INDEX 



Abele, Sylvicultural treatment of, 83. 



Trees at Longleat, 83. 

 Abies pectinate/., 97. 

 Act, Finance, 38. 

 Act for preservation of timber. 9. 

 Acts, Enclosure, 13. 

 Agricultural Returns, 21. 



Land, Rents of, 39. 

 Ailesbury, Marquis of, 314. 

 Alder moors, 10. 

 Alder, Sylvicultural treatment of, 86. 



Uses of, 85. 

 Allium ursinum, 72. 

 Alnus glutinosa, 85. 

 Altum on pine weevil, 2. 

 Andreds Weald, 2. 

 Arboriculture, Effects of, on forestry, 31. 



in English woods, 31. 

 Arden, Forest of, 3. 

 Ash, Beauties of, 239. 



Canker in, 309. 



Early methods of growing, 71. 



Natural regeneration of, 121. 



Sylvicultural treatment of, 71. 

 Atholl, Duke of, and larch planting. 89. 

 Auction sales, 152. 



Advantages of, 152. 



Conditions adapted for, 158. 



Prices at, 155. 



Rings at, 153. 

 Avenues, Antiquity of, 262. 



Introduction of, 263. 



Length of, 263. 



Methods of planting, 267. 



Sites adapted for, 268. 



through woods, 266. 



Species adapted for, 265. 



Back-ground, Trees in, 212. 

 Bark stripping, 183. 

 Beech, Beauties of, 230. 



Canker in, 309. 



Continental system of growing, 79. 



Natural regeneration of, 121. 



on Chiltern Hills, 77-79. 



Sylvicultural treatment of, 77-SO. 

 Beetle, Pine, 276. 

 Belt, The, 259. 

 Betula alba, 84. 



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i Birch, Beauties of, 232. 

 Early uses of, 84. 

 in mixture with larch, 85. 

 Black Italian poplar, Sylvicultural treat- 

 ment of, 82. 



Blenheim, Earliest park at, 249. 

 Bracken, Destruction of, 112. 

 Broom, Destruction of, 112. 

 | Brown, "Capability," 14. 



James, author of The Forester, 17. 



Csesar, Mention of British forests by, 2. 

 I " Capability " Brown, Clumps formed by, 



as landscape gardener, 14. 

 Capital, Provision of, for planting, 50. 

 i Carruthers on larch disease, 291. 

 \ Castanea vesca, 80. 

 Charcoal, Uses of, in early times, 190. 



Burning, 190. 



Charta Foresta, Effect of, 8. 

 I Chestnut, Sweet, 80. 

 j Coppice, Method of growing, 28. 

 i Chilterns, Beech on, 77. 

 ! Clumps, Park, 252. 



on clowns, 214. 

 Cockchafer, Damage done by, 283. 



Preventive measures against, 283-284. 

 I Commons, Enclosure of, 12. 

 Coppice with standards, Condition of, 26. 

 Conversion of, into plantations, 52. 

 No longer profitable, 27. 

 Corsican pine, apt to fail in transplant- 

 ing, 104. 



Sylvicultural treatment of, 103. 

 Cromer Forest Bed, 1. 

 Crown woods, Origin of sylviculture in, 



11. 

 Reduction of, 10. 



Deer fold, 248. 



Parks, Origin of, 248. 



Destruction of, during Civil War, 10, 



249. 



I Disease, Larch, 289. 

 I Domesday, Reference to woods in, 11. 

 ; Douglas fir, at Longleat, 107. 

 at Scone, 107. 

 Introduction of, 105. 



