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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Trees and weeds
    Lead Author: R.J. Davies
    Landscaped sites are often seeded with vigorous varieties ot grass and legume species, which, while reducing soil erosion and giving an attractive green appearance, may kill young trees or check their growth. Weeds compete with trees for moisture, nutrients and light; but they can also interfere by releasing toxins, modifying soil and air temperatures, and […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forest insects
    Lead Author: D. Bevan
    The expansion in forestry planting since the end of the first world war has provided foresters in Britain with a great deal of fresh knowledge about the particular insect problems associated with these new habitats in different phases of crop life. Most of the 280 species described here are common subjects of enquiry, although some […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Rhododendron ponticum as a forest weed
    Lead Author: P.M. Tabbush
    Rhododendron ponticum is an evergreen shrub which forms dense thickets up to 5 metres in height. The large purple blooms appear in spring and are an attractive sight which has become commonplace especially on forested slopes in the west of the British Isles. Foresters are familiar with it as a most intractable weed, indeed control […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Population biology and control of the pine beauty moth
    Lead Author: S.R. Leather
    This Bulletin presents the papers which were given at a workshop held at the end of 1984 to bring together a wide range of researchers, within and outwith the Forestry Commission, working on problems presented by the new and sudden occurrence in the late 1970s of large scale and severe outbreaks of the Pine beauty […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Beech bark disease
    Lead Author: D. Lonsdale
    Beech bark disease is considered to be the most serious disease affecting British beech, although its severity varies geographically and temporally. Early records indicate that the disease was first observed at least 150 years ago, but must certainly have been affecting trees from a much earlier date. The insect and fungus both occur over much […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] The use of herbicides in the forest (2nd edition)
    Lead Author: J.S.P. Sale
    This is the first revision of the original 1983 edition of this Booklet and incorporates recent developments in herbicides, equipment and methods of application.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Research on Dutch elm disease in Europe
    Lead Author: D.A. Burdekin (Ed)
    This Bulletin contains the proceedings of the European Economic Community Research Seminar, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 30th March — 1st April 1982. The papers summarise the results of recent research undertaken by scientists from six members of the European Community.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] A catalogue of phytophagous insects and mites on trees in Great Britain
    Lead Author: T.G. Winter
    The main objective of this catalogue is to bring some uniformity into exchanges concerning forest entomology. It consists of three lists: a basic one and two supplementary. The basic list includes all species in Pests and diseases of forest plantation trees (F G Brown, 1968) occurring in Britain, to which have been added many others […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] The use of chemicals (other than herbicides) in forest and nursery
    Lead Author: O.N. Blatchford
    This is the first Booklet dedicated to chemicals other than herbicides used in forestry. It is suggested that this publication is kept with its companion volume The use of herbicides in the forest (Booklet 51) to give a comprehensive reference to the use of all chemicals in the forest. Although produced primarily for internal use […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Decay fungi in conifers (FC Leaflet 79 – 1981)

     This Leaflet is a guide to the identification of decays in conifers for both foresters and arboriculturists.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Aerial application of insecticide against pine beauty moth
    Lead Author: A.V. Holden (Ed.)
    During 1979, further spraying operations of Lodgepole pine forests in northern Scotland with fenitrothion, to control outbreaks of Pine beauty moth were necessary using the ultra-low volume technique, and monitoring operations were undertaken partly to confirm the observations of the previous year, but also, in some instances, to provide additional information on the extent of […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Grey squirrel control (FC Leaflet 56 – 1980 (2ed))

     This leaflet discusses options for controlling grey squirrels.