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INDEX. 



Balks, 315. 



Balls of earth, planting with, 68. 

 Band-saws, 313, 314. 

 Barb-wire fences, 166-169. 

 Bark-allowance, 90. 



-beetles, 192, 195-201, 228. 

 -binding, 254. 

 for tanning, different kinds of, 



288. 



harvesting and drying of, 288. 

 -mosses, 234. 

 -scorching, 60, 257, 258. 

 -stripping by deer, 171. 

 ,, of Oak, 288. 

 Barrel-making timber, 279. 

 Barren sand-dunes, planting of, 74. 

 Basket-making, Osier preparation for, 



288. 



Battens, 316. 

 Bavarian drill-board, 57. 

 Beam -tree (see " Whitebeam "). 

 Beard-mosses, 234. 

 Beating up blanks, 74. 

 Beech, 5, 6, 9, 14, 15. 

 branch-tuft, 252. 



leaf-mining weevil, 192, 205, 



229. 



,, natural regeneration of, 84. 

 -scale, 195, 227. 

 ,, -seedling fungus, 236, 237. 

 ,, -spinner moth, 211, 230. 

 stump-tuft, 237, 251. 

 Beetles, 183, 192, 195. 



destructive, 192, 195-210, 228- 



230. ^ 



,, extermination of, 189. 

 ,, useful, 186. 



Bethell's preservative process, 303, 304. 

 Bills or billhooks, felling with, 280. 

 Birch, 5, 7, 11, 14, 16. 

 -bark, 289. 

 -rust fungus, 237, 246. 

 Birds, useful and destructive, 177-180, 



186. 



Black Arches moth, 193, 212. 

 Blackcock, damage by, 177, 178. 

 Black Pine-cambial beetle, 192, 198. 

 Bladder- fungi, 246. 

 Blanks, filling of, 74. 

 Blight Insects, 195, 225-227, 232. 

 Blister-fungus, 246. 

 Blueing of conifer timber, 273. 

 Bluestone, impregnation with, 303, 304. 

 Board measurement, 90. 

 Bombycidw, 193, 210-213, 230. 

 Book-keeping for woodlands, 138. 



Bordeaux mixture, 239. 



Bordered White moth, 194, 215, 231. 



Bostrichini, 192, 199. 



Bostrichus. insects of genus, 192, 199- 



201. 



Botrytis cinerea, 236, 239. 

 Boucherie's preservative process, 303, 



304. 



Boundary-marks, 159. 

 Bracken, clearance of, 51. 



-clock, 193, 208, 229. 

 Brakes on rafts, 298. 



,, on timber-slides, 296. 

 Branch-knots, 272. 

 -rot, 273. 

 ,, -tuft fungus, 252. 

 Breaking-strain, resistance to, 274. 

 British Forestry, national system of, 



21, 22, 77. 



,, timber, market value of, 279. 

 ,, ,, technical uses of, 277- 



279. 



Broadcast sowing, 54. 

 Broad-leaved trees, 4, 6-17, 266. 

 Brown-tail moth, 193, 211. 

 Buchner's preservative process, 306. 

 Buprestidce,l93, 208. 

 Burnett's preservative process, 303, 



304. 

 Butterflies, 183. 



Cabinet-making timber, 279. 

 Oowia-stage of fungi, 236, 243. 

 Calcining of potashes, 328. 

 Calcium-sulphite process for cellulose, 



321. 



Calliper for measuring timber, 95. 

 Cambium, 29, 269. 

 Canker of broad-leaved trees, 236, 242. 



Larch-, 236, 240. 



,, Silver Fir-, 245. 



,, Pine-, 248. 



Spruce-, 243. 

 Canopy, normal density of, 106, 107. 

 Capercaillie, damage by, 177, 178. 

 Capital in wood, normal, 106, 108-112, 

 141, 142. 



, , required in Forestry, 104. 



,, value of woodlands, 141, 142. 

 Carpentry, timber for, 278. 

 Carbonisation of wood, 323-327. 

 Carting timber, cost of, 292. 

 Carts, timber-, 291. 

 Cask-making timber, 279. 

 Cattle, damage by, 165. 

 Causes of decay in timber, 276, 299. 



