INDEX 



185 



Hares, damage to plantations 

 by, 127 



High meadow woods, the, 146 



Holding Act, Small, 116 



Holdings, small, 19, 103, 116- 

 19 



Home-Grown Timber Com- 

 mittee, The, 54, 70, 74 . 



House-building schemes in 

 Britain, 80, 1 19 



Hylobius weevilj 72, 130 



Ireland, forestry in, 49 



Land Acquisition Act, 153 



— area of afforestable land in 

 Britain, 107, 155 



— for afforestation, methods 

 of acquisition, 152, 157 



— in Britain, ownership of, 

 152, 153- 



— required for afforestation, 



155-57 

 Law, absence of a forest, in 

 Britain, 121 



— forest, in Norman times, 18 

 Leasing land for afforestation, 



159 



Magna Charta, 20 

 Markets, requirements of 

 British timber in early times, 



25 

 Matches, shortage of supplies 



during the war, 1 10 

 Murman port and North 



Russian forests, 98 



New Forest, 13, 18, 21, 70 

 Nursery work (forest) during 

 the war, 70, 71 



Oak tree defoliator, 131 



Paper, shortage of supplies 



during the war, in 

 Park, the, 18 

 Peace Conference and League 



of Nations, 163 



Pheasants and forestry, 133, 



137 

 Pit- wood supplies and the war, 



53 

 Planting, cessation of, in 

 Britain, 27 



— during the war, 69 



— schemes in Britain, 104, 166 

 Protection of forests, 121 

 against animal (mammal) 



.pests, 124 



bird pests, 128 



domestic animals, 122, 



123 



— fire, 122 



game animals, 133 



man, 121 



— noxious insects, 129 



plants and fungi, 132 



Purlieu, 20, 23 



Rabbits, damage to planta- 

 tions by, 124 



Reconstruction Committee, ap- 

 pointment of, during the 

 war, 75 



Salonika, the timber market 



of, 93 

 Scandinavian forests, 28 

 Sheep, acclimitisation problem, 



156 

 Sporting lands required for 



afforestation, 155 

 State ownership jDf forest land, 



155. 157 . , , 



State versus pnvate forests, 



148 

 Statute of Enclosure, 23 

 Statute of Woods, 24 

 Summary of conclusions on 



commercial forestry in 



Britain, 175 

 Sylva, Evelyn's, 25. 27 



Teak, introduction of Moul- 



mein, 28 

 Timber, British, decreased use 



of, 28, 29 



