INDEX. 



335 



Estate sawmills, 311. 

 ,, work, impregnating wood for, 



305. 



,, timber for, 279. 

 Estimate of age of trees and timber- 

 crops, 98. 



of cubic contents per acre, 

 96. 



Expansion of wood, 272. 

 Explanatory note to working - plan, 



132, 133. 



Extermination of beetles, 189. 

 of moths, 190. 



Kxtraction of timber, 291-298. 

 ,, of tree-stumps, 284. 

 Eyre of the Forest, 20. 



Faggotting, 287. 

 Fallow-deer, damage by, 171. 

 Falls, protective, 122. 

 False Acacia (see "Robinia"). 

 Farm-stock, damage by, 165. 

 Faustmann's formula, 143 . 

 Felling, best season for, 2S4. 

 cost of, 286. 



direction, the general, 120. 

 of coppice, 81, 280, 284. 

 of timber, 280-285. 

 plan, 124, 126-129, 132. 

 series, formation of, 120. 

 with axe alone, 280, 281. 

 ,, axe and saw, 280, 282. 

 ,, bill or billhook, 280. 

 ,, lever - appliances, 282, 

 283. 



Fencing, 166-169. 

 Fidonia piniaria, 194, 215, 231. 

 Field-book, 131. 

 Filling of blanks, 74. 

 Finches, damage by, 177, 179. 

 Fir, Common or Scots (see "Scots 



Pine "). 



Fire, damage by, 164. 

 ,, -extinction, 162. 

 ,, -prevention, 162. 

 ,, -proofing of wood, 308, 309. 

 Fires in woodlands, 160-164. 

 Fires Act, Railway (1905), 161. 

 Firewood, measurement of, 316. 

 Fissibility of wood, 275. 

 Fixation of shifting sand, 74. 

 Fixing the annual fall, 123-129. 

 Flexibility of timber, 274. 

 Floating of timber, 297. 

 Flooring, square of, 316. 

 Flow of sap in trees, 28, 264, 269. 



Flumes, 296. 



Pomes, fungi of genus, 237, 248-250. 

 Forest Acts and Rules, 159. 

 ,, courts, 20. 

 ,, demon, 282. 

 ,, laws, 159. 

 ,, offences, 159. 



Forest of Dean Forestry School, 24. 

 Forestry, instruction in, 24. 



,, Irish Committee on (1907), 24. 

 ,, Royal Commission on (1908), 



24. 



,, Scottish Committee on (1911), 

 Preface, p. v. 

 Forests, 20. 



Formation of woodlands, 47. 

 Form-factor, 92. 

 Forms of woodland crops, 41. 

 Formulae for calculating value of wood- 

 lands, 142, 143. 

 Frame-saws, 313, 314. 

 Frost, damage by, 34, 53, 60, 254-257. 

 -cracks or frost-shakes, 256, 272. 

 Fungi, 235-252. 



,, chief disease -producing, 236- 



252, 273. 



life-History of, 235. 

 Fungus diseases in nurseries, 60, 236, 



237-239. 



,, in plantations and 



woods, 23t>, 239-252. 

 Furniture, timber for, 279. 

 Furze, 51. 



Future management, working-plan for, 

 130-138. 



Gall-s 



iruce, 195, 226, 232. 

 195, 225. 



,, -wasps, 194, 225. 

 Game, damage by, 169, 177, 178. 



,, -coverts, 114. 

 Garden-chafer, 193, 208, 229. 

 Gean(see "Cherry"). 

 General characteristics of timber-crops, 



39. 

 Generation table of destructive insects, 



228-232. 



Geometridce moths, 194, 214. 

 Germination of seed, 37, 38. 54-56. 

 Girdling of old trees, 77, 234, 269, 



300. 

 Girth, measurement of, 91, 94. 



,, rate of growth of , 99. 

 Gnats or Gall-midges, 195, 225. 

 Goat-moth, 194, 219, 231. 

 Gorse, 51. 



