- a variation of silviculture.
sylviculture
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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 George P. Marsh
In England, however, arboriculture, the planting and nursing of single trees, has, until recently, been better understood than sylviculture, the sowing and training of the forest.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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 George P. Marsh
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 George P. Marsh
All the treatises on sylviculture are full of narratives of forest fires.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
