WORKS ON AGRICULTURE, ETC. 11 



Third Edition, much enlarged, in Royal Octavo, with Engravings, price 30s. 



THE FORESTER: 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PLANTING, REARING, AND GENERAL 

 MANAGEMENT OF FOREST TREES. 



By JAMES BROWN, 



Wood-Manager to the Earl of Seafleld, and Surveyor of Woods. 



ha,s>en so much Enlarged and 



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employed by landed proprietors in all parts of the country, in surveying and reporting < 

 it state and future management of plantations, and of grounds adapted for planting. 



the Author has been very extensively 

 ig and reporting on the 

 ,pted for planting. His 



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B former editions, the Author has confined himself entirely to his own experience in forest 

 foreste 8 ' "'d m ^ be6n that aking his work P lain 'y and practically useful as a 



The subject of keeping the Forest Accounts has also been for the first time taken up in the 

 at edition ; and a section has been added containing a complete system of Forest Book- 

 keeping, with examples of all the various Books, and full explanations regarding them. 



SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. 



Importance of Woodlands in Great Britain. The object of planting. The value of wood as a crop upon 

 wi. * r ^- ry M at I )resent understood and practised in Great Britain. Education necessary for forested 

 What portions of the country should be put under trees, and what portions should not Laying out of 

 land for forests and plantations. Stone and lime walls. Dry-stone dykes with lime on cope onlv Turf 

 dykes. Wooden palings. Wire fences. The purpose and situation for which each sort of fence is most 

 properly adapted. Gates. Preparing ground for the growing of young trees. Drainage Laving of and 

 making of roads in new plantations. Trees considered as a profitable crop, and as ornamental objects on 

 landed property. Descriptive character, habit, and peculiarities of the various forest trees Season of the 



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eet. Management of plantations of considerable age, reared with a view to a crop of timber only 

 Rules and regulations necessary to be observed in the cutting-down and selling of trees, whether as thin- 

 nings or clearings of old timber. Rearing and management of plantations for a supply of hop-poles. 

 Management of general coppice plantations. The stripping and drying of bark used for tanning Cause of 

 disease among larch plantations. External symptoms of disease in trees, and general causes of the same. 

 The periodical increase of timber in the different species of forest trees. How to flnd the value of growing 

 plantations, and of full-grown timber trees Method of transplanting large trees, and description of machines 

 for performing that operation. Method of renewing the health of old or decayed trees. Kinds of plants 

 best fitted for underwood, and how they may be planted in a wood so as to produce useful and ornamental 

 effect. Hints in reference to the felling of timber. The application of water and steam powers to the 

 manufacture of timber. The preparing of timber for better preservation. Reporting on woodlands Sys- 

 tem of book-keeping adapted to forest operations. 



" What we have often stated in these columns we now repeat, that the book before us is the 

 most useful guide to good Arboriculture in the English language. The Author is a man of great 

 experience in Scotch forestry, and, moreover, is well grounded in the science of tree cultivation ; 



I improvement in timber management may be fairly ( 



"Beyond all doubt this is the best work on the subject of Forestry extant." Gardeners' Journal. 



In Octavo, Price Five Shillings. 



TIE W 



OF 



THE SALMON-FISHERY OF SCOTLAND. 



WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE, HABITS, AND INSTINCTS OP THE SALMON, AND 

 ON THE LAW AS AFFECTING THE RIGHTS OF PARTIES, ETC. ETC. 



BT THE LATE 



MUKDO MACKENZIE, Esq. of Cardross and Dundonald. 



