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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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    [Archive] Beetles injurious to timber

    Lead Author: J.W. Munro
    This Bulletin discusses beetles which attack timber. They belong to various families of the order Coleoptera of which four groups may be recognised – longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), pin-hole borers (Scolytidae and Platypodidae), powder-post beetles (Bostrychidae and Lyctidae) and furniture beetles (Anobiidae). The objective of this bulletin is to describe the insects and the damage done […]
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    [Archive] British bark beetles

    Lead Author: J.W. Munro
    This Bulletin deals with bark-beetles, a group of insects which is closely connected with forestry practice. It is the outcome of several years’ work and of first-hand study of the beetles both in the laboratory and in the field. The purpose of the Bulletin is to give an account of those bark-beetles which occur in […]
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    [Archive] The silver fir chermes

    Lead Author: R. Neil Chrystal
    This Bulletin provides information on the life-cycle of the silver fir chermes in Britain, as well as information on the relationship between the insect and its host tree, the silver fir, to ascertain how far the chermes was responsible for the death of the tree. The Bulletin also presents certain information collected by the author […]