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ON NAVAL TIMBER.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION.
PART I. STRUCTURE OF VESSELS.
SECTION I. PLANK.
DIRECTIONS FOR TRAINING PLANK TIMBER.
SECTION II. TIMBERS.
NOTES TO PART I.
PART II.BRITISH FOREST TREES USED AS NAVAL TIMBER.
OAK—Quercus.
SPANISH CHESTNUT—Castanea vulgaris, (Fagus Castanea, L.)
BEECH-TREE—Fagus sylvatica.
ELM—Ulmus.—BROAD-LEAVED, OR SCOTCH, or WYCH ELM—Ulmus montana.
NARROW-LEAVED OR ENGLISH ELM—Ulmus campestris.
REDWOOD WILLOW, or STAG’S HEAD OZIER,—Salix fragilis13.
RED-WOOD PINE—Pinus.
WHITE LARCH—Larix communis, (L. pyramidalis).
CLASS I. SOILS AND SUBSOILS FOR LARCH.
CLASS II. SOILS AND SUBSOILS WHERE LARCH TAKES DRY ROT.
ON BENDING AND KNEEING LARCH.
NOTES TO PART II.
PART III.MISCELLANEOUS MATTER CONNECTED WITH NAVAL TIMBER.
NURSERIES.
PLANTING.
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON PRUNING.
OBSERVATIONS ON TIMBER.
CONCERNING OUR MARINE, &c.
NOTES TO PART III.
PART IV.NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER.
I. THE FORESTER’S GUIDE, by Mr Monteath.
II.—NICOL’S PLANTER’S CALENDAR.
III. BILLINGTON ON PLANTING.
IV.—FORSYTH ON FRUIT AND FOREST TREES.
V.—MR WITHERS.
VI.—STEWARDS PLANTER’S GUIDE, AND SIR WALTER SCOTT’S CRITIQUE.
VII. CRUICKSHANK’S PRACTICAL PLANTER.
NOTES TO PART IV.
APPENDIX.
NOTE A.
NOTE B.
NOTE C.
NOTE D, p. 4.
NOTE E.
NOTE F.
NOTES TO THE APPENDIX.
ERRATA.
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