The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1949. The report includes:
Part 1: Work carried out by Forestry Commission staff:
Introduction
Studies of growth
Pathology
Entomology
Genetics
Forest ecology
The treatment of seed
Experimental work in the nursery
Afforestation of peat
Planting experiments on lowland heaths
Provenance studies
Arboreta and forest gardens
The library at Alice Holt
Publications
Part 2: Committee on nutrition problems in forest nurseries
Part 3: Research undertaken for the Forestry Commission by workers attached to universities and other institutions:
Introduction
Soil faunal investigations
Research into the physical and chemical properties of forest soils
Forest soil investigations in Scotland
Researches in soil mycology
Investigations on fomes annosus attacks in East Anglian pine plantations
Botanical studies on tree races
Forest ornithological investigations