Manual of Silviculture: Formation, Preservation and Treatments of Forests Tress

Silviculture literally means the culture of forests, that is to say all measures connected with the formation, preservation and treatment of forests.  In practice, however, the word forestry is used to express and comprise all this, while by silviculture, in its narrower sense, is understood the formation, regeneration and tending of forests, or woods, until they become ripe for the axe.  Silvicuture, in the latter sense, teaches how a forest, or wood, can be produced and guided to maturity so as to realize in the most advantageous manner the object, which the proprietor has in view.  The object, for which a particular forest is maintained, depends on the will the pleasure of the owner, in so far as his freedom of action is not limited by rights of third persons, or by legal enactments.