Webster, Angus D. 1855-1931 creator text utu 2025 Fifth edition, enlarged and revised monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Webster''s practical forestry : A popular handbook on the rearing and growth of…." by A. D. Webster is a practical forestry handbook written in the early 20th century. It focuses on profitable and ornamental tree growing in Britain, blending policy advocacy with step-by-step guidance for establishing nurseries, plantations, and timber production. The work emphasizes species choice, site preparation, and cultivation methods aimed at both commercial returns and landscape value. The opening of the handbook frames forestry as a wartime and postwar necessity, arguing that foreign timber shortages demand large-scale, state-led afforestation of waste lands, with compact blocks to ensure continuous supply and to justify transport, and proposing this work as employment for returning and convalescent service members. It outlines costs, suitable regions, and the economic case for government ownership and planning. The text then turns practical, explaining how to collect, dry, store, and sow seeds (especially conifer cones), offering seed counts and species-by-species timing; how to propagate by seed, cuttings, layers, grafts, and buds; and how to plan and run a home nursery with seasonal tasks. Next it details forming plantations: setting boundaries, laying out roads and fences, draining and levelling, clearing vegetation, pitting vs. notch planting, timing by site conditions, and avoiding too-deep planting. Finally, it begins its list of the best economic trees, describing growth conditions, timber qualities, and uses for oak, ash, beech, sycamore, Spanish chestnut, elm, alder, birch, and the cricket-bat willow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-09-15 Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1917 Trees -- Great Britain Forests and forestry -- Great Britain SD London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1917 https://archive.org/details/websterspractica00websrich/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76876 https://archive.org/details/websterspractica00websrich/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76876 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134759.0 76876