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CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUM E.

ADVERTISEMENT.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECTS.

SUBJECT THE FIRST.

PLANTING.

DIVISION THE FIRST.

MANUAL OPERATIONS:

Introductory Remarks, 5.

Cautions to Young Planters, 5.

Encouragements to Planting, 6.

SECT. I. Propagating Trees and Shrubs, 8:

Situation of the Seminary, 12.

Size of Seed Beds, 13.

Methods of fowing, 13.

Defending the Seeds and Seedlings, 14.

Raifing in Beds of Compoft, 16.

Raifing in Pots, &c. 16.

SECT. III. Planting out Nursery Plants, 30.

Preparing the Ground, 30.

The Seafon of Planting, 32.

Pruning and Sorting the Plants, 32.

Planting them, 33.

Attendance after Planting, 37.

Cleaning the Plantation, 38.

Pruning the Young Trees, 38.

Thinning them, 40.

SECT. IV. Tranfplanting Tall Plants, 40.

DIVISION THE SECOND.

CHOICE OF TIMBER TREES.

SECT. I. Confumption of Timber, 47.

I. By Ships, 49.

II. By Buildings, 49.

III. By Machines, 50.

IV. By Utenfils, 51.

The feveral Species of Timber used, by the

different Workers in Wood, 49 to 53.

SECT. II. Situation and Soils, 54.

DIVISION THE THIRD.

HEDGES AND HEDGEROW TIMBER.

Introductory Remarks, 55.

The Effects of Hedgerows on cultivated

Lands, 56.

Species of Hedges, 57.

SECT. I. Species of Hedge Woods, 58.

Hawthorn, 59.

Crabthorn, 60.

The Aquatics, 60.

Holly, 61.

Furze, 63.

SECT. II. Method and Seafon of Planting, 64.

I. The Fence Wood, 64.

General View of the Practice, 65.

Planting with Ditch and Plain Bank, 71.

Planting with a Ditch and Offset, 71.

Planting upon level Ground, 73.

Time of Planting, 74.

On the Holly and Crab, 74.

On the Furze as a Guard, 75

II. The Hedgerow Timber, 76.

The Species; the Oak; for Ship Timber, 77.

Method of raifing it, 77.

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