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INDEX. 



MAPLE, 25, 113 

 Marking of timber, 89 

 Marls, 19 



Maturity of trees, 77 



Measurement, 87, 99 



of larch. 101 



of ornamental trees, 106 



rules of, 1 02 



NATURE, study of, 61 

 Netting, 64 

 Notch planting, 44 

 Nursery, 12, 43 



OAK, cutting back of, 81 

 felling in winter, 107 

 Objects of planting, 5, 7 

 Ornamental trees, 50 



definition of, 106 

 planting, 49 



PERIOD of thinning, 71 

 Pinaster, pinus, 25 

 Pit-planting, 47 

 Plane, 113 

 Plantation, definition of, 22 



form of, 24 

 Planting, 26 



attention nfter, 68 



care in, 41 



conifers, 53 



cost of, 115 



distances in, 47 



large trees, 54 



for ornament-, 26 



for shelter, 26 



purchased trees 53 



right and wrong methods, 5 

 Poplar, 113 

 Private sale, 91, 96 

 Pruning, 79 



maxims, 84 



methods of, 83 



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UARTEK girth mcasim 

 ment, 101 



REALISATION, 85 

 Roads, 25 



Rule to find rods in drainage, 38 

 Rule of measurement, 102 



SALE, methods of, 89 

 Saleable contents, 100 

 Scenic effect, 78 

 Seasons, planting, 41 

 Selection of trees, 31 

 Selling of timber, 89 

 Settled Land Act, 116 

 Shelter, 57 

 Site, 20 



Sliding scale, 102, 105 

 Soils, 16, 1 8, 28 

 Springs, 39 

 Stag-horn top, 82 

 Strap for taking girth, 10.3 

 Sycamore, 25, 113 



TARRING of trees, 65 

 Tellers, 104 



Tender, sales by, 90, 97 

 Thinning, 55, 71 



period of, 7 1 



true principle of, 73 

 Timber, commeicial, 9, 23 



definition of, 100 

 Trees, distribution of, 55 

 Trenching, 50 



VALUATION of timber, 87, 

 108 

 Value of land, 8, 9 



thinnings, 75, 109, 121 

 Views, 25 

 Vistas, 25 



WALNUT, and fire-lines, 113 

 \Vaslc lands, planting <>f, 



123 

 Weight of timber, 103, in 



\Y<>odl;mds, nri;kvl of, 12 

 Woods, definition of, 22 



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