INDEX. 



A. 



Absorption of water by wood, 52 

 Acorns, date of ripening, 550 

 ,, used for pannage, 564 

 Advertising sales of wood, 478 

 Air-dried wood, 27 

 Alburnum, 15 

 Anatomy of wood, 5 

 Anobium sp., 87 



Antiseptic treatment of wood, 6'A 

 Anvil stocks, 125 

 Auctions of timber, 455 

 Autumn wood, 9 

 Axe, resistance of wood to, 36 

 Axes, 193, 211, 227 



B. 



Bahla, 484 



Balks, 107 



Bamboos, 87, 163 



Bandboxes, 150 



Band-saws, 689 



Bark, other uses besides tanning, 51: 



,, removal of, 257 



,, for tanning, 483 

 Barrels, 146 

 Bast, lime, 656 

 Battens, 109 

 Bean -sticks, 165 

 Beech-nut oil, 569 

 Beech-nuts for pannage, 564 



,, date of ripening, 550 



Bentwood for furniture, 46 

 Bilberries, collection of, 655 

 Bilberry bushes for litter, 601 

 Bill-hook, 198, 228 



Birch-bark, 509, 515 



Birch oil, 515 



Birdseye maple, 65 



Blasting stumps and roots, 259 



Blythe's system of injection, 663 



Boards, 110 



Boat-building, 125 



Bogs, 720 



Bole, cleanness of, 21 



Booms in timber floating, 383, 385 



Boucherie, 661 



Bracken, 618 



Branches for litter, 602, 613, 618 



Briar- wood for pipes, 157 



Bridges, timber for, 122 



Broom for litter, 600 



Brooms, 156, 166 



Brushwood, 250, 272 



Burnettising wood, 661 



Burrs, 65 



Butchers' blocks, 141 



Butts, 249, 270 



Cabinet-making, 133, 134 



Canals, influence on timber-transport, 



428 

 Carbonisation of wood, 693 

 Carriage-poles, 140 

 Cart traffic, 321 

 Casks, 142 

 Catechu, 484 

 Cellulose, 162 

 Charcoal. 693 

 Children's toys, 157 

 Chutes, timber, 288 

 Cigarboxes, 173 



