CONTENTS, XI 



Part IV. — Notices of Authors who treat of 

 Arboriculture. 



Utility of a general review of these authors, P. 138 



L — Forester's Guide, by Mr Monteath, . . 140 



Advantage of converting our coppice oak into forest, 



and of saving our home oak iu time of peace, 140 

 Plan, by IVIr Monteath, of preparing peat soils for 



planting, ..... 



of covering hare rocky ground with timber, 



of raising oak-forest or copse by layers. 



Influence of our vernal eastern breeze on vegetation. 

 Cause why the trees of narrow belts seldom grow to 



large timber, . . . . .148 



Observations on pruning and thinning, . .150 

 Observations on the age at which the valuable part 



of oak bark is thickest, . . . .154 



Observations on the prevention of dry-rot, . 157 



II. — Nicol's Planter's Calendar, . . . 163 



Different influence of transplanting on herbaceous 

 and woody vegetables, . . .164 



Cutting the roots close in, injurious to some trees 

 and not to others, . . . .165 



Mr Bang's plan of raising forest from the seed in situ, 167 



Reasons which render the planting of young trees 

 preferable to sowing in situ, . . .168 



]VIr Sang's directions for nursery practice ; sowing 

 the different kinds of forest trees in the seed-bed; 

 removing the seedlings to the nursery line, and 

 from thence to the field, . . .170 



Remarks on transplanting, . . .178 



III. — Billington on Planting, . . .181 

 An account of the management of the Royal Forests, ib. 

 Reasons why government should rather purchase 



than raise timber, and that they should sell off 



the Royal Forests, . . . .182 



