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, ...
