sylviculture

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The experiments of the Vicomte de Courval in sylviculture throw much light on this subject, and show, in a most interesting way, the importance of pruning forest-trees.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

Other experiments in sylviculture at different points on the steppes promise valuable results.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

England, forest economy of, 221; large extent of ornamental plantations, 222; Forests of, described by Cæsar, 222; private enterprise in sylviculture, 292; sand dunes of, 507.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

All the treatises on sylviculture are full of narratives of forest fires.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

In England, however, arboriculture, the planting and nursing of single trees, has, until comparatively recent times, been better understood than sylviculture, the sowing and training of the forest.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.