INDEX. 



445 



375. Remarkable instance of the 

 incombustible nature of ibid, note. 

 Piles of, at Venice, 376. Con- 

 struction of into agricultural im- 

 plements, 377- A substitute for 

 oak in shipbuilding, 378-386. 

 Roots of, excellent ship - knees, 

 382. Directions for making of, 

 382. Plate showing a larch root 

 before being cut out for knees, 

 385. Plate showing two roots 

 about to be made into knees, 384. 

 Plate showing a root made into 

 knees, 385. Common price of 

 larch-knees, 386. 



Layers, propagation of trees by, 74. 



Leaves of trees form vegetable 

 mould, and manure the ground 

 where they fall, 14. 



Lime, an excellent manure for oak, 

 228. Lining oak patches, direc- 

 tions for, ibid. Difference be- 

 tween the oaks in the limed and 

 un limed patches, 242. 



Lime-tree, description of, 50-51. 

 Properties and uses of, 391. 



Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Garden- 

 ing, errors in, regarding the culti- 

 vation of spruce, larch, and Scotch 

 fir in the nursery, 31-32. Recom- 

 mendation of, to force earth in nur- 

 series disapproved of, 33. 



Manuring of nursery-ground, 63. 

 Mar forest, gigantic specimens of 



Scotch fir in, 96. 

 Measuring timber, tables for, 425- 



438. Stone-dikes, table for, 439. 

 Monteath's suggestions concerning 



a nursery, 84, note. 



Nursery, choice of ground for, 54- 

 60. Preparation of the groimd 

 for, 61. Rotation of crops, 64, 65, 

 Sowing the seeds of trees, 65-70. 

 Transplanting, 70-73, note. Pro- 

 pagating by cuttings and layers, 

 74. Weeding, 75-76. Pruning, 

 76. Saving the seeds of trees, 77. 

 Extracting the seeds, 78, Kiln- 

 drying fir-seeds, 79. Threshing 

 the cones, 80. The kiln most pro- 

 per for drying fir-cones, 82. Seeds 

 rendered useless by being kept in 

 bags, &c. 8?. 



Nurserymen undertake to plant 

 waste lands per acre, 153-155. 



Nurseries, public, prices of young 

 trees in, 413-421. 



Nurses for oaks and other deciduous 

 trees, directions for planting of, 

 221. Trees proper for protection 

 of young oaks from spring and 

 autumnal frosts, 222-224. 



Oak, quantity of, used in building a 

 ship of 74 guns, 3. Description 

 of, 45-47, Difference of, 46. Soil 

 proper for, 100-103. Culture and 

 management of, 182. Opinion 

 that the soil and climate of Scot- 

 land are not calculated for the 

 production of, examined and re- 

 futed, 182-200. Great quantities 

 of, planted in the counties of A- 

 berdeen, Banff, Moray, &c. &c. 

 184. Abundance of, in Scotland 

 in former ages, proved by old 

 buildings being mostly construct- 

 ed of it, 190, note. Discovery of 

 a wooden bridge of oak over the 

 river Dee, near Ballater, 191, note. 

 Defects and errors of the common 

 method of propagating, 200-220. 

 Evil of transplanting, 203-208. 

 Common method of planting oak 

 disproved of, 214. New method 

 of rearing, 220-237. Experiments 

 illustrative of the advantages of 

 the new method, 238-240. Di- 

 rections for rearing succession 

 crops of, and recovering oaks in 

 a sickly or unthriving condition, 



247. Thinning oak plantations, 

 and value of thinnings per acre, 



248. Recovery of oak in a sickly 

 condition, 264-268. A proper 

 plant for underwood, and propa- 

 gation of, as such, 286. Proper- 

 ties and uses of, 372. 



Oak coppice, sheltering of, 2^9. Sell- 

 ing of, 260. Cutting of, 261. 



Oak stools, dressing of, 252. Leav- 

 ing shoots for coppice, 254-256. 

 Pruning of, ibid. 



Paring and burning, directions for, 

 128, 129. 



Pasture, argument that planting di- 

 minishes the value of, considered, 

 11. Quality of, improved by 

 planting, ibid. 



Pine-forests, the finest in the king, 

 dom, to be found in Aberdenshire, 

 31, note. 



