INDEX. 



343 



Succession Duty, valuation for, 141. 

 Successive falls, natural regeneration 



by, 82, 83-85. 

 Suckers, formation of, 37. 

 Sulphate of copper, impregnation with, 



304. 



Sulphurous acid, damage by, 259. 

 Summer chafer, 193, 208, 229. 

 Sun-burn or scorching, 60, 257, 258. 

 Superficial application of preservatives, 



300, 309. 



Supply of plants, 52. 

 Suppressed stems, 76. 

 Swainmote, 20. 

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



15. 

 Sycamore, Great Maple, or Scots 



Plane, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16. 

 leaf-blotch, 236, 243. 

 , , natural regeneration of, 85. 

 Sylva, the British, 1-19. 

 Sylva ccedua, 41, 114. 

 Sylvicultural characteristics of trees, 



,, treatment, choice of, 42, 



112. 

 Sylviculture, 1-85. 



,, scientific foundations of, 



27-33. 



System of Forestry, national British, 

 21, 22, 77. 



Tables of compound interest and dis- 

 count, 151-156. 

 ,, of cubic contents of logs, 147- 



150. 



Tachinince, 187. 

 Tannic acid or tannin, 288. 

 Tanning- bark, harvesting of, 287-289. 

 Tarring of wood, 303. 

 Technical uses of British timber, 277- 



279. 



Teeth of saws, 281, 314. 

 Telegraph and telephone poles, timber 



for, 279. 



Telescope hypsometer, 94. 

 Temperature, influence of, 33. 

 Temporary nurseries, 53. 

 Tender, sales by, 286. 

 Tending of woodlands, 74-79. 

 Tension, resistance to, 273. 

 Tenthredinidce, 194, 222. 

 Tetraneura ulmi, 227. 

 Texture of wood, 269. 

 Theft, 159. 

 Thinning, 74, 75-78, 234, 280. 



Thinning, best rule for, 76. 



,, marking stems for, 77. 

 of standards in copses, 76. 

 Thinnings, yield from, 143, 280, 285. 

 Thuja gigantea (syn. plicata), 6, 19, 



268. 



Timber, anatomical structure of, 264, 

 average prices of, 279. 

 felling of, 280, 285, 286. 

 identification of, 266, 270. 

 legal definition of, 41, 263. 

 measurement of, 89-103. 

 mechanical properties of, 273- 



277. 



ornamental properties of, 269. 

 physical properties of, 270-273. 

 practical uses of, 277-279. 

 technical definition of, 263. 



properties of, 263-277. 

 -Bob, 291. 

 -calliper, 95. 



-carts and -waggons, 291. 

 -consuming industries, 278. 

 crops, estimate of age of, 98. 

 ,, measurement of, 96. 

 rotation of, 39, 109, 120. 

 , , selection of trees for, 1 15. 

 -floating, 297. 

 -jack, 282. 

 -roads, 116, 282. 

 -sales, 286. 

 -sledges, 293. 

 -slides, 293-296. 

 -storage, 286. 

 -tramways, 292. 

 -transport, 291-298. 



,, by railway, 293. 

 byroad, 291, 293-296. 

 ,, by water, 297. 

 -trees, British, 4. 

 ,, sylvicultural character- 

 istics of British, 33-40. 

 ,, -valuation for succession duty, 



141. 



,, -waggons, 291. 

 Tineidcc, 194, 219. 

 Top and lop, 91. 

 Torsion, resistance to, 273. 

 Torlricidce, 194, 216. 

 Tortrix viridana, 194, 216, 231. 

 Toughness of timber, 274. 

 Trachea piniperda, 193, 213, 231. 

 Traction-engine, 291, 292, 310. 

 Trametes, fungi of genus, 287, 248. 

 Tramways for timber-transport, 292. 

 Transplanting of seedlings, 55, 57. 



