278 INDEX. 



Old high forest defined, 4 

 Open crop defined, 4 

 Open glade defined, 4 

 Open primary cutting, definition of, 28 

 > when made, 28 



Osier used in slipping, 246. 



P 



Period defined, 2 

 Periodic block defined, 3 



Pines, seed of the, season and manner of gathering, 205 

 Pine Cluster, number of seeds in given weight or volume, 215 

 quantity of seed to sow per acre, 240 

 method of planting, in the Dunes, 252 

 tapping of, for resin, 254 et sqq. 

 disease of the, 266 

 wood of, character and uses, 263 

 Pitch made from resin of Cluster pine, 263 

 Pitting, 226 



Plank used in sowing nursery beds, 213 

 Planting or putting out, manner of, 225 

 ,, ,, season for, 225 



, , versus sowing, 201 



Poles, low, defined, 4 



,, high, defined, 4 

 Pollards, 169 

 Poor soils, 16 



Poplars, included in soft woods, 5 

 Potato, cultivation of, to clean the ground, 130 

 Preparatory cuttings, 183 

 Primary cutting, objects it should realise, 27 

 ,, close, defined, 27 



,, when made, 28 



, , . open, defined, 28 



,, when made, 28 



, , when repeated, 31 



Privet counted as brushwood, 5 

 Protective belts of forest, 40, 127, 194 

 Pruning off of epicormic branches, 32, 47, 71, 158 

 ,, distinguished from lopping, 158 

 of reserves in regeneration cuttings, 29 

 ,, dead branches in spruce and silver fir, 107 

 Psamma arenaria used in fixing the Dunes, 251 

 Pyrenean oak, reproduction of, in coppice, 114 



Q 



Quarre, in treatment of Cluster pine, 257 et sq^. 



