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 FOURTH AND ENLARGED EDITION OF 



Webster's Practical Forestry. 



The Fourth Edition of Webster's " Practical 

 Forestry " has been extensively enlarged and 

 revised by the author, Mr. ANGUS D. 

 WEBSTER, and is offered to the public, 

 tastefully bound in cloth cover, price 5s. 

 With the exception of one or two highly- 

 priced books, this is the only standard work 

 dealing with the subject. Illustrations 

 have been added in the new edition 

 which, it is hoped, will give material 

 assistance in explaining the various opera- 

 tions treated of in the text. Several fresh 

 chapters have also been incorporated in the 

 book, which now contains practical inform- 

 ation on the following, among other 

 subjects : 



Afforesting Waste Lands The Education of Foresters The 

 Home Nursery, its Formation and Management The Collecting 

 and Harvesting of Seeds The Propagating of Trees and Shrubs The 

 Laying Out ot Plantations The Kind of Trees Suited to Various Soil* 

 and Conditiocs-^Tie Planting of Large Towns, Seaside and Exposed 

 Position-, Hedgerow and Field Planting The Formation and Manage- 

 ment of Game Coverts Ornamental Planting Osier Cohort 

 Thinning Plantations Tree Pruning Barking Oak Manufacture ot 

 Charcoal Utilization of Waste Forest Produce Formation of Hedge* 

 and Fences Timber Measuring Diseases of Forest Tn 

 Prices of Contract Work Transplanting Large Trees, etc , etc. 



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