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INDEX. 



Distilleries, resin, 262 



Dormant buds, 113 



Drainage works in Oak forests, 74 

 ,, ,, in direct sowings, 235 



Dry soils, 15 



Drying-houses for conifer seeds, 240 



Dunes, the Gascon, how formed, 248 



> early attempts to fix, 249 



present method of fixing, 250-254 



, "littoral Dune," 250 



Baltic, 266 



E 



Elder, found with silver fir, 78 

 Elders, counted as brushwood, 5 

 Elm, the common, as a standard, 136, 145 

 Elms, seed of, to be sown at once, 205, 208, 218 

 Epicormic, derivation of the word, 32, note 



,, branches, evil effects of, on oak, 32, 158 



pruning off of, after final cutting, 32, 47, 71 

 after secondary cutting, 70 



on oak standards, 159 

 _ . >> . . on hornbeam, 70 



Euphorbia, used in fixing the Dunes, 249 

 Exploit, to. defined, 6 

 Exploitable defined, 6 

 Exploitability of forests, 17, 20 



F 



Festuca, used in fixing the Dunes, 249 

 Final cutting, in natural method, 31 

 Fire, method of controlling, in Sartage, 125 

 Firing, surface, in the Ardennes, 124" 

 open air, 125 

 ,, in heaps, 127 

 First class standards defined, 134 



> )> cover of, not injurious, 138 



> pruning lower branches of, 164 



Forest vegetation, influence of aspect on 9 

 Fourth class standards, 134 

 Furetage, 128 

 Furze, used in fixing the Dunes, 252, 266 



fl 



Galipot, 259 

 Gemmage a mort, 257 



& vie, 257 



Germination, conditions essential to, 24 

 Glade, open, defined, 4 

 Gorse counted as brushwood, 5 



