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CONTENTS. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. The great Chesnut Tree on Mount Etna, see No. 14?, 



pag-e 81, . . .85 



Plate 11. Figure 1, To represent a Pollard, . . ib. 



^— Figure 2, To represent the converting growths of Natu- 

 ral Stools into timber trees, . . . .86 



— — — Figure 3, A Coppice Stool properly cut and thinned in 



time, . . . ib. 



' Figure 4, A Coppice Stool of Oak cut and dressed in the 

 old system, .... ib. 



Figure 5, Something of the same kind, . * ib. 



■ Figure 6, A representation of an unprotected tree, ib. 



Plate III. Spanish Chesnut at Riccarton— To face title page, 209 



ERRATUM. 



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