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INDEX 



Seeding, experimental, 16. 



factors which determine success in, 

 207. 



lath, 274. 



machines, 213. 



methods of, 210-229, 267-280, 305- 

 307. 



silvical basis for, 3. 



time of, 104, 209, 265-267. 



trough, 273. 

 Seeding and planting, choice between, 



82, 84. 

 Seedlings, classification of, 327. 



size of, 301-302. 

 Semi-circular spade, 433. 

 Semi-conical spade, 405. 

 Shoot cuttings, 6, 7, 396-399. 

 Short-handled grub-hoe, 430. 

 Silvics, definition of, 3. 

 Silviculture, definition of, 3. 

 Site factors, 3, 20, 21, 40-43. 

 Skinner system of irrigation, 247-248. 

 Slit planting, 414-420. 

 Smith tree digger, 331. 

 Snow, mechanical effect of on choice 



of species, 28. 

 Snow pit, for storing nursery stock, 



337. 



Soil, factors, effect on choice of spe- 

 cies, 31-36. 



fertility of, 250-261. 



reclamation of, 188-198. 



tillage, 198-202. 

 Soiling crops, 253, 254. 

 Spacing, in planting, 376-383. 



in transplant beds, 310-311. 



principles which determine, 52-60. 

 Spade, planting with, 404-406, 415, 



428-429. 

 Species, choice of, 16-39, 43-51. 



dependent in pure stands, 62-63 



tolerant in pure stands, 62. 

 Spiral borer, 227. 

 Spitzenberg's drill former, 272. 



planting box, 431. 



planting dagger, 409. 



seed coverer, 276. 



wheel hoe, 299. 



Splettstosser's planting method, 440. 

 Spring planting, 375. 

 Spruce, 54, 68, 148, 167, 211, 284, 291, 

 386. 



black, 129, 130. 



blue, 102, 129. 



Engelmann, 20, 102, 130, 284. 



Norway, 18, 62, 81, 92, 98, 135, 

 282, 302, 356, 386. 



red, 102, 212,282, 284, 302. 



Sitka, 129, 130, 211, 212. 



white, 130, 282. 

 Squirrels, damage by, 104, 176-179, 



346. 



Stainer's germinating apparatus, 117. 

 Stands, mixed, 64-70. 



pure, 62-64. 

 State nurseries, New York, 357. 



Vermont, 356. 

 Stem girdle, 356. 

 Stool shoots, '6, 7. 

 Storage of seed, loss in, 103-105. 



methods of, 166-174. 

 Stratification of seed, 104, 121, 168 

 Stream flow, regulation of, 45. 

 Stringing table, 317-318. 

 Subsoil, impervious, 31, 190. 

 Sub-irrigation, 249. 

 Suckers, root, 6-7, 395-396. 

 Summer planting, 373. 

 Sun scorch, 348. 

 Sycamore, 140, 148, 302. 



Tamarack, 148. 



Thuya, 397. 



Tillage of forest soil, 198-202. 



Timber culture act, 362. 



T-notching, 416. 



Torsion rake, 227. 



Transplant beds, 307-309, 310-311, 



324. 

 Transplanting, methods of, 312-325. 



season for, 309-310. 



spacing in, 310-311. 

 Transpiration current, in relation to 



evaporation, 26-27. 

 Transport, of nursery stock, 338-343. 



of seeds, 174. 



