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Preface
THIS book is, by permission, based on Schlich's Manual of Forestry. It has been written to supply a cheap book on scientific forestry for foresters and woodmen, few of whom can afford the more expensive works, and was at first drawn up for the use of the School of Forestry for Working Men in the Forest of Dean. I am greatly indebted to Sir William Schlich, K.C.I. E., F.R.S., Professor of Forestry in the University of Oxford, and to the late Mr. W. R. Fisher, under whom I studied the subject while at Cooper's Hill College, for giving me permission to make use of the Manual of Forestry and to reproduce some of the illustrations from that work. I have also referred in Chapter I to Gifford Pinchot's A Primer of Forestry, and to Bridges's and Dicks's Plant Study; I have occasionally referred to Nisbet's The Forester, Forbes's English Estate Forestry, Simpson's The New Forestry and The Estate Nursery. The part on hedges is indebted to Maiden's Hedges and Hedgemaking. Most
of the photographs were taken by myself; some are by Mr. R. C. Milward or Mr. M. C. Duchesne, who have kindly allowed me to reproduce them. The other illustrations are from Schlich's Manual. My thanks are due: to Mr,
J. P. Popert, Consulting Forester to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and to Mr. A. G. Hobart-Hampden, Agent to the Earl of Buckinghamshire, both retired Conservators of the Indian Forest Department, for reading through the manuscript and for much valuable advice and help in its preparation, and to Professor J. Bretland Farmer for revising the botanical part of the book.
C. O. HANSON.
LATIMER LODGE, CINDERFORD.
CONTENTS
Chapter I. THE LIFE HISTORY OF A TREE
Chapter II. TREE GROWTH IN RELATION TO CLIMATE AND SOIL
Chapter III. PURE AND MIXED WOODS
Chapter IV. NURSERY MANAGEMENT
Chapter V. SOWING AND PLANTING IN THE FOREST
Chapter VI. TENDING OF WOODS
Chapter VII. METHODS OF TREATMENT (including natural regeneration)
Chapter VIII. PROTECTION OF WOODS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND INSECTS
Chapter IX. PROTECTION OF WOODS AGAINST WEEDS AND FUNGI
Chapter X. PROTECTION OF WOODS AGAINST FROST, DROUGHT, STORMS, AND FIRES
Chapter XI. SYLVICULTURAL NOTES ON BROAD-LEAVED TREES
Chapter XII. SYLVICULTURAL NOTES ON CONIFERS
Chapter XIII. FENCING AND DRAINING
Chapter XIV. FELLING AND MEASUREMENT OF TIMBER
Chapter XV. WORKING PLANS
Chapter XVI. THE USES OF BRITISH TIMBER
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