INDEX. 
Nursery ground, exposure, soil, 36. 
drains, fences, 37. 
—— manures, 3, 38, 39. 
— plants, selecting of, 47. 
Oak, British, 262. 
its propagation, 16, 51, 264. 
—— remarkable specimens of, 267. 
—— in Scotland, 270. 
—— bark, its preparation, 129. 
—— its advantages planted in fir woods, 76. 
— mode of preparing plants of, 4, 5, 265. 
—— galls, 272. 
—— American, 275. 
—— common evergreen, 276. 
— cork-tree, 278. 
— Fulham, Lucombe, and Turner's, 274. 
Pine-tree, Scotch, 156. ig 
—— of thirty-five years’ growth, 57. 
—— not apt to die after rooting, 103. 
—— first notice of its varieties, 158. 
— march boundaries sometimes divide the 
sorts of, 159. 
—— Loudon on varieties: apt to degenerate, 
159. 
—— imported seed yield tender plants, 161. 
— mode of extracting seed from cones, 163. 
— time of sowing, 164. 
—— plants suitable for bare exposed ground, 
165. : 
—— picturesque effect of, 166. 
—— a favourite tree with Wordsworth, 167. 
—remarkable root of, at Blackfriars 
Haugh, 167. 
—— fine specimens of, 166, 168, 170. 
—— large plank of, at Gordon Castle, 169. 
—— native forest vegetation, 170. 
—— forest of Abernethy, 171. 
—— difference in appearance of kinds, 174. 
—— native wood very durable, 175. 
—— native tested with Riga fir, 176. 
—— subject to the attack of insects, 176. 
—— Sylvestris Haguenensis, 178. 
—— pumilio mughus, and montana, 178. 
— sorts adapted to intercept snow-drift, 
179. 
—— Lander's advice respecting the tree, 161. 
—— Excelsa, and Lambertiana, 185. 
— Laricio or Corsican, and Austrian, 180. 
—— pinaster adapted to seaside planting, 181. 
—— —— extensive woods of, in Norfolk, 
182. 
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Pine-tree, Ponderoso, Cambra, 183. 
— Strobus, 184. 
Pear-tree, wild, its-uses, 370. 
Peat-soil, pure, unfavourable to growth, 59. 
Pit-planting, 65. 
Plane-tree, oriental, 362. 
occidental, 365. 
Plantations, rise and progress of, in Britain, 
19. 
—— extensive, by the Earl of Seafield, 23. 
—— on moorland, 54. 
—— cheap and successful, 56. 
—— of rapid growth and value in thirty-five 
years, 57. 
—— on prepared or trenched ground, 66. 
—— kind most profitable in remote districts, 
68. 
—— on a surface of grassy vegetation, 71. 
—— on ground where timber has stood, 72. 
— on hog or peat soil, 77. ; 
—— on ground overspread with furze, 78. 
—— on ground at a great altitude, 79. 
— of larch thirty-two years old, and value 
of, 85. 
of hardwood generally permanent, 92. 
—— sea-side, 93. 
Poplar, the best kinds, 316. 
—— propagation, 317. 
—— white and grey, 319. 
trembling, 321. 
—— Lombardy, 322. 
— uses of the tree in a living state, 324. 
—— black Italian, 325. 
—— balsam, 326. 
—— Ontario, 327. 
—— pruning not recommended—disease, 329. 
~—— recorded opinions of the tree, 330, 
—— timber, 330. ; 
Prices, usual, for nursery plants, 409. 
Privet for hedges, 150. 
Propagation by laying stools, 351. f 
Protection of seedlings against frost, 8. 
Pruning forest trees, its use denied by 
theorists, 134. 
—— coniferous trees seldom necessary, 82- 
134. 
—— knife the only necessary implement, 
135. 
—— where of greatest value, 137. 
—— evil results of injudicious, 138. 
—— oak for shipbuilding, 139. 
—— trees for picturesque effect, 140. 
—— hedge tops, 11. 
