330 



INDEX. 



Planting seedlings, Successive 



steps in, 116 

 Planting to renew timber 



growth, 70 



Plantanus occidentalis, 297 

 Plum, Wild, in groves, 51 

 Pocket gopher, 136 

 Pollarding, 73 

 Poplar, 283 

 Populus, angustifolia, 284 



balsamifera candicans, 283 



deltoides, 284 



fremontii, 284 



grandidenta, 283 



tremuloides, 283 



trichocarpa, 284 

 Port Oxford Cedar, 278 

 Possibilities of yield of our 



forest area, 243 

 Post Oak, 289 

 Prairie planting, 44 

 Prairies, Why treeless, 39 

 Pressler's tables of relative 



diameters, 178 

 Price of fuel, 242 

 Profit from land stocked with 



small timber, 164 

 Profits from timber by seeds, 84 

 Propagation, 84 



by cuttings, 73 



by division, 84 



by layers, 105 

 Protection by windbreaks, 46 



to buildings, 45 



to crops by windbreaks, 46 

 Pruning, 118 



Directions for, 119 



of forest trees, 75 



Purpose of, 118 



Time for, 118 

 Prunus serotina, 297 

 Pseudotsuga taxifolia, 270 

 Puddling, 129 



Quarter sawing, 224 

 Quercitron Oak, 292 

 Quercus acuminata, 290 



alba, 288 



chrysolepis, 291 



coccinea 292 



densiflora, 293 



digitata, 292 



Quercus lobata, 289 

 macrocarpa, 289 

 michauxii, 291 

 minor, 289 

 nigra, 293 

 palustris, 293 

 platanoides, 290 

 prinus, 290 

 rubra, 291 

 velutina, 292 

 virginiana, 291 



Rabbits, Injuries from, 136 

 Rainfall, Height of water table 



in the land, 40 

 Raising coniferous trees, 95 

 Rate of growth, 175 



of growth of coniferous 

 seedlings, 97 



of increase in timber, 160 



of standing timber, 192 

 Red Ash, 304 

 Red Birch, 285 

 Red Cedar, 279 

 seeds of, 95 

 Red Elm, 295 

 Red Fir, 273, 275 

 Red Juniper, 279 

 Red Maple, 300 

 Red Mulberry, 295 

 Red Oak, 291, 292 

 Red Pine, 262 

 Red Spruce, 270 

 Redwood, 276 



Regeneration by artificial seed- 

 ing, 67 



by coppice, 73 



by group method, 65 



by natural seeding, 63 



by planting, 70 



by selection, 64 



by sowing in patches, 68 



by strip method, 65 



by sprouts and suckers, 73 

 Rest period in plants, 11 

 Ripening" of wood, 10 

 River Birch, 285 

 Robinia pseudacacia, 298 

 Rock Chestnut Oak, 290 

 Rock Elm, 294 

 Rock Maple, 299 

 Rock Oak, 290 



