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INDEX. 



Shelter for planting, 74. 

 ,, planting for, 74. 

 Shifting sand, planting on, 74. 

 Shipbuilding timber, 278. 

 Shoot-boring moth, the Larch, 194, 



219, 231. 



Shooting of timber, 293-296. 

 Shoot-twisting fungus, the Pine, 236, 



243. 



moth, 194, 217, 231. 



Shrinkage in wood, 272. 

 Side-pressure, resistance to, 274. 

 Silver Fir, 5, 18. 



bark, 288. 

 canker, 237, 245. 

 needle-blight, 236, 241. 

 resin, 328. 

 Simultaneous natural regeneration, 82, 



84. 



Sirex, insects of genus, 194, 225. 

 Siricidce, 194, 224. 

 Situation, influence of, 33, 34. 

 Skip-jacks, 193, 209. 

 Slabs, waste in, 317. ' 

 Sledging, 293. 

 Sleepers, railway, 317. 

 Sliding or shooting of timber, 293-296. 

 Slips, planting of, 59. 

 Slit-planting, 65. 

 Slugs and snails in nurseries, 59. 

 Smoke, damage by, 259. 

 Snouted weevils, 192, 201-206. 

 Snow, damage by, 258. 

 Soda process for cellulose, 321. 

 Softwoods, 276, 277. 



,, technical uses of, 277-279. 

 Soil, classification of, 30. 

 and situation, description of, 131. 

 ,, ,, diseases due to un- 

 suitable, 253-260. 

 ,, influence of, 33, 34. 

 ,, and subsoil, physical properties 



of, 31. 



,, -covering, removal of, 51. 

 ,, -moisture, 32. 

 ,, -preparation, 48, 51, 73, 74. 

 ,, -temperature, 33. 



,, ,, influence of wood- 

 lands on, 26. 



Sowing and planting, 47, 80. 

 ,, of tree-seeds, 54-58. 

 ,, -horn, 58. 

 Spades for planting, conical, 52, 53, 65, 



69, 73. 



,, ,, cylindrical, 69. 



Span-worm moths, 194, 214. 



Spanish or Sweet Chestnut, 5, 7, 9, 14, 



15. 



Sparks, damage by railway, 160, 161. 

 Specific gravity of wood, 271. 

 Sphcerella laricina, 236, 240. 

 Spinners (Bombycidce), 193, 210, 230. 

 Splitting of wood, 272. 

 Spokewood, 277. 

 Sporadic trees, 39. 

 Spruce Aphis, 195, 227. 

 -bark, 288, 289. 

 -bark canker, 236, 243. 

 -gall Aphis, 195, 226, 227, 232. 

 leaf -blister, 237, 247. 

 moth, 193, 212. 

 -needle rust, 237, 247. 

 resin-tapping, 327. 

 Spruces, 5, 18. 

 Square of flooring, 316. 



,, of quarter-girth measurement, 

 89. 



Squares of timber, 315. 

 Squirrels, damage by, 174. 

 Stacked fuel, 316. 

 Stag-headedness, 253. 

 Standards in copse (see " Coppice with 



Standards "). 



,, ,, thinning of, 76. 



Standing timber, sale of, 286. 



,, trees, bark-stripping of, 288. 

 Statute of Enclosure (1482), 21. 

 ,, of Woods (1543), 21, 44. 

 Steam-power sawmills, 310, 311, 313- 



315. 



Steaming of wood, 302. 

 Stem-rot, 248. 

 Stereum hirsutum, 273. 

 Stimulating the growth of old trees, 



253. 



Stock-map, 130, 132. 

 Stool-shoots, formation of, 37. 

 Storage-depots for timber, 286. 



,, of plants, 60. 

 Stored coppice (see " Coppice with 



Standards "). 



,, coppice as game -coverts and 

 ornamental woods, 114. 

 Straight- winged insects, 184. 

 . Straining-posts in fences, 166, 169. 

 Strength in timber, 273. 

 Strophosomus coryli, 192, 205, 229. 

 Stump-extraction, 284. 

 Stunted growth, 253. 

 Subdivision of woodlands, 116. 

 Subordinate kinds of trees, 39. 

 Subsoil, 32. 



