Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Science and Teaching of Forestry: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, July 7th, 1882
John Evelyn, in the reign Of Charles II., roused Englishmen to a sense of the value of their timber trees.
The Sussex iron-works in little more than a century almost cleared the forests of the Weald; a similar demand for charcoal caused great destruc tion in the forest of Dean; the value of agricultural land, enhanced by the Corn Laws, no doubt led to much clearing of woodlands and in many of the remaining forest districts the unrestricted rights of pasturage, and of topping and Iopping prevented the proper growth Of mature timber.
The forests of other countries have had a similar history, and it is from their experiences that I wish to demonstrate my first point, the national importance of scientific forestry.
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