sylviculture

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In fact, England is, I believe, the only European country where private enterprise has pursued sylviculture on a really great scale, though admirable examples have been set in many others.

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

The principal feature of De Courval's very successful system of sylviculture, is a mode of trimming which compels the tree to develop the stem by reducing the lateral ramification.

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

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

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography 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.