 ; in 

 Switzerland, 132 ; for railway sleepers, 

 &.C., 134; in Veiiice, 194. 



Valuator's book, form of, 87. 



Value of timber, 14 ; of a young planta- 

 tion, 85 ; of an old, 88 ; and uses of 

 wood, 129 ; as a crop, 158. 



Varieties, 24 ; Tyrolese, Swiss, andScotcii, 

 25-27. 



Venice turpentine fr'm, 137. 



Venice, greatly used in buildings in, 9, 

 194; and in shipbuilding, 21. 



Vessels built of it in Scotland, 129, 130. 



Vosges forests, 247. 



Wales, remunerative plantations, 135. 

 Warm seasons a preventative to disease, 



225. 

 Weight of timber, 14. 

 Wliins, growing among, 47. 

 White and red flowering varieties, 270. 

 Why does the wood twist? 118. 

 Wilkie, Mr, J., Ardkinglas, on value of 



bark, 156 ; on value of wood, 179. 

 Winter best time for cutting, 119. 

 Wood and branches, weight of, 147, 148. 



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