INDEX 



235 



Pale tussock moth, 171 

 Paraffin emulsion, 2£0 

 Paris green, 219 

 Pine weevil, 177 



beotlL', 179 



beauty moth, 180 



8a\v-fiy, 181 



needle blister, 183 



bark blister, 183 



shoot tortrix moth, 180 



bud tortrix moth, ISO 

 Plantations, pure or mixed, 109 



weeding and thimiing, 134 

 Plantation fences, 88 



notes and tables, 217 

 Planting area, preparation of, 73 



division of, 104 

 Planting, in pits, 119 



notch, 121 



with dibbling iron, 123 

 planting hoe, 123 

 cylindrical and semi-cir- 

 cular spades, 124 



in squares (number per acre), 

 217 



in ejuilatoral triangles, 218 



inlines,219 

 Plashing hedges, 193 

 Pole table, 200 

 Preparation of nursery ground, 55 



ot pi -ntiug area, 73 

 Propagation of trees by cuttings, 



45 

 Protection of hedges, 191 



of seed-beds, 42 

 Pruning nursery plants, 66 



trees, 140 



hedges, 192 

 Puss moth, 177 

 Pyretkrum mixture, 220 



Q 



Quarter-girth measurements, 222 

 areas, 223 



R 



Rapidity of growth, 110 



Red rot, 170 



Roads and paths in nursery, 24 



Rood table, 211 

 Root fungus, 182 

 Rotation of crop, 125 



S 



Scarcements, 25 

 Seed, collection of, 28 



extraction of, 30 



storage of, 31 



buying, 32 



germinative capacity of, 32 



sowing, 30 

 Seed-beds, size of, 34 



making, 35 



weeding, 47 



protection of, 42 

 Seedlings, lifting, 48 



lining out, 55 

 Seedling pricker (Cardot's), 62 

 Shadebearing trees, 109 

 Shelter belts, 125 

 Size of nursery, 15 



of plants, 129 

 Slide rule (how to calculate by), 



226 

 Slopes of earth (natural), 210 



angles of, 210 

 Soil preparation, draininL;, 19 



pitting, ploughing, etc., 

 75 



improving trees, 109 

 Solid measure, 211 

 Sowing seeds in nursery, 36 

 on forest land, 115 



lath, 40 

 Spades, cylindrical, etc., 71 

 Spangle gaU, 170 

 Species for different soils, 107 

 Spruce gall aphis {Chermea able' 



tia), 186 

 Square measure, 208 

 Staples, gauges of, 215 

 Stem rot fungus, 182 

 Stocking the planting area, 107 

 Suppression of side branches, 110 



Tables, inch, square inch, etc., 204 

 Tending plantations, 133 

 Temporary nursery (advantage 

 of), 131 



