INDEX 



303 





Fire-drums, 282 

 Fire-gang, 274 

 Fire-lines, 266 



best hours for burning, 273 



best season for burning, 271 



burning of, 273 

 Fire-maps, 283 

 Fire-patrol establishment, 279 

 Fire protection, 266 



advantages and disadvantages, 86 



and gum production, 88 



in places liable to erosion, 89 

 Fires, causes of forest-, 82 



effects of, on forest growth, 84 

 Fire-ticket patrol, 279 

 Fire-trace, 267 



width of, 270 

 Fire watch-platforms, 282 

 Fixation of shifting sands, 284 



unstable slopes, 289 

 Flamboyant, 263 

 Flooding, watering by, 126 

 Flood-irrigation, 159 

 Fodder, lopping for, 82 

 Foetidia mauritiana, 42 

 Fames Pappianus, 64 

 Forest destroyers, 68 

 Forest, high, 108 

 Forests and erosion, 98 



and famines, 102 



rainfall, 96 



temperature, 102 



unemployment, 102 



water-supply, 98 



wind, 101 

 Fork, pronged, 139 

 Formation and regeneration of forests, 



103 

 Fox-tail Sedge, 159 

 Fresh soils, 11 

 Fungi, 64 

 Funtumia, 56 



elastica, 24, 32 

 Furrow-board, 133, 134 



Gallery- forests, 24 

 Garcinia, 29, 30 



echinocarpa, 38 

 Garden-trowel, 138 

 Garuga pinnata, 35, 72 

 Gaur, 73 

 Germination of hard seeds, help to, 135 



tests, 118 

 Giraffes, 73 

 Girdling, 236 

 Gleichenia, 90, 137, 203 



linearis, 60 

 Gmelina, 34 

 Goats, 77 

 Gordonia, 29, 40 



Gossypium, 56 

 Grazing, 79 

 Greeuheart, 33 

 Gregarious species, 107 

 Ground orchids, 50 

 Group method, 215 

 Guide-lines, clearing of, 267 



width of, 270 

 Gum production, effects of fire on, 88 

 Guttiferae, 29 

 Gymnosporia luteola, 50 



montana, 50 

 Gyrocarpus 12, 56 



Habit of a tree, 107 



Haematozylon campechianum, 33 



Haifa grass, Egyptian, 289 



Hares, 72 



Harptdia pendula, 34 



Heaths, Tree-, 43 



Heavy soils, 12 



Heavy thinnings, 241 



Hedyotis, 60, 203 



Height of stools, 191 



Hemicyclia sepiaria, 242 



Hemileia vastatrix, 64 



Hena, 89 



Heritiera Fomes, 47 



Herminiera Elaphroxylon, 51 



Hevea braziliensis, 24, 51, 72, 115 



Hibiscus tiliaceus, 47 



High forest, 108 



and coppice compared, 221 

 Hill-Bamboos, 40, 43 

 Hoe, Dutch, 137 

 Holarrhena, 56 

 Hopea, 27, 55 

 Horned animals, wild, 73 

 Humboldtia, 68 

 Humidity, relative, 19 

 Humus, 4 



Hydrophylax maritima, 285 

 Hygroscopicity of soils, 10 

 Hymenophyllum, 26 



Imperata arundinacea, 61, 90, 203 

 Implements for shaping stools, 192 

 Improvement-fellings, 248 

 Indiscriminate fellings, 93 

 Influence of forests on climate and 



locality, 95 

 Inland-dunes, 287 

 Insects, injurious, 68 

 Ipomaea, 234 



biloba, 285 

 Iron -wood, 41 

 Irregular fellings, 217 

 Irrigation, basin-, 159 



flood-, 159 



for reclamation of saline soils, 159 



