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INDEX. 



Nursery, pricking out of plants, 109 

 ,, quality and quantity of 



seed, 108 



,, shape of, 99 

 ,, sowing seed-beds, 105 

 ,, tending, 114 

 ,, watering, 100 

 ,, weeding, 116 



0. 



Oak, as overwood, 226 



,, notes on, 241, 330 

 Objects of pruning, 200 

 Open woods, forms of treatment, 

 223 



,, ,, tending of, 221 



P. 



Palings, wooden, 14 



Pan, 21 



Partial sowing, 62 



Patches, sowing in, 64 



Peat bogs, 31 



Peg, planting with, 123 



Percentage of germination of seeds, 



45 



Picea excelsa, notes on, 290, 323 

 Pine, Baltic, 290, 296 



,, black or Austrian, notes 

 on, 303, 326 



red, 296 



,, Scotch, notes on, 296, 325 



,, Weymouth, notes on, 306, 

 327 



,, white, 290, 306 

 Pimis Laricio, var. Aust., notes on, 

 303, 326 



,, Pinaster, 36 



,, Strobus, notes on, 306, 327 



sylvestris, notes on, 296, 325 

 Pits, sowing in, 67 

 Planting, 70 



,, advantages of regular, 78 



Planting, density of, 76 



,, general rules for, 117 



,, in lines, 77 



,, ,, quincunx figures, 78 



,, ,, squares, 77 



,, ,, triangles, 77 



,, on mounds, 128 



,, season for, 74 



,, spots, marking of, 80 



,, versus direct sowing, 170 



,, methods of, 117 



,, with balls of earth, 118 



,, ,, hoe or spade, 120 



,, ,, peg or staff, 123 



,, ,, slips, layers, or 



suckers, 129 



, , without balls of earth, 120 

 Plants, age of, 74 



, , distribution of, over area, 77 

 ,, from existing woods, 96 

 ,, in transit, protection of, 92 

 ,, kinds of, 71 

 lifting of, 86 

 ,, number of, 84 

 ,, pricking out of , 110 

 ,, pruning of, 90 

 ,, purchase of, 95 

 ,, quality of, 72 

 ,, raising of, 94 

 ,, size of, 74 

 Pollarding, 168 

 Poplar, notes on, 275, 337 

 Populus, notes on, 275 

 Power of accommodation of species, 



9 

 Practical Sylviculture, definition 



of, 3 



Preliminary works, 4 

 Preparation of seed-beds, 137 



, , of soil for sowing broad- 

 cast, 56 

 ,, of soil in nurseries, 



101 



,, of soil for planting, 94 

 Preparatory stage, nat. regenera- 

 tion, 136 



