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INDEX 



Pine, white, 26, 81, 94, 114, 121, 



191, 205, 207, 223, 227, 237, 



251, 261 

 western white, 103, 106, 237, 



239, 298 

 Planting, 87, 89, 93, 95, 97, 98, 



103, 135, 159, 175 

 Polewood coppice, 38, 178, 180 

 Preparation of soil, 112, 128, 159 

 Preparatory cuttings, 153, 163, 



181 



Primary cuttings, 165 

 Private forestry, 18, 20, 25 

 Progressive cleared strips, 133 

 Protection, from fire, 225 

 from insects, 309 

 of young growth, 68, 112, 



146, 150, 161, 174, 183 

 Pruning, 223 

 Public forestry, 15, 20 

 Pure stands, denned, 42 



Railroad fires, 245, 281, 294 



Red pine, 237, 251 



Reduction of supplies, 3 



Redwood, 4 



Regular form of forest, 31 



Removal cuttings, 151, 153, 161, 



163, 165, 184 

 Reproduction, cuttings, 27, 181 



by sprouts, 179 



effect of fire on, 242 



effect of insects on, 314 



method of, 87 

 Reserves in coppice, 177 

 Reserving, blocks of seed-trees, 

 36, 103, 105 



groups of seed -trees, 36, 116, 

 117 



scattered seed-trees, 36, 107 



thrifty standards, 36, 118 

 Returns from public forests, 20 

 Rigid diameter limit, defects of, 



60 

 Roads, use of, in fire protection, 



244, 246, 268, 269 

 Rotation, defined, 18 



Scattered seed -trees, reserved, 



36, 107, 109 

 results from, 113 

 second cutting, 126, 132, 145, 



150, 152, 184 

 system applied, 114 



Second growth, 116, 179, 206, 

 261, 270 



secondary cutting, 165 

 Seed, destruction of, 63, 314 



distribution of, 103, 104, 110, 

 120, 123, 124, 125, 129 



germination of 113, 124 

 Seed -cutting, 141, 144, 147, 153, 



156, 163, 165, 181 

 Seeding, 87, 89 

 Seed-trees, 63, 108 



character of, 111 



cost of, 114 



location of, 108 



left in groups, 116 



number of, 120 



selection of, 81 

 Selection, form, 31 



stands, improvement of, 219 

 Selection system, 35 



choice of, 72 



cost of, 67 



illustrated, 51, 55 



intensive development of, 69 



limitation of cut in, 48 



origin of, 44 



practical application of, 74 



results of, 71 



theory of, 45 



Shelter-wood system, 37, 137, 139, 

 148, 160, 167, 181, 195, 217 



advantages of, 139 



disadvantages of, 140 



cuttings in groups, 37, 164 



cuttings in strips, 37, 162 



cuttings, uniform, 37, 153 



intensive application of, 152 



primitive application of, 139, 

 141 



progressive development of, 

 150 



results of, 146 

 Signal systems, 288 

 Silvicultural systems, application 

 of, 39 " 



classification of, 34 



combination of, 38 



defined, 32 

 Silviculture, cost of, 18, 24 



defined, 7 



investments in, 18, 24 



objects of, 8 



Simple coppice, 38, 170, 171 

 Site, 204 



