CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



Page 



Planting of Waste Land, . . . 120 



Sect. 1. Preparation of the ground for the reception 



of the plants, . . . ih. 



Sect. 2. On the Age which the different kinds of 

 trees ought to be when they are removed 

 from the Nursery to Waste Land — De- 

 scription of various Methods of Planting, 130 



Sect. 3. Season of Planting — Distances and Order 



of the Plants — Roads in Plantations, 143 



Sect. 4. Supplementary remarks — Shelter for Deci- 



duous Trees, &c. . . . 150 



CHAPTER Vn. 



Management of Woods, . . .158 



Sect. 1. Pruning, . , . , ib. 



Sect. 2, Thinning, . . . .173 



CHAPTER Vin. 



On the Culture and Management of Oak, , 182 



Sect. 1. Opinion that the soil and climate of Scot- 

 land are not calculated for the produc- 

 tion of Oak, examined and refuted, ib. 



Sect. 2. On the defects and errors of the common 



method of propagating Oak, . 200 



Sect. 3. New method of rearing Oak described, 220 



