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INDEX 



Oak, 57 



forecast of future prices, 45, 60, 



98 

 pure and mixed woods, 45 

 sowing, 58 

 thinning, 38 

 under-planting, 65 

 varieties, 57 



Pit-props, 74, 120 



Plantations, probable yield, 98, 99 



ground plan, 19 



receipts from, 100 



size, 9, 12 

 Planting, 3 



advantages, 83, 90, 93 



by contract, 134 



methods, 20 



site of old woods, 52, 97 



size of trees, 21 



table, 152 



time for, 18 

 Ploughing, 8 

 Poplar, 62 

 Profit of timber growing, ix, 90, 



114 

 Public Health Act, 1895, 160 

 Pure woods, 45 



Quarter-girth, 143 

 Quincunx, 20 



Rabbits, 13 



Rating, 157 



Rental yield of plantations, 100 

 Railway companies, 144 

 Replanting, 52 



Scotch fir, 73 



seeds, 74 



afforestation, 134 

 Shelter belts, 81, 84 

 Silver fir, 76 

 Sitka spruce, 75 

 Situation, 6 



Small holdings, 127, 134 

 Soil, 6, 8, 54, 60, 72, 82 

 Spruce, 75 



Struggle for existence, 15 

 Sycamore, 67 



Taper, 150 

 Thinning, 29, 34 

 Timber, best form of, 32 



profits, 89, 98, 100, 114 

 Transplants, 19,20 

 Trenching, 8 



Under-planting, 66 

 Unimproved state, 158 



Weeds, 22 



Wide-planting, 15, 17 

 Wire, 12 



Woodsy depreciatory opinion of 

 English, xi, 108 



Printed in Oreat Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, 

 for Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 



