INDEX 



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Mayr, Professor H., on climate, 89, 

 90. 



Meteorology in relation to forestry, 

 91 et sqq. 



Metzger, Dr., on Swedish forests, 

 35, 36. 



Midland Ee-aflbrestation Society, 

 238. 



Mixtures, 154-160. 



Mountain land, area, 65, 66 ; 

 elevation, 136 ; planting experi- 

 ments, 145, 146. 



Municipal afforestation work, 236. 



Natural Regeneration, 195, 



196. 

 New Forest, 260. 

 Notch-planting, 181. 

 Nurse trees, 160, 161. 

 Nurseries, local, 185, 186, 243, 



244 ; overcrowding, 172. 



Oak, value of, 191; conditions of 



growth, 90, 93, 112, 154, 225. 

 Office of Woods, 261. 

 Ornamental forestry, 57. 

 OwnersliiiJ of forest areas, 247. 



Packing for Transit, 179. 



Peat-covered land, 132-134 ; for- 

 mation of mountain, 144 ; 

 planting on, 140-143 ; suitable 

 trees, 144 ; on remains in, 143- 

 144. 



Pine, Banks's, 161. 



Corsican, 158, 209. 



Scots, 208, 209. 



■ Weymouth, 204. 



Pinus insignis, 210, 211. 



Pit-planting, 181, 182. 



Plane, 93. 



Planting operations, 77, 150, 168 ; 

 cost of, 143, 221, 222 ; in 

 Belgium, 166 ; Germany, 165 ; 

 Jutland, 165 ; principles of, 169, 

 178. 



notch, 181, 



Planting, pit, 181, 182. 



slit, 176, 177, 180, 181. 



Plough, use in lifting, 179. 

 Policy, forest, economic principles, 



16 ; in Europe, 12, 21, 24, 27, 



51, 245 ; in India, 252 ; lack of, 



in British Isles, 62, 148. 

 Poplar, conditions of growth, 90, 



117, 156, 184, 194; Black 



Italian, 211. 

 Preliminary expenses, 220. 

 Private owners of woods in British 



Isles, 52 ; assistance to, 250- 



258. 

 Pulp wood, 34, 43 ; imports, 29. 



Quebec, forest area, 38. 

 Quality of timber, 201-203. 



Rainfall, 95-97. 

 Raman n on soil changes, 128, 129. 

 Rating of woods, 255, 257. 

 Regeneration, natural, 195, 196 ; 



under coppice, 119. 

 Returns from woods, 228, 230. 

 Rohinia, seed-bearing quality, 194. 

 Roumania, forest policy, 24. 

 Royal Com mission on Coast Erosion, 



Afforestation Report, 66, 78, 250 ; 



reports to, 136. 

 Russia, State forestry, 37, 47 



Scots Pine, 208, 209. 



Scrub forest, 2. 



Seasons, planting, 178. 



Seed, production of trees, 193, 194 ; 

 beds, 178. 



Selkirk, typical agricultural con- 

 ditions, 73-76. 



Silver fir, value of, 158, 207 ; con- 

 ditions of growth, 104, 118, 111, 

 152, 194, 207. 



' Sheughing,' 180. 



Slit-planting, 176. 



Societies, Royal English Arbori- 

 cultural, 253 ; Royal Scottish 

 Arboriculural, 253 ; Heath, in 



