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Observations on the prevention of dry-rot, . . . 157

Different influence of transplanting on herbaceous and woody vegetables, . . . 164

Cutting the roots close in, injurious to some trees and not to others, . . . 165

Mr Sang's directions for nursery practice; sowing the different kinds of forest trees in the seed-bed; removing the seedlings to the nursery line, and from thence to the field, . . . 170

Remarks on transplanting, . . . 178

An account of the management of the Royal Forests, . . . ib.

Reasons why government should rather purchase than raise timber, and that they should sell off the Royal Forests, . . . 182

The Billingtonian system of pruning, . . . 185

Remarks on planting soils not easily permeable by water, . . . 187

Mr Billington's directions for planting these soils, . . . 188

Mr Forsyth's surgery of trees, and the value of his composition-salve, . . . ib.

Manner in which a tree can be transformed from disease and rottenness to health and soundness, . . . 193

Discomfiture of our Scottish Knights by Mr Withers, . . . ib.

Account of a number of facts and experiments by the writer, on the comparative strength of quick and slow grown timber--on the influence of circumstance and age in modifying the quality of the timber--on the difference in the quality of different varieties of the same species, and of different parts of the same tree, . . . 199

Oak timber, moderately fast grown, so that it may be of sufficient size, and still retain the toughness of youth, best suited for naval use, . . . 214

Mr Withers, his literary friends and Sir Henry Steuart equally imperfectly acquainted with the subject in dispute between them, . . . 215

The Withers' system neither necessary nor economically suited for the greater part of Scotland, . . . 217

Fallacy of experiments on the strength of timber, from not taking into account the difference of tension of the different annual layers, and their position, whether flat, perpendicular, &c., . . . 221

Importance of whatever may serve to amuse the second childhood of the wealthy, . . . 227

The subject--the art of moving about large trees in general, merely a pandering to our wilfulness and impatience, . . . 227

Intolerable dulness of the park and smooth lawn, . . . 228

Sir Walter Scott's curious effort to give consequence to the art of moving about large trees, . . . 231

Paroxysm of admiration of Sir Walter, at Sir Henry's discoveries, with his hyperbolic figures of comparison, . . . 233

Account of the writer's practice in moving trees of considerable size, . . . 235

Taste of Sir Walter Scott for "home-keeping squires," practisers of the Allanton system, . . . 245

What a British gentleman should be, . . . 246

The Allanton practice described, . . . 249

Quotation from Sir Henry Steuart's volume, in which the philosophy of his practice is described, . . . 254

Summary of Sir Henry's discoveries, . . . 264

Consideration of the accuracy of some of Sir Henry's assertions regarding the desiccated epidermis of trees, and the elongation of the shoots of plants, . . . 265

Sir Henry's assertion that quick-grown timber is inferior to slow-grown, and that culture necessarily renders it softer, less solid, and less durable, not correct, . . . 282

The present climate of Scotland, and of the Orkneys and Shetlands, inferior to a former, . . . 287

That this may have been owing to these islands having once been a portion of the continent, . . . 288

The recent advance and recession of the German Ocean, render a former junction with the continent not improbable, . . . 289

Mr Loudon's statement, of the effect produced by pruning on the quality and quantity of the timber, that trees produce the best timber in their natural locality, not supported by facts, . . . 305

The apparent use of the infinite seedling varieties of plants, . . . 307

Advantages of laying ground under timber, stated rather too high by Mr Cruickshank, . . . ib.

Mr Cruickshank's account of the superior fertilizing influence of forest upon the soil, . . . 310

Facts which in many cases lead to an opposite conclusion, . . . 316

An examination into the causes which promote or retard the formation, or which tend to dissipate the earth's covering of vegetable mould, . . . 316

Account of an uncommon system of fallowing once practised in the Carse of Gowrie, . . . 324

High manuring quality of old clay walls, . . . 325

Formation of nitre the probable cause of the fertilizing quality of these walls, . . . ib.

The fertilizing influence of summer fallow may in part be owing to the formation of nitre and other salts, . . . ib.

That there is a deficiency of these salts in some places of the world, and an excess in others, . . . 326

Ignorance of Mr Cruickshank regarding the location of certain kinds of trees, . . . 327

Best method of transplanting seedlings in the nursery row, . . . 331

Quotation worthy the attention of planters, . . . ib.

Error of authors on the location of trees, in inculcating a determinate character of soil as generally necessary for each kind of tree, . . . 334

Further errors of Mr Cruickshank on the location of trees, . . . 335

Adaptation of Scots fir to moist soils, even to peat-moss, . . . 338

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