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  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Timber! Your growing investment
    Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin
    This Booklet contains a short account of the Commission’s achievements in the last fifty years, from 1919 until 1969.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Metric guide for forestry
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This guide outlines proposals for the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in British forestry and has been approved by the Forestry Commission and the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee as a basis for more detailed planning by the individual sectors of the industry.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forestry in the British Scene
    Lead Author: R.F. Wood
    The sole purpose of this Booklet is to depict forestry under a wide range of conditions in Britain. The text and the captions to the photographs are kept to the shortest length necessary to offer an explanation of the diversity of forest scenery. No attempt has been made to classify land in any ordered scheme; […]
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    [Archive] Know your broadleaves
    Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin
    All broadleaved trees belong to the great natural order of plants called the Dicotyledones, which are distinguished by having two seed-leaves or cotyledons in every seed. There are numerous families of these plants, many of which include both trees and smaller plants. Each family is defined, in a rather complicated way, on the basis of […]
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    [Archive] Thinning control in British woodlands
    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
    Thinning control in British woodlands
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    [Archive] Rooting and stability in Sitka spruce
    Lead Author: A.I. Fraser
    The primary object of the investigations presented in this Bulletin has been to compare the tree’s ability to withstand wind forces when grown under various conditions. The only part of the root system measured is the portion which comes out of the ground when the tree is pulled over.
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    [Archive] Forest management tables
    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
    The tables in this publication have been prepared with the object of providing a basis for the management of Forestry Commission plantations but they are equally applicable to any plantations which are managed primarily for profit. The Revised Yield Tables for Conifers in Great Britain published in 1953 (Forest Record Number 24) and all previous […]
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    [Archive] The plan of operations
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This booklet has been prepared primarily for the guidance of landowners who have already brought, or who wish to bring, their woodlands into the Dedication or the Approved Woodland Schemes of the Forestry Commission. It contains information on the preparation of the plan and map and on management and record keeping.
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    [Archive] Know your conifers
    Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin
    Conifers, or softwood trees, form a distinct group which has become very important in the world’s economy because they grow fast on poor soils even under harsh climates, and yield timbers that are very suitable for industry. They are now being planted and tended on a growing scale in most countries as a source of […]
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    [Archive] Experiments on nutrition problems in forest nurseries – Volume 2 (supporting tables)
    Lead Author: Blanche Benzian
    This second volume of information related to experiments on nursery nutrition contains a full statement of the detailed results for each individual experiment discussed in volume 1. The detailed tabular statements are grouped into several parts: A. General, B. Seedbeds, C. Transplants, Appendix and Supplementary Tables.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Experiments on nutrition problems in forest nurseries – Volume 1
    Lead Author: Blanche Benzian
    This Bulletin is an account of the nursery experimental work on nutrition carried out between 1945 and 1962 by a joint research effort between staff of the Rothamsted Experimental Station and the Research Branch of the Forestry Commission.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Principal butt rots of conifers
    Lead Author: R.J. Gladman
    This booklet is planned as a forester’s guide to the recognition of the three most common and damaging decays of standing conifers in Great Britain. The fungi that cause these rots are the basidiomycetes Heterobasidion annosum (formerly known as Fomes annosus), Armillaria mellea, and Polyporus schweinitzii. They are primary root rotting organisms, infection usually beginning in the […]