CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE. 



Afforesting Waste Lands Necessity for Extended Planting Cost 

 of Forming Plantations Financial Results Advantages of Tree 

 Planting 1 



CHAPTER II. 



The Education of Foresters Practical Part Desirable Places to 

 Establish Schools of Forestry 9 



CHAPTER III. 



The Home Nursery Advantages of Situation Soil ^Water- 

 Extent of Ground Laying Out Trenching Stocking Seed Beds 

 Nursery Work for the Various Seasons 13 



CHAPTER IV. 



Collecting and Harvesting Tree Seeds Trees from which Seeds should 

 be Collected How to Collect Tree Seeds (Harvesting Number of 

 Plants to a Bushel of .Seed Number of Seeds in lib. Weight Prepara- 

 tion and Management of Different Seed's Time to Sow ... ... 21 



CHAPTER V. 



Propagating Trees and Shrubs From Seed By Cuttings From 

 Layers Grafting Budding Inarching ... ... ... ... ... 27 



CHAPTER VI. 



Formation of Plantations Laying Out the Boundaries Fencing 

 Clearing the Ground Draining Pitting Planting Notch Planting 

 Planting with the Iron Attention to Young Trees 57 



CHAPTER VII. 



Trees Best Adapted for Various Soils Peat Chalky and Calcareous 

 Gravelly and Sandy Soils Clay Soils Ironstone and Coad List of 

 Trees for Various Soils 47 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Trees for Economic Planting Larch Consican Pine Weymouth 

 Pine Austrian Pine Cluster Pine Scotch Pine Douglas Fir Giant 

 Arborvitse Norway Spruce Silver Fir Nordmann's Fir Nootfca 

 Sound Cypress Menzie Sfpruce Oak Sycamore Ash Spanish 

 Chestnut Elm Beech Birch-^&c. 67 



