Webster’s Practical Forestry

About this eBook

Author

Webster, Angus D., 1855-1931

Title

Webster's practical forestry : A popular handbook on the rearing and growth of trees for profit or ornament

Original Publication

London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1917.

Credits

Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SD: Agriculture: Forestry

Subject

Forests and forestry -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76876

Release Date

September 15, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WEBSTER’S PRACTICAL FORESTRY
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.CHAPTER I FORESTRY AND THE WAR
8. 8.CHAPTER II COLLECTING AND STORING TREE SEEDS
9. 9.CHAPTER III PROPAGATING TREES AND SHRUBS
10. 10.CHAPTER IV THE HOME NURSERY: ITS FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
11. 11.CHAPTER V FORMATION OF PLANTATIONS
12. 12.CHAPTER VI TREES FOR ECONOMIC PLANTING — Coniferous Trees
13. 13.CHAPTER VII PLANTING EXPOSED GROUND
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII SEASIDE PLANTING — Hardwoods — Coniferæ — Shrubs
15. 15.CHAPTER IX TOWN PLANTING, AND THE TREES AND SHRUBS THAT ARE BEST ADAPTED FOR SMOKY LOCALITIES — Trees — Shrubs — Climbers — Coniferous Trees
16. 16.CHAPTER X TREES SUITABLE FOR HEDGEROW AND FIELD PLANTING
17. 17.CHAPTER XI ORNAMENTAL PLANTING — Cut-Leaved, Weeping and Fastigiate Trees
18. 18.CHAPTER XII TREES BEST ADAPTED FOR VARIOUS SOILS
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV THINNING PLANTATIONS
21. 21.CHAPTER XV TREE-PRUNING IN ECONOMIC FORESTRY
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI BRACING AND REPAIRING TREES
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII COPPICE AND UNDERWOOD: THE MANAGEMENT OF COPPICE WOOD
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII THE FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GAME COVERTS
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX HEDGES: THEIR FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
26. 26.CHAPTER XX SHRUBS FOR SHADY SITUATIONS
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI INSECT ENEMIES OF TREES
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII FUNGUS GROWTH ON TREES
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII BARKING OAK
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV THE MANUFACTURE OF CHARCOAL
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV PRICES OF HOME-GROWN TIMBER — Prices of Timber Per Ton Weight
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI BRITISH TIMBER AND SOME OF ITS USES
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII WILLOWS FOR BASKET-MAKING
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII UTILIZING WASTE FOREST PRODUCE
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX FENCING PLANTATIONS
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX TIMBER MEASURING
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI BLASTING AND BURNING TREE ROOTS
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII PRICES OF CONTRACT OR PIECEWORK
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII FOREST AREA OF THE WORLD
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV AFFORESTING WASTE LANDS AND THE FINANCIAL RETURNS THEREFROM
41. 41.INDEX
42. 42.Untitled

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