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[Archive] Voles and field mice (FC Leaflet 44 – 1958)
This Leaflet provides information on three species: the short tailed vole, the bank vole and the long tailed field mouse.
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[Archive] Keithia disease of thuja plicata (FC Leaflet 43 – 1958)
This is the original leaflet first printed in 1958 which describes the history of the fungus and disease symptoms but does not show the revised data in reprint from 1963.
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[Archive] The pine shoot moth (FC Leaflet 40 – 1956)
This leaflet on the pine shoot moth describes the main features of the life cycles and forest importance of these four species, the pine shoot moth, the pine bud moth, the resin-gall moth and the pine leaf-mining moth
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[Archive] Adelges insects of silver firs

Lead Author: Issac William Varty
Insects of the genus Adelges have long been recognised as economically important pests of the valuable timber-producing silver fir trees that comprise the genus Abies. In fact the planting of the common European silver fir, Abies alba, has had to be greatly restricted in Britain because of the depredations of these insects. This Bulletin gives […]
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[Archive] Rusts of British forest trees

Lead Author: J.S. Murray
The rust fungi or Uredinales are an important group of plant parasites, causing great losses to agricultural and forest crops each year. The life cycle of a typical rust is complex, as live types of spores are produced on two different and unrelated hosts, certain of the spore types being always borne on one host […]
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[Archive] Chestnut blight

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
In Britain, the sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa, is at the northern limit of its distribution, and as a forest tree it is of importance in the southern half of England only. So far, in Britain, it has not been seriously affected by disease, however, it is a serious matter that Chestnut Blight, which has ravaged […]
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[Archive] Spring frosts (2nd edition)

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
This Bulletin provides an update to the original bulletin from 1937. Spring frosts add considerably to the difficulties of establishing young plantations. Investigations which the Imperial Forestry Institute had been carrying out for the Forestry Commission since 1929 were already yielding interesting results when the great May frosts of 1935 occurred.
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[Archive] Spring frosts

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
Investigations which the Imperial Forestry Institute had been carrying out for the Forestry Commission since 1929 were already yielding interesting results when the great May frosts of 1935 occurred.
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[Archive] Studies on the pine shoot moth (Evetria buoliana Schiff.)

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
Part 1 of this Bulletin brings together all the manuscripts dealing with studies on the biology and forest relations of the pine shoot moth, Evetria buoliana Schiff. Further data have been collected on the distribution of the moth in East Anglia and on the results of recent experimental control studies, which are given in Part […]
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[Archive] Forestry Practice 1933

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
A summary of methods of establishing forest nurseries and plantations with advice on other forestry questions for owners and agents.
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[Archive] Studies on tree roots

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
This bulletin contains an account of investigations on the roots of young trees carried out over a series of years for the Forestry Commission by Dr. E. V. Laing of the Department of Forestry, Aberdeen University. Special attention has been paid to the association of fungi (mycorrhiza) with roots and to the development and action […]
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[Archive] Nursery investigations

Lead Author: H. M. Steven
This Bulletin discusses the importance of nursery practice and the current methods employed. Only coniferous species are dealt with; broadleaved trees occupy a relatively small area in the new plantations. The bulletin shows that important improvements can be obtained by attention to tilth conditions (largely governed by the time of sowing), by treatment of the […]

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