INDEX 



Sowing of lime, 305 



maple, 261 



oak, 208 



> pine, 78 



silver fir, 135 



spruce, 1 1 1 



sycamore, 261 



white alder, 298 



Spanish or sweet chestnut, 14, 283 

 Spruce, 13, 83 



as the ruling species in mixed 

 woods, 99 



distribution of, 83 



external dangers to, 88 



fungoid diseases of, 89 



insect enemies of, 89 



maturity and reproductive capa- 

 city of, 87 



mixture of beech and, 99, 101, 



, 'u 9 ' 1 ! 5 



larch and, 99, 102, 152 



oak and, 105, 203 



Scots pine and, 69, 99, 



103 



other pines and, 104 

 silver fir and, 99, 124 

 softwoods and, 105, 317, 



318 



period of rotation of, 95 

 pure forests of, 94 

 requirements as to light, 86 



soil and situation, 85 

 sylvicultural treatment of, 91 

 -form and root-system, 84 

 woods, artificial formation and 

 reproduction of, 107, 109 

 natural reproduction of, 



106, 108 

 thinning of, 96 

 Standards of ash, 248 

 heech, 165, 167, 181 

 birch, 217 

 chestnut, 286 

 hornbeam, 280 

 larch, 147, 148, 151 

 maple an-1 sycamore, 260 

 oak, 194, 196, 202, 205 

 poplars, 318 



- pine, 76 



silver fir, 123, 129, 131 

 spruce, 98 



Stag-headedness, 187, 200, 203, -248 

 Stoles or suckers, 23 

 Stool-shoots, 23 

 Sylvicultural treatment of alder, 227 



ash, 247 



aspen, 316 



beech, 162 



birch, 215 



chestnut, 289 



elm, 267 



hornbeam, 277 



horse-chestnut, 308 



larch, 145 



maple, 257 



oak, 193 



osier-beds, 329 



poplars, 316 



Scots pine, 63 



silver fir, 119 



spruce, 91 



sycamore, 257 



white alder, 297 



willows, 325 



THINNING, 22, 24 



Thinning of beech woods, 166 



larch woods, 150 



oak woods, 198 



Scots pine woods, 64, 66 



silver fir woods, 124 



spruce woods, 96 

 Thinning out of softwoods, 314, 



317 



Timber production in Britain, con- 

 siderations affecting, 12, 164 



Timber, quality of, 54, 95, 123, 144, 



55 



Timber trees of Britain, 13 

 Timber trees, comparative consider 

 ations regarding, 24 



segregation of various species 



of, 17 



Total increment in timber crops, 42 

 Transpiration through foliage, 28 

 Tree-form of alder, 223 

 ash, 244 



. . 3 1 1 



I'.-rdi, 156 

 birch, 212 



