INDEX. 



271 



B 



Ball-planting, 230 

 Barrique, 261 

 Beech, habitat of, 51 



habits and requirements of, 51 

 uses of, 52 

 ,, rotation in pure, 53 

 ,, regeneration, 53 

 ,, primary cutting, 53 

 secondary cutting, 54 

 final cutting. 54 

 cleanings, 55 

 thinnings, 55 



how raised in nurseries, 216 

 and oak mixed, treatment of, 56 

 advantages of, 56 

 rotation in, 57 

 primary cutting, 57 

 secondary cutting, 58 

 final cutting, 59 

 cleanings, 59 

 thinnings, 60 

 ,, and Scotch pine mixed, advantages of, 90 

 ,, and silver fir mixed, treatment of, 80-82 

 ,, treatment of, in simple coppice, 128 

 Beech-nuts, preservation of, 207 



,, number of, in given weight or volume, 215 

 ,, quantity to sow per acre, 240 

 Belt of trees, for protection against winds, 40, 127, 195 

 Bilberry, weed in forests of Scotch pine, 85 

 Bill-hook, use of, in coppice, 119 

 Birch, in forests of Scotch pine, 85 



not to be cut out systematically, 110 

 ,, suckers produced by, 114 



associated with oak in simple coppice, 123, 132 

 ,, seed of, 213 



,, use of, as first timber crop on treeless wastes, 245 

 Blank defined, 3 

 Block, periodic, defined, 3 

 Box counted as brushwood, 5 

 Broad-leaved trees, general characters of, 16 

 Brushwood defined, 5 



Broom, the common, in forests of Scotch fir, 85 

 ,, ,, troublesome in Sartage, 126 



,, used in fixing the Dunes, 252 



Buckthorn counted as brushwood, 5 

 Buds, adventitious, 113 

 dormant, 113 



