CONTENTS. 



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PREFACE i - - * - v 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES - xvii 



INTRODUCTION. Importance of ensuring a future 

 supply of Navy Timber - 1 



Section I. Situations and Soils for a Nursery - 19 

 II. Situations for Forest and Grove Plant- 

 ations, &c. 



1. Forests - 28 



2. Groves 40 

 III. Situations for Woods and Coppices. 



1. Woods 4$ 



2. Coppices - 47 

 IV. Soils best adapted to the different kinds 



of Forest Trees 49 



V. Kinds of Trees fitted for Forests, Groves, 

 Woods, &c. with their Properties and 

 Uses 70 



Deciduous - 72 



Evergreen 106 



Value of Timber, and short View of 

 the Advantages to be derived from 

 Planting - -. - 119 



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