The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1952. The report includes:
Introduction
Summary of the year’s work
Part i: work carried out by Forestry Commission staff
– Forest tree seed investigations
– Experimental work in nurseries
– Work on problems of afforestation in Scotland and northern England
– The 1945 broom and pine nursing experiments at Coldharbour, Wareham forest, Dorset
– Investigations in to the rehabilitation of derelict woodlands
– Experimental work on establishing hard woods in Scotland
– Chemical control of woody weed growth
– Chemical killing of trees to facilitate bark removal
– Provenance studies
– Forest ecology
– Forest genetics
– Establishment of poplars
– Studies of growth and yield
– Forest pathology
– Forest entomology
– Machinery research utilisation development
– Library and documentation
– Photography
– Publications
Part ii: research undertaken for the Forestry Commission by workers attached to universities and other institutions
– Sub-committee on nutrition problems in forest nurseries, summary report on 1951 experiments
– Effect of partial sterilisation by steam or formalin on damping-off of Sitka spruce seedlings in an old forest nursery
– Research into the physical and chemical properties of forest soils
– The influence of tree growth on soil profile development
– Growth and nutrition in heathland plantations
– Researches in soil mycology
– Morphological variations in coniferous species
– A study of the natural pinewoods of Scotland
– Soil faunal investigations
– Research on Megastigmus insects infesting conifer seed
– The nesting of tit mice in boxes
– Studies on the relationship between larch canker and Trichoscyphella willkomii