- a variation of silviculture.
sylviculture
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In England, however, arboriculture, the planting and nursing of single trees, has, until comparatively recent times, been better understood than sylviculture, the sowing and training of the forest.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
The principal feature of De Courval's very successful system of sylviculture, is a mode of trimming which compels the tree to develop the stem by reducing the lateral ramification.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
The experiments of the Vicomte de Courval in sylviculture throw much light on this subject, and show, in a most interesting way, the importance of pruning forest-trees.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
In fact, England is, I believe, the only European country where private enterprise has pursued sylviculture on a really great scale, though admirable examples have been set in many others.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
The prairies have never been wooded, so far as we know their history, and it has been contended that successful sylviculture would be impracticable in those regions from the want of rain.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
