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subsequent decrease in the woodland area throughout Britain, 

 we have lagged far behind continental countries with regard 

 to the improvement of our knowledge of Forestry. With the 

 present shrinkage in the agricultural and pastural value of land, 

 however, there certainly is now scope for applying a knowledge 

 of economic and purely financial Forestry, i. e. Sylviculture, to 

 considerable tracts that are now lying waste and unproductive. 

 It may perhaps be convenient, for the sake of ready refer- 

 ence, to give a short list of the chief works that have been 

 frequently quoted throughout the various chapters of this 

 book. These are : 



GREBE, Die Betriebs- und Ertragsregelung der Forste, and edit., 1879. 



NEY, Die Lehre vom Waldbau, 1885. 



WEBER, Die Aufgaben der Forstwirthschaft, in Lorey's Handbuch der 



Forstwissenschaft, vol. i. 1886. 

 WILLKOMM, Die Forstliche Flora von Deutschland und Oesterreich, 2nd 



edit., 1887. 



HESS, Der Forstschutz, and edit., vol. i. 1887 ; vol. ii. 1890. 

 GAYER, Die Forstbenutzung, 7th edit., 1888. 



Der Waldbau, 3rd edit., 1889. 

 R. HARTIG, Lehrbuch der Baumkrankheiten, and edit. 1889. 



Anatomic und Physiologic der Pflanzen, 1891. 



C. HEYER, Der Waldbau, 4th edit., vol. i. 1891 ; vol. ii. 1893. 

 RAMANN, Forstliche Bodenkunde und Klimatologie , 1893. 



J. NlSBET. 



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