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INDEX 



Douglas fir, Soils adapted for, 105. 



Sylvioultural treatment of, 106. 



Timter, Value of, 105. 



Game cover, 107. 

 Downs, Clumps on, 214. 



Land occupied by, in prehistoric times, 

 3. 

 Draining ground for planting, 114. 



Eastwell, Park at, 248. 



Eighteenth century. Forestry in, 13. 



Elm, English, 252, 262. 



Enemies of English woodlands, chapter 



xii. 

 England, Forests in, 2. 

 English forester. Early training of, 318. 



Education of, 324. 



Evolution of, 314. 



Position of, 321. 



The, chapter xiii. 

 English forestry, Absence of definite 

 ideas on, 34. 



Aspects of, 29. 



in the past, chapter i. 



Financial results of, 44. 



Possibilities of, chapter iii. 



Present condition of, chapter ii. 

 English forests. Description of, 4. 



Destruction of, 6. 



J. R. Green on, 2. 



Probable extent of, in prehistoric 

 times, 3. 

 Bridge, Park at, 248. 

 Estates, Development of, 13. 

 Evelyn, John, author of Sylva, 10. 



on growing ash, 71. 



on growing oak, 60. 



on pruning, 142. 



on thinning, 124. 

 Exotic species. Introduction of, by Romans 

 during seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries, 57, 88. 



Fagus sylvatica, 74. 



Felling timber. Method of, 182. 



Prices for, 183. 



Early references to, 181. 

 Fencing against game, 113. 

 Finance Act, Effect of, on woodlands, 38. 

 Financial results of English forestry, 



44. 

 Fir, Douglas, 105. 



Scots, 98. 



Silver, 67. 

 Fisher, Professor, on sessile-flowered oak, 



68. 

 Fore-ground, Trees in, 209. 

 Forest flora. Indigenous, 1, 2. 

 Forest laws, Manwood on, 7. 

 Forester, The English, chapter xiii. 

 Forester, Office of, in early times, 314. 

 Forests, English, 2 



Prehistoric, 4. 



Submerged, 1. 

 Fraxinus excelsior, 69. 



Game, Influence of, on English forestry, 

 22. 



Garden chafer, 284. 



Gardener, Planting formerly done by 



315. 

 Gardening, Landscape, 13. 

 Gilpin on beech and ash, 237. 

 Glacial Period, 1. 

 Glades, 216. 



Gorse, Destruction of, 112. 

 Government loans, Desirability of, foi 



planting, 51. 

 Greensand, Soils of, 43. 

 Ground game, damage done by, 22. 



Fencing against, 113. 



Protecting trees against, 270. 

 Groups, Park, 260. 

 Groves, Function of, 257. 



Treatment of, 258. 



Trees adapted for, 258. 



Hatfield Chase, Trees found in, 6. 

 Heart-rot in larch, 304. 

 Home nursery, The, chapter viii. 

 Home nursery, Advantages of, 167. 



Area of, 171. 



Hedges for shelter in, 174. 



Laying out, 173. 



Management of, 174. 



Manuring, 175. 

 Honey fungus. Life-history of, 307. 



Preventive measures against, 308. 

 Hiirdle-maker, Life of, 189. 

 Hurdle-making, Method of, 188. 



Improvement of woodlands, 52. 

 Indigenous forest trees, 2. 

 Injurious insects, 272. 



Destruction of, by natural enemies, 

 275. 



Usually attack unhealthy trees, 287. 

 Injurious fungi, 288. 



Japanese larch, 96. 



Kemble, author of Saxons in England, 



6. 

 Knowsley, Park at, 248. 



Land adapted for planting, 39. 

 Land, Agricultural, Rent of, 39. 

 Landscape, Effect of trees on, 203. 



forestry, chapter x. 



gardening. Introduction of, 13. 



gardeners, 13. 

 Larch, Heart-rot in, 304. 



Introduction of, 57. 



Ornamental features of, 234. 



Soils for, 90. 



Sylvioultural treatment of, 94. 



Thinning, 94. 

 Larch aphis. Life-history of, 285. 



Importance of, 286. 

 Larch disease, Carruthers on, 291. 



Early authors on, 290. 



BngUsh Arboricultural Society's inves 

 tigations on, 291. 



Life-history of, 291. 



Massie on, 292. 



disease, Probable causes, of, 297. 



