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INDEX 



Scots Pine, prices and uses of timber, 330 



returns from, 219, 236, 246-248, 262, 

 403 



rotation for, 219, 246-248, 403 



seed of, 37, 39, 42, 45, 46, 400, 401 



soils for, 74, 76-78, 80, 88, 89, 401 



sowing of direct, 137 



sylvicultural notes on, 400-406 



thinning of, 161 



timber of, 401 



underplanting of, 167, 174 



yield table, 219 

 Sea Carex, 129 

 Sea coast, trees for, 89 

 Sea Lyme grass, 129 

 Season for, barking, 308 



cutting underwood, 199 



felling, 307 



planting, 1 1 1-113 



pruning, 156, 157 

 Seaside planting, 77 

 Seed bed in forest, 182, 183 

 Seed beds, 36 



"can," 44 



choice of, 37-39 



"felling," 183, 184, 190 



germination capacity, 42 



home grown, 38, 39, 193, 194 



marking board, 44 



number of, per lb., 45 



price per lb., 46 



production, age at which, 184 



quantity to sow in nurseries, 45 



quantity to sow in forest, 139 



storage of, 39, 40 



sowing of, 40-44 



years, 184, 191 

 Seedlings, cost of, 50, 51 



treatment of, 47-49 

 Selection system, 23, 176-179 

 Septoria parasitica, 56, 420 

 Sessile Oak, notes on, 359-363 

 Shade-bearing conifers, natural regene- 

 ration of, 193-195 



trees, 23-26, 95, 167, 187, 188 



trees, rate of growth, 91, 92, 168 



trees, thinning of, 147, 148, 152 

 Shallow soils, trees for, 78, 79 

 Shingles, 332 

 Short rotations, advisability of, 250 



interest yielded by, 241-243 



Side branches, effect of thinnings upon, 

 148, 149, 152 



vigour of, 92-95 



Silver fir, average annual increment, 

 218, 416 



financial return of underplanting with, 

 252-254 



height of, 91, 92, 1 60 



leaf scurf, 416 



natural regeneration of, 193-195 



needle blight fungus, 416 



(Nordmann's), notes on, 417 



partial clearance of, 166, 174, 175 



prices and uses of timber, 330 



returns from, 115, 218, 246-248, 252- 

 254, 262, 416 



rotation for, 218, 246-248, 415 



seed of, 39-42, 45, 4 6 , 4H 



soils for, 74, 75, 78, 79, 88, 89, 414 



sylvicultural notes on, 414-417 



thinning of, 160 



timber of, 414 



yield table, 218 

 Simple coppice, 21, 197, 202 

 Sir ex dromedarius, 385 



gigas, 417 

 Sitka Cypress (vide CupressusSitchtnsis), 



notes on, 387, 388 

 Sitka Spruce, natural regeneration of, 



193-195 



returns from, 115, 225, 422 

 seed of, 38, 39, 42, 45, 46, 421 

 soils for, 74, 76, 78, 79, 88, 421, 422 

 sylvicultural notes on, 421-423 

 timber of, 421 



Sleepers, railway, 332, 333 



Slips or cuttings, 52, 53 



Small black weevil ( O. querci}^ 362 

 brown pine weevil (JPissodes notatus), 



405, 413, 421 

 Poplar longicorn beetle, 371 



Snow berry, 2IO 



Soil covering of grass, 142, 171 

 moisture, 170-172 

 moisture, effects of woodlands on, 4 

 temperature within woodlands, 2 



Sour soils, 84 



owing to decay, 182 



Sowing acorns, 137 



acorns in coppice areas, 200 

 direct, crops of trees, 136-141 



