Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The culture of forest-trees; arboriculture; forestry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
silviculture .
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Examples
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Helsingfors where his father opened a firm dealing with sylviculture and forest produce and the son became a pupil of the
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In this point of view, sylviculture must follow the same laws as agriculture, and, like it, be modified according to the economical conditions of different states.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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There is probably not a single district in Russia which has not to deplore the ravages of man or of fire, those two great enemies of Muscovite sylviculture.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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Other experiments in sylviculture at different points on the steppes promise valuable results.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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A full discussion of the methods of sylviculture would, indeed, be out of place in a work like the present, but the want of conveniently accessible means of information on the subject, in the United States, will justify me in presenting it with somewhat more of detail than would otherwise be pertinent.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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All the treatises on sylviculture are full of narratives of forest fires.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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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.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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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.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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The art, or, as the Continental foresters rather ambitiously call it, the science of sylviculture has been so little pursued in England and America, that its nomenclature has not been introduced into the English vocabulary, and it would not be possible to describe its processes with technical propriety of language, without occasionally borrowing a word from the forest literature of France and Germany.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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The legislation of European states upon sylviculture, and the practice of that art, divide themselves into two great branches -- the preservation of existing forests, and the creation of new.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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