INDEX 



185 



Hares, damage to plantations 



by, 127 



High meadow woods, the, 146 

 ] Holding Act, Small, 116 

 Holdings, small, 19, 103, 116- 



19 



Home-Grown Timber Com- 

 mittee, The, 54, 70, 74 



House-building schemes in 

 Britain, 80, 119 



Hylobius weevil, 72, 130 



Ireland, forestry in, 49 



Land Acquisition Act, 153 



area of afforestable land in 

 Britain, 107, 155 



for afforestation, methods 

 of acquisition, 152, 157 



in Britain, ownership of, 



152, 153 



required for afforestation, 



155-57 



Law, absence of a forest, in 

 Britain, 121 



forest, in Norman times, 18 

 Leasing land for afforestation, 



159 



Magna Charta, 20 

 Markets, requirements of 

 British timber in early times, 



25 



Matches, shortage of supplies 



during the war, no 

 Murman port and North 



Russian forests, 98 



New Forest, 13, 18, 21, 70 

 Nursery work (forest) during 

 the war, 70, 71 



Oak tree defoliator, 131 



Paper, shortage of supplies 



during the war, 1 1 1 

 Park, the, 18 

 Peace Conference and League 



of Nations, 163 



Pheasants and forestry, 133, 



Pit- wood supplies and the war, 



53 



Planting, cessation of, in 

 Britain, 27 



during the war, 69 



schemes in Britain, 104, 166 

 Protection of forests, 121 

 -- against animal (mammal) 



pests, 124 



--- bird pests, 128 

 --- domestic animals, 122, 



123 



--- fire, 122 

 --- game animals, 133 

 --- man, 121 

 --- noxious insects, 129 

 ---- plants and fungi, 132 

 Purlieu, 20, 23 



Rabbits, damage to planta- 



tions by, 124 

 Reconstruction Committee, ap- 



pointment of, during the 



war, 75 



Salonika, the timber market 



of, 93 



Scandinavian forests, 28 

 Sheep, acclimitisation problem, 



156 



Sporting lands required for 



afforestation, 155 

 State ownership of forest land, 



155, 157 

 State versus private forests, 



148 



Statute of Enclosure, 23 

 Statute of Woods, 24 

 Summary of conclusions on 



commercial forestry in 



Britain, 175 

 Sylva, Evelyn's, 25, 27 



Teak, introduction of Moul- 



mein, 28 

 Timber, British, decreased use 



of, 28, 29 



