INDEX. 199 
Scientific data wanting for New Zealand orestry for seventy-eight year: ~ 
visit to Cheeseman’s investigation of Pte he of ID ie as 61% 
Scotch-pine—14, 72: Royal forest of La Granja, Spain, in New Zealand latitudes—124 
Season, Felling in—80. 
Seeding, Preparing the forest-floor for—122. 
Seedlings and seeding of Kauri—26, 27. 
Seed-years :—In Europe and India—1l19: the sheet of Oak in the Forest of Dean—119 
Sentimental forestry—-157. a 
Sequoia giganten (“* Big tree ’””)—45: S. sempervirens (Redwood)—46. 
Settlement -—Land and State forestry in New Zealand—5, 54, 94, 108, 114, 183, 187: 
forest settlement in South Africa, one family (whites) per 100 acres of forest—108 : 
settlement long overlooked with forest labour in New Zealand—109, 
sah 8 lo and light-demanding trees: a basic point in the New Zealand forest—- 
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Short-leaf Pitch-pine : timber production less than three-fourths Kauri—14, 138, 
Sihlwald, a model forest, strip-felling in—79. 
Silky-oak (Grevillea robusia), a tree for northern forests—143. 
Silver-fir :—The shade-bearing conifer of Europe—61, 64, 85, 160: growth figures 
deleted—1€1. 
Silvicultural systems for New Zealand forests—78. : 
Sim, T. R., on natural regeneration in the native forest—29, 124: systematic forestry 
in South Africa for thirty years past—-169. 
Simmonds, Rev. J. H.—-59. 
Soil-maintenance with interplanting and preserving the under-forest in New Zealand 
| as with Beech mixture in Europe,—133: Kauri—54, 
Soldiers returned (see ‘* Returned soldiers ”’). 
Somerville, Dr., and Appalachian stand of timber—.84. 
South Africa :—Practical working of the bush in—88 : logging—80: account of forestry 
in South Africa by a Canadian forester—90: natural regeneration— 124: current 
expenditure on forestry about £200,000 yearly—90: bush-working population sup- 
ported at rate of one family per 100 acres—l108: T. R. Sim’s description of natura! 
regeneration in the New Zealand class of forest in South Africa—124: cost of 
plantations in, £10 to £15—130. 
Southern Hemisphere timber-market worth some £7,500,000 (see also Part TI)—6, 183: 
wants timber more than grass—184, 186. 
Spacing seedlings as an aid to natural regeneration, importance in New Zealand forests 
—121: espacement in the normal European forest—130. 
Spruce, European :—Resin-tapping—35: silviculturally like Kauri—84: one of the 
five chief timbers of Europe—85: of Saxony—101: planting of Spruce in Saxony 
—123: a partial failure in New Zealand— 165. 
Stands of timber :—New Zealand, American, European, and African compared—64, 84, 
85: New Zealand and Australia—157 : summary— 184. 
“Stand at Puhipuhi: only one-quarter of the maximum is taken for the average 
stand—60, 61. 
Standards of Kauri—130, 131. 
State-managed forests of Prussia (see ‘‘ Prussia’’), 
State forests of various European countries, yields of : mnemonic—-186. 
Statistics, forest : an appendix to Part II—91, 103. 
Statistics of the Puhipuhi Forest—60. 
Stinkwood (Qcotea bullata) the premier timber of South Africa—79., 
Stocking required at regeneration of normal Kauri forest—84. 
Stone-pine (Pinus pinea): valuable nuts, fair timber, and good grazing as a tree of the 
field in northern Spain ; fails from disease in South Africa—I164. 
Strip-planting of self-spreading trees—155, 156, 188: strip-felling a system of forest 
management— 79. 
Strobus-pine now hopelessly diseased in Europe after growing well as a forest-tree for 
200 years—-165. ; : 
Summary of facts, Puhipuhi Forest—70: general recapitulation—178 to 189. 
Surveying, roading, and grazing, cost of —169. 
Swamp lands and Kauri—146, 
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Taper of Kauri—47. 
Tariff protection for home-grown timber—102. j : oO. 1 
Tawa and Taraire silviculturally to Kauri what Beech is to Oak in Europe—80: lower 
story of —83. 5 ; 
Teak te low stand in the wild forest—82: its royalty value in India 93d. per cubie 
foot-—-194: a durable softwood—105: supplies in India and Java—105. 
Tea-tree or Manuka, the “ nurse-tree ’’ for Kauri—122. 
