PREFACE TO FIFTH EDITION 



To the Author at least, it is gratifying to know that four 

 editions of Practical Forestry have been sold out, and 

 that a fifth is urgently called for ; no other work on British 

 Forestry having achieved a like popularity. 



The whole has now been completely revised and several 

 important chapters added, particularly with reference to 

 Timber and the War, British Timber and Timber Trees, 

 Afforesting Waste Lands, and The Education of Foresters, 

 on both of which latter questions the Author had the honour 

 of giving evidence before the Departmental Committee on 

 Forestry of the Board of Agriculture. 



A. D. WEBSTER. 



REGENT'S PARK, 

 June, 1917. 



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