INDEX 



349 



Pine, shortleaf, 58, 154, 286 

 slash, 58 

 southern, 42 



western white, 210, 274, 275 

 western white, type, 55, 2og 

 western yellow, 48, 80, 81 

 white, 9, 57, 80, 145, 149, 154, 163, 

 177, 199, 202, 246, 277, 278, 288 

 white, weevil, 269 

 Plummer, F. G., 241, 254 

 Polewood coppice method, 116, 117, 



139, 207 

 Pollard head, 119 

 Pollarding, 119, 297 

 Poplar, yellow, g$ 

 Populus deltoides, 49 

 Porcupines, protection against, 293 

 Practice, of silviculture, i, 2 



silvicultural, 2, 12 

 Preparatory cuttings, 60, 63, 68, 76, 80 

 Primary cutting, 71, 74 

 Progressive strip method, 39 

 Protection, s, 6, 41. i°7. i23> i37. 237 

 against animals, other than insects 



and domestic animals, 293 

 against avalanches, 296 

 domestic animals, grazing, 284 

 floods, 296, 297 

 fungi, 274 

 insects, 263 

 landslides, 296, 297 

 shifting sands, 296, 298 

 sun and wind, 30 

 tree diseases, 274 

 cost of, 9 

 fire, 6, 239, 241 

 necessity of, 4 

 to the site, 102, 117 

 Pruning, 136, 138, 143, 198 

 cost of, 202 

 Knapp's system, 202 

 natural, 176, 178, 198 

 Purpose of silviculture, s 



Rabbits, protection against, 294 



Rankin, W. H., 274 



Red oak, 199 



Red spruce, 80, 184 



Release cutting, 142 



Removal cuttings, 60, 64, 68 



Reproduction, cost of, 9 



cuttings, 6, 139, 172, 178, 19s, 210, 

 229 



method, s, n 



methods, classification of, 14 



methods, field identification of, 12 



origin, 18 



period, 6, 13, 70, 144, 178 



slash in relation to, 217 



sprout, 119 



standard, inethods, 11, 15, 16, 142 

 Reserve seed tree method, 52 

 Ribes, 9, 278 

 Rodents, 28, 49 

 Root collar, in 

 Root-rot, 279 

 Root suckers, iii 



Rotation, 13, 59, 77, 89, 91, 100, 107, 

 IIS, 121, 124, 132, 134 



affected by pruning, 198 



lengthened by thinnings, 182 



shortened by thinnings, 156, 158, 



I7S 

 shortened to control fungi, 278 



Salvage cutting, 142, 143, 144, 194, 



208 

 Sampson, A. W., 285 

 Scattered seed trees, 53, 57 

 Scattered seed tree method, 45 

 Schlich, W., 169, 237, 239 

 Schwappach, 138, 169 

 Scrub oak, 147, 256 

 Scrub pine, 42 

 Second growth, 81 

 Secondary cutting, 71 

 Secrest, £., 288 



