CHAPTER XXXIV

AFFORESTING WASTE LANDS AND THE FINANCIAL RETURNS THEREFROM 282

INDEX 295

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE Arrangement of Plantations 33 Band and Connecting-Rod 166 Barking Tools 222 Beam Tree in London 103 Beech Tree 50 Blasting and Burning Tree Roots 273 Bracing a Tree 165 Cricket Bat Willow 55 Elm Tree Destroyer 199 Faulkner’s Transplanting Machine 140 Felling Tools 143 Goat Moth 201 Hedging Tools 185 Larch Canker 213 Measuring the Height of Trees 271 Method of Levelling 39 Oak Fences 262 Plan of Nursery 27 Plane Tree in Regent’s Park 99 _Polyporus Sulphureus_ 219 _Polyporus Squamosus_ 216 Pruning Tools 153 Pruning, Bad effects of 155 Rustic Wooden Fence, Strong Mortised Fence, Strong Paling Fence 262 Sawn Wooden Fence 261 Section of Charcoal Pit 229 Savin Juniper as a Town Shrub 108 Slate Fences 259 Spirit-Level 39 Stone and Wire Fence 257 Tools used in Planting 43 Tools used in Draining 37 Tools required in Nursery 29 Tools for Fencing 264 Tree Guards 266 Weymouth Pine at Gwydyr Castle 61 Wire Fence with Wooden Posts 263 Willow Beetle 197 Wood Leopard Moth 203 Witch’s Broom on Willow 209, 210

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