196 INDEX. 
Lambertiana, Pinus—46. 
Land-settlement offered by State forestry in New Zealand—s, 6, 94, 183. 
Land-settlement Acts and forestry : mnemonic—d. 
Lane-Poole—19, 163. 
Largest existing Kauri trees—d1. | 4 hae f 
Largest timber-yielding tree in the world—Kauri—l, 178 (see also ** Kauri—largest "). 
Larch: much failure in New Zealand—165, 
Laricio-pine timber in England and south Kurope—l54. — 
Laslet, Mr., Timber Inspector to British Admiralty—10, 20. 
Lean years—forty—in the ‘** working-plan,”’ proposed—92. 
Leiria Cluster-pine growth—l5. 
* Light in relation to tree-growth * : U.S.A, Forest Bulletin—160. 
Living, Cost of; restricted timber and firewood use in New Zealand—185, 
Log-hauling (see “* Logging ”’). 
Logging :-—Damage done to natural regeneration in—87: tn South Africa, the big Yellow- 
wood trees (Podocarpus )—90 ; log-hauling helps the forester—118. 
Log-measurement—74 to 77: American log rules—76; New Zealand measuring-system 
—75. 
Longifolia-pine, Chir, of the Himalayas, its silviculture and natural regeneration— 
119, 123. 
Lupins: experimental growing on the forest floor; fixes nitrogen like forest-humus, 
and doubles the tree-crowth—132., 


MacMillan, H. R., on forestry in South Africa—90., 
Maiden, Dr.: courtesy title—44. 
Mamaku forest being worked and destroyed by Railway Department—187. 
Management of northern forests—73. 
Mander, Mr. F., M.P.: area of Puhipuhi Forest—57, 60. 
Manuka (see * Tea-tree’’). 
Maori records re the ancient forest—b, 8. 
Marking tmber in a coupe or felling-area -—In South Africa—process described—B89 : 
in United States of America—90, 91: New Zealand bushmen expert at it—91 : 
cost in Auckland Id. per 100 ft. sup—91: T. R. Sim’s description of tt in South 
Africa—124. 
Martin, Mr, J.: his photo studies of Kauri trees a national work—30. 
Massive Kauri—49. 
Matthews on growth of native trees—15: on natural regeneration—125. 
Maxwell (Ranger) on natural regeneration—116, 126: on Kauri soils—54. 
Mid-rotation Kauri reserves—86. 
Miller—thirty- or forty-year milling-periods—88. 
Milled forest ; putting into order with standards at £2 per acre—182. 
Milling (see also Part IT) :—Main crop and thinnings—113: three times the average stand 
of present forests of United States of America and a long-established figure in New 
Zealand—184, 
Millable forest-timber stand, New Zealand, double Appalachian—8s4. 
Million acres of Kauri forest, its value to New Zealand—2 : half-million acres of Kauri, 
sinking fund for war debt—4: mnemonic—5: million population if New Zealand 
had the European forest area—5. 
Minerals—24 ; and forests—170. 
Minor forest produce,” or “ Revenue other than timber "—93, 94. 
Mitchelson, Hon. E., on growth of planted native trees—10, 14, 43. 
** Mixed forest,” Kauri best in—80. ; 
Morrison, W. G.: pines at Hanmer—128, 
Mulching for * bush’ planting—59, 133, 182. 
Museums, Kauri value not shown in—24. 

Native and European trees ;—Comparative growth of—l4: native tree: i 
in northern forests (Hon. E. Mitchelson), 10 RN, pei eee 
5 Wee cus, trees in New Zealand and Africa—154, | | 
Native forest versus plantations of introduced trees—15] to 158: summar 
baud points in plantations of exotic trees—151: four grades of att ees cue 
artificial, discussed—152, 153: the fivefold risk and fivefold interest charge with 
exotics—154: planted trees as nurses for the native trees—154 : the native forest 
of a strong type; no risk with it; instead of needlessly destroying the native 
forest in the working, improve it with development on European lines and the 
planting of strips of selt-spreading exotic trees—155, 156 - popular sentiment 7e the 
