CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



ENGLISH rOEESTS AND OKIQIN OF rOKESTRT 



Probable Extent and Condition of English Forests in Prehistoric Times — 

 Influence of the Bomau Occupation on Natural Woodland — The 

 Forest Laws of the Normans — Causes of Gradual Reduction of the 

 Natural Forest Area — Effect of the Charta Foresta — Rise of Economic 

 Forestry in England owing to the Gradual Exhaustion of the Natural 

 Supply — Early Attempts at Forest Conservation in the Fourteenth, 

 Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries — Effect of the Reformation on 

 Monastic Woodlands — Destruction of Timber during the Civil War — 

 John Evelyn and his Efforts in the cause of Forest Planting — Scarcity 

 of Naval Timber during the Eighteenth Century — Influence of Estate 

 Development on Forestry during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 

 Centuries — Landscape Gardening and its Effect on English Forestry 

 — The Evolution of the Modern Plantation . • . . 



CHAPTER II 



PRESENT CONDITION OP ENGLISH FORESTRY 



Area of English Woodlands — Position of Estate Woodlands in Rural 

 Estate Economy — Sylviculture in English Forestry, and the Eflfeets 

 upon it of Arboriculture and Landscape Gardening — General Condition 

 of English Plantations — Sylvicultural Systems — Financial Results of 

 English Forestry — Game and English Forestry . . .19 



CHAPTER III 



PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES OP ENGLISH FOEESTET 



Possible Extension of the Woodland Area — Waste Land and Soils adapted 

 for Planting — Financial Results Possible or Probable — Improvement 

 of existing Woodlands — Desirability of State Aid for the Woodland 

 Proprietor — The Finance Act of 1894 ..... 



