The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff.
This twentieth Journal includes information on:
- Imported seed; Laboratory germination tests for forest tree seed;
- Breeding forest trees;
- The elite tree;
- A device for collecting cones;
- The storage of beech mast and acorns (silvicultural circular No. 25);
- Nursery practice (silvicultural circular No. 21);
- Manuring of nurseries (silvicultural circular No.23);
- Nursery practice (silvicultural circular No.26);
- Soil sampling in forest nurseries (appendix to silvicultural circular No.26);
- The treatment of nursery soils;
- Acidification at Barcaldine Nursery;
- Nursery sowing programmes and yields;
- Selective weed killers in conifer seedbeds and transplant lines;
- Robinia pseudoacacia;
- Three provenances of maritime pine in the nursery;
- Recovery of frosted Sitka spruce seedlings;
- A note on Australian forestry;
- The census of woodlands— some impressions;
- Notes on the state forests in Lincolnshire;
- Some observations on the Halwill Moors, Devonshire;
- The Black Wood of Rannoch;
- Millbuie Forest— Black Isle;
- Cwmogwr Forest;
- Selection of species at Radnor Forest;
- The high elevation experiment at Beddgelert Forest;
- Forestry and amenity;
- Natural regeneration;
- Recent direct sowing experiments on the Yorkshire Heathlands;
- Vegetational changes following the afforestation of Calluna Heaths in Yorkshire;
- Mechanical draining for afforestation;
- Hints on fencing;
- Protection of forest fences by tarring of netting;
- Ploughing plans;
- Planting bags;
- The suppression of coppice by weeding;
- The treatment of a sheep-damaged oak plantation at Nagshead—Forest of Dean;
- The brashing and thinning of spruces and Douglas fir;
- Recording of thinning yields in plantations (silvicultural circular No.22);
- Average yields from thinnings;
- Estimation of volume of main crop from thinnings in one-tenth acre plots;
- Crown thinning;
- The use of stand density indices for describing thinnings;
- O tempora! O mores!;
- Treatment of Scots pine plantations in the Black Isle;
- Larch plantations at Glentress Forest;
- Rapid growth of Japanese larch in Cornwall;
- What is hybrid larch?;
- Height and girth assessment of the parents of the Dunkeld hybrid larch;
- Observations on ice-dam aged Douglas fir at Kerry forest;
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides;
- A rough-barked beech; Highland birch;
- Three fine specimens of oak in the Forest of Dean;
- The walnut;
- Distribution of the moss Thuidium tamariscinum in British hardwood stands;
- The great fire of Hattlich-Eupen, September 1947;
- The Chirdon fire;
- Railway fires and preventive measures;
- Prevention of fires caused by Commission employees (Director General’s circular);
- Fire brooms;
- Grey squirrels at Savernake;
- Vole damage in the Border forests;
- A keeper’s day; Vermin trouble;
- Forest ornithological research in Britain;
- Ips sexdentatus, an insect pest attacking pine plantations (silvicultural circular No.24);
- Notes on the die-back of European larch;
- Coryneum canker of cypress;
- Dying of groups of Sitka spruce;
- Bark stripping in the Forest of Dean;
- The need for care when felling timber;
- Dragging poles;
- Notes on the weight and volume of green wood of Scots and Corsican pines (note from Forest Products Research Laboratory);
- The mechanisation of forest road construction in Scotland;
- Forest roads and extraction costs;
- Preservation of existing natural protection for old houses;
- The use of aerial photographs on census work;
- Some observations on forest maps and records;
- The international union of forest research organisations;
- European Commission on forestry and forest products, Geneva, July 1948;
- Organisation and methods at conservancy level;
- Permanent instructions;
- The estate section;
- Filing of proof slips;
- The staff suggestion scheme (secretary’s circular);
- Sources of information;
- Amateur photography in forestry;
- Touring in Indian forests;
- New forest common rights;
- History of Blengdale, Wormgill and Calder;
- Woodman, square that tree!.