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INDEX. 



M'Corquodale, Mr William, quoted, 

 47. 



Maritime or sea -side planting, 54 

 cost of an experiment, 55 examin- 

 ation of unfavourable sites, ib. 

 trees and shrubs best suited for, 57 

 et seq. 



Mathieson, John, 307. 



Montagu, Duke of, 304. 



Moor-burning, 9. 



Mortimer, John, 309. 



Nasmyth, Sir John, 305. 

 Nathaniel, John Winch, 311. 

 Neil, Mr Samuel, on Sir Walter Scott 

 and tree-planting, 7. 



Oak-trees, pruning, 234, 239. 



Parkinson, John, 308. 



Pines, 44. 



Pine timber, cost of growing, 69. 



Plantations, the form and outline of, 

 4 the breadth of, 5 report on the 

 Loch Ordie, 72 report on the Inver- 

 cauld, 73 report on the Castlemilk, 

 77 report by Mr Kobert E. Brown, 

 80 report on Strathspey, 82 et seq. 

 report on fencing, 94 -report on 

 a mixed plantation in Roxburgh- 

 shire, 95 evil effects of mixing 

 different kinds of trees in, 193. 



Planters, celebrated, 302. 



Planting, the objects of, 4 prepar- 

 ing ground for, 9 season of the 

 year best adapted for moor-burning, 

 ib. paring the surface, 10 the 

 planting of moorlands, 11 plough- 

 ing and subsoiling, 13 cost of trees, 

 14 et seq. attention to the develop- 

 ment of branches, 16 planting 

 within the influence of the sea, 54 

 planting on barren and exposed 

 districts, 59 planting in foreign 

 countries, 66 important local 

 planting, 72 et seq. kinds and 

 ages of plants used, 74 et seq. cost 

 of formation of plantations, 75 et 

 seq. average growth for five years, 

 77 modes of, 80 et seq. planting 

 with a view to pecuniary profit, 89 

 the annual increase of wood, 92 

 the spacing of hardwoods in a mixed 

 plantation, 96 a planter's experi- 

 ence, 97 cost of plants for hill- 

 ground, 100 top growth, 101 

 making up blanks and renewing 

 old plantations, 104 group-plant- 



ing, ib. city and roadside do., 106 

 implements for, 112 et seq. mis- 

 cellaneous hints on, 118 rules for, 

 119 results of, at an altitude of 

 350 feet above the sea, 185. 



Planting-iron, 117. 



Pruning, the object of, 209 advan- 

 tages and disadvantages of, 210 

 the leading principle of, 211 risks 

 of, 212 rules for guidance in, 214 

 removal of dead branches, 217 

 method of, 219 the pruning-chisel, 

 228 et seq. different methods of 

 pruning pine and fir plantations, 

 229 benefits of, 238 pinching off 

 young shoots, 243 treatment of 

 hedgerows and avenues, 245 ampu- 

 tating large limbs, 246 proper and 

 improper pruning, 247 evil effects 

 of, 252 treatment of unhealthy and 

 diseased trees, ib. cutting away a 

 twin-stem, 256 reducing the top 

 of a tree, 257 Gavin Cree's system 

 of, 260 its merits counterbalanced 

 by its defects, 263 the French sys- 

 tem of, 266 treatment of double 

 or forking branches, 272 treatment 

 of old trees, 275 veterans, 276 

 loosened barks, 277 cavities in 

 the trunk, 278 season for, 279 

 the use of coal-tar, ib. objections 

 to other preparations, 280 effects 

 of coal-tar on the elm, 281 conifers, 

 282 objections to coal-tar, 283 

 experiments in, 284 hurried growth 

 injudicious, 286 ornamental prun- 

 ing, 288 instruments for, 293 the 

 chisel, ib. the averuncator, 295 

 the cleaving -knife, ib. ladders, 296 

 hooks or spurs, ib. the dendro- 

 scope, 297 selection of the leader, 

 298 the pruning - knife, ib. the 

 handsaw, ib. the pole-saw, 299 

 rules for, 300. 



Reid, John, 306. 

 Robinson, John, 307. 

 Root-pruning, 62. 

 Rose, John, 309. 



Sadler, John, 312. 



Sap-lifters, 273. 



Scotch fir, successive cropping with, 

 47 results of different methods of 

 planting, compared, ib. clearing 

 the ground before planting, 51. 



Seafield, Earl of, 305. 



Sinclair, Sir John, 305. 



