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INDEX. 



Pinus Scotica (Scotch fir) most com- 

 monly met with in Scotland, 36. 

 Opinion that two distinct species 

 of, exist in Scotland, first broach- 

 ed in an able Treatise on Plant- 

 ing in the Quarterly Review, 

 ascribed to Sir Walter Scott, re- 

 futed, 37-42. 



Plane or Sycamore, description of, 

 48. Soil most proper for, 105. 

 Proi)erties and uses of, 391. 



Planting, national advantages of, 1- 

 7. Private advantages of, 8-10. 

 Improves pasture of waste lands 

 and prepares them for agricul- 

 ture, 12-14. Reasons why it en- 

 riches the land, 14-18. Advan- 

 tages to farming from wood near 

 farms, 19-20. Important for the 

 sake of fuel in some parts of the 

 country, 20. Improves scenery, 

 20. Objections to, from the time 

 required to bring wood to matu- 

 rity, answered, 21. Description 

 of various methods of, 136-143. 

 By contract, advantages of and 

 price per acre, 153-157. 



Plants, injured by being too much 

 crowded in the Nursery, 89. 

 Those betraying symptoms of dis- 

 ease should be avoided, 90. Symp- 

 toms of decay described, 91-92. 



Pleasure grounds, speedily wooding 

 of, hints for, 337-368. 



Pontey, Mr, his error in saying that 

 spruce will thrive in dry ground, 

 130. 



Poplar, description of, 52-53. Soil 

 most proper for, 107- Aspen pop- 

 lar at Abergeldie, ibid. Proper- 

 ties and uses of, 393. 



Preparation of the ground for a nur- 

 sery, 60. Of the soil for planting 

 waste lands, 120-130. 



Preservation of the seeds of trees, 

 77. Fir seeds most troublesome 

 to preserve, ibid. Time for ga- 

 thering and extracting their seeds 

 described, ibid. Kiln-drying, 79. 

 Threshing and attention when on 

 the kiln, 80. 



Propagating by cuttings and layers 

 in the nursery described, 74. 



Pruning, neglect of, a serious error 

 in the cultivation of wood, 28. 

 Performance of, on wrong prin- 

 ciples, still more dangerous, ibid. 



Pruning of firs reprobated, 29. 

 Mr Pontey's system of pruning 

 firs disapproved of, 158-165. Di^ 

 ferent methods of described, 167- 

 173. Season for, I71. 



Pulverization of the soil produced 

 by trees, 18, note. 



Purchasing plants, 84. Gross error 

 in, 86. Seedling larch large 

 enough for being removed from 

 the nursery, 87. Hardiness of 

 the plants, how to be ascertained, 

 88. 



Qualities of soil most proper for the 

 different varieties of forest-trees, 

 93. 



Quality of soil most proper for oak, 

 100-103. Ash, 103-4. Elm, 114. 



Quantity of oak patches to an acre, 

 235. 



Quarrying stones for dikes, and 

 quantity of required for a rood of 

 dike, expense of and of carriage 

 per mile, &c. 409-411. 



Raspberry, wild, a proper plant for 

 encouraging and sheltering game 

 in woods, such as the hare, phea- 

 sant, &c. 288. 



Recovery of oak wood in a sickly or 

 unthriving condition, 264-268. 



Renewmg oak plantations, 250. 



Roads in plantations, directions for 

 making, 149-150. 



Roots of trees derive food from the 

 substrata, 14. 



Rotation of crops in'a nursery, 64-65. 



Sap, circulation of, described, 165- 

 167. 



Saving the seeds of trees, 54. 



Scenery, natural, may be improved 

 by planting, 20. 



Scotch fir ( Pinus Scotica J, soil pro- 

 per for, 97. 



Season of planting, and distance and 

 order of plants, 143-150. 



Seedling firs a certain size before 

 they can be taken from the nur- 

 sery, 56. 



Seeds of trees, preservation of, 77- 

 Seventy-four gun ships, quantity 

 of timber required for the erection 

 of, 3. Scarcity of oak timber for 

 that purpose in the] Royal Fo- 

 rests, 4. 



