414 
Fences to protect young hedges, 152. 
—— for plantations, 43. 
Fir, silver, 196. 
—— spruce, 187. 
Fulham Oak, 274. 
Furze or whin, its use as a hedge, 151. 
Goat-willow, large specimen, 95. 
Grafting in plantations for embellishment, 
141, 
Grass on sand apt to kill young plants, 105. 
Grassy herbage, planting on, 71. 
Hand-iron or planting spade, 54. 
— not well known in England, 55. 
Hawthorn, 383. 
Hazel, 293. 
Hedges, 148. 
— mode of formation, 144. 
—— how to renovate old thorn, 154. 
—— plants mixed, 147. 
Hedgerow timber, its uses, 117. 
—— frequent cause of failure, 118. 
— kinds for rough exposure, 120. 
—— for ornament, 120. 
— mode of planting, 121. 
—— necessity of pruning, J21. 
—— evil effects of nails in trees, 122. 
Highland Society—efforts to improve Scotch 
fir plantations, 160. 
Holly, 147, 400. 
— times of removal, 149. 
—— affects the shade, propagation, etc., 401. 
—— its native habitat in the north, 403. 
Hornbeam, 148, 297. 
Horse-chestnut, 367. 
—— celebrated trees of, 368. 
Trish yew, 408. 
Juniper, common, 249. 
—— Virginian, or red cedar, 250. 
—— Spanish and Bermudas cedar, 251. 
Kincorth plantations, 99. 
—— mode of thinning, profit, etc., 100. 
Laburnum, common sorts, 393. 
—— purple flowering, 395. 
Larch, its introduction into England, 206. 
—— in Scotland during the seventeenth cen- 
tury, 207. 
-—— imported plants of little value, 209. 
INDEX. 
Larch, British-grown first planted at Atholl, 
209, 
—— extent of Atholl larch forests, 210. 
—— from foreign seed, 211. 
—— mode of extracting seed, 213. 
—— time of sowing, 214. 
—— soil and situation congenial for, 217. 
—— its growth in Morayshire, 57, 219. 
—— at Brahan and Ballindalloch, 220. 
—— at Monymusk, 221. 
— favourite tree with King Leopold 1. of 
Belgium, 223. 
—— common cause of failure, 225. 
—— subject to the attack of insects and 
disease, 50, 87, 214, 226, 228, 231. 
—— timber, uses of, 282. 
progress of one-year plants in moors, 59. 
plantation thirty-two years old, cost, 
growth, value, 85. 
—— liable to be blown over, 87. 
—— adapted to subdue furze, 79. 
—— fertilizing effect of the leaves of, 233. 
Laurel, common, 380. 
—— Portugal, 381. 
—— hardy through acclimatation, 382. 
Lime-tree,‘common, 350. 
—— mode of laying and propagating, 351. 
remarkable specimens of, 352. 
—— its bark and wood, 354. 
—— small-leaved, 354. 
—— American, 355. 
Locust-tree, 396. 
—— Cobbett’s report respecting, 398. 
Maple, common, or sycamore, 344. 
—— Norway, 346. 
——. other sorts, 347, 348. 
Mode of preparing oaks, and bare-rooted 
plants for being transplanted, 4, 5, 265. 
Modes of forest-planting, 53, 65, 71. .. 
Moorland to be disturbed before planting, 10. 
Moorland plantations, number of plants em- 
ployed per acre, 60. 
—— the usual mixture, 61. 
Mountain ash, 372. 
propagation—fine specimens, 374. 
Natural provisions in indigenous forests, 83. 
Norway maple, 346. 
Norway spruce, 187, 
Notch-planting, 54, 59. 
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