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 Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, and to the late Mr. W. R. Fisher, 

 under whom I studied the subject while at Cooper's 

 Hill College, for giving 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 reproduce them. The 

 other illustrations are from Schlich's Manual. My 



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