Abstract
PROF. EDWARD G. CHEYNEY has written in this volume a very useful and comprehensive compilation on the American aspects of the sylviculture of some hundred and fifty commercially important forest species. His book is said to be— arid many will agree—the first attempt at treating this branch of forestry in America from the fully practical side. Sylviculture, he explains, has been developed in Europe as an art through centuries of experience with European species of trees. “Out of that experience has come a series of silvicultural patterns that can be useful in America when we have learned to adapt and apply them to our own species. In themselves the patterns mean but little. To use them we must have knowledge of the factors that influence the growth of trees in competition with each other, of the types in which American species group themselves, and of the silvical characteristics of our more important species.” It has been the aim of the author to deal as fully as present information permits with his definition, and his book discloses how admirably he has carried out his object.
American Silvics and Silviculture
By Prof. Edward G. Cheyney. Pp. x + 472. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1942.) 30s. net.
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STEBBING, E. American Silvics and Silviculture. Nature 154, 445 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154445a0
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