PREFACE 



THIS book is, by permission, based on Schlich's Manual of 

 Forestry. It has been written to supply a cheap book on 

 scientific forestry for foresters and woodmen, few of whom can 

 afford the more expensive works, and was at first drawn up 

 for the use of the School of Forestry for Working Men in the 

 Forest of Dean. I am greatly indebted to Sir William Schlich, 

 K.C.I. E., F.R.S., Professor of Forestry in the University of 

 Oxford, and to the late Mr. W. R. Fisher, under whom 

 I studied the subject while at Cooper's Hill College, forgiving 

 me permission to make use of the Manual of Forestry and to 

 reproduce some of the illustrations from that work. I have 

 also referred in Chapter I to Gifford Pinchot's A Primer of 

 Forestry ', and to Bridges's and Dicks's Plant Study ; I have 

 occasionally referred to Nisbet's The Forester^ Forbes's 

 English Estate Forestry^ Simpson's The New Forestry and 

 The Estate Nursery. The part on hedges is indebted to 

 Maiden's Hedges and Hedgemaking. Most of the photographs 

 were taken by myself; some are by Mr. R. C. Milward or 

 Mr. M. C. Duchesne, who have kindly allowed me to repro- 

 duce them. The other illustrations are from Schlich's Manual. 

 My thanks are due to Mr. E. P. Popert, Consulting Forester 

 to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and to 

 Mr. A. G. Hobart-Hampden, Agent to the Earl of Bucking- 

 hamshire, both retired Conservators of the Indian Forest 

 Department, for reading through the manuscript and for much 

 valuable advice and help in its preparation, and to Professor 

 J. Bretland Farmer for revising the botanical part of the book. 



C. O. HANSON. 



LATIMER LODGE, CINDERFORD, 

 1911. 



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