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INDEX 



Late spring planting, 112 



Laurel, 210 



Layering or plashing, 201 



Layers, 52 



Laying out rides or roads, 69 



Leaf shedding disease, 56, 192, 403, 



413 



Leaves, retention of, 183 

 Light-demanding trees, 95, 188 

 demanding trees, thinning of, 147- 



149, 152 

 Lime, 323 



prices and uses of timber, 328 



seed of, 42, 357 



sylvicultural notes on, 357, 3$8 



timber of, 357 



(CaO), a poison to some trees, 83, 



89 

 (CaO), in soil and tree growth, 83, 



84 



Limestone soils, trees for, 88 

 Linapopuli, 371, 385 

 tremulce, 371, 385 

 Lining out seedlings and transplants, 



49 

 Liriodendron tulipifera (vide Tulip 



Tree), 377, 378 



Lombardy Poplar, notes on, 371 

 London Plane, notes on, 365 

 Long rotations, inadvisability of, 241- 



243, 250 



Lophodermium macrosporum, 420 

 nerviseguum, 405, 406, 421 

 pinastri, 56, 403, 413 

 Lophyrus pini, 406 



rufus, 406 



Loss of plant food by tree growth, 80 

 Losses in respect of timber growing, 10 

 Lotting timber, 302, 304 



MARKETING of mature timber, 290-304 



of thinnings, 289, 290 

 Marking timber, 302 

 Maritime Pine (vide P. pinaster), notes 



on, 409, 410 

 Marram grass, 129 

 Maw's formula, 446, 447 

 Measurement by board measure, 278- 

 282 



by calliper measure, 277, 281, 282 



by die square, 278, 280, 282 



Measurement by quarter girth, 264-275, 

 279, 280, 282 



by true contents, 276, 279, 282 



of felled timber, 265-271 



of sample plots, 432-434 



of sample trees, 429-432 



of standing timber, 272, 273 

 Mechanical condition of soil and tree 



growth, 79, 80 

 Melampsora, 371, 385 



larici tremulce , 371 



pinitorquua, 371, 405 



populina, 371 



Melampsorella cerastii, 416 

 Melolontha vulgaris ( = Cockchafer), 341, 



345, 355, 362, 376, 39i, 405 

 Method of pruning, 155, 156 

 Methods of mixing trees, 100-103 

 Mice, damage done by, 57 

 Mico-rhizas, 8 1 



Micro-organisms and tree growth, 8 1 

 Mistletoe, 371 

 Mixed coppice, 201 



woods, merits and demerits of, 98-100 



woods, thinning of, 151, 152 

 Mixtures, natural regeneration of, 186 



of trees, 100-108 



rules for, 108 

 Moisture, demands of trees as to, 74-76 



in soil, 170, 179 

 Moor pan, 79 

 Mother trees, 181 



gradual clearance of, 184-187, 190, 



191 



Mound planting (vide "tumping), 127 

 Mutual pruning effects, 93, 94 

 Myxoderma, 324 



NATURAL REGENERATION, 176-196 

 Nectria cinnabarina, 356, 358, 376 



curcubitula, 420 



ditissima, 341, 344, 355, 358, 362 

 Net expenses in forests, 236, 245, 258 

 Nitrogen, utilization of, and require- 

 ments, 8 1 



Nordmann's silver fir, notes on, 417 

 Normal growing stock, coppice with 



standards, 226 



growing stock, high forest, 216-224 

 Normally stocked areas, capital in- 

 vested in, 234-237 



