This seminal work in three volumes deals with the trees of India from a silvicultural point of view. In a vast country like India, with an infinite variety of climates and forest types and a rich array of tree species, silvicultural research is imperative to forest management. This book is the outcome of several years of research into silvicultural issues, combined with observations recorded in many parts of India and Burma for a period of more than twenty years. ...
When planning this book the authors was greatly helped by the official opinions of forest departments and many individual suggestions. They covered a wide range of needs and specified at least a manual of pests and control methods for the divisional officer and his staff, a textbook for lecturers and student at the forest colleges, as well as a work of reference for research officers and entomologists; moreover the book should be portable. In the volumes 1 and 2 ...
In preparing this book every endeavour has been made to elucidate principles by giving a sufficiency of actual examples, while avoiding a superfluity of local detail which might tend to confuse the reader. The plan has therefore been followed of explaining the systems on general lines and giving only a few local examples to illustrate important or special points. The historical information given is necessarily brief, but it may prove of interest in ...