[ad. F. sylvi-, silviculture, f. L. sylva, silva a wood + F. culture cultivation.] The cultivation of woods or forests; the growing and tending of trees as a department of forestry.
1880. Nature, 5 Feb., 330/1. A recent instructive experiment in sylviculture.
1893. M. G. Watkins in Academy, 15 July, 55/2. Sylviculture … means the culture of timber for profit, as opposed to arboriculture, or the growing of beautiful specimen trees in park and garden.
Hence Sylvicultural a., belonging or relating to sylviculture (whence Sylviculturally adv.); Sylviculturist, a person engaged or skilled in sylviculture.
1889. Nature, 12 Dec., 122/2. *Sylvicultural systems—that is different methods under which the creation, regeneration, tending, and utilization of woods are effected.
1893. Nisbet (title), British Forest Trees and their Sylvicultural Characteristics and Treatment.
1903. Board Agric. Leaflet, No. 91. 4. It is to the action of the beetle that the chief silvicultural damage is due.
1903. Forestry Quart., Nov., 36 (Cent. Dict., Suppl.). *Silviculturally of interest is the note that in a spruce stand undergrown with beech no beetles were found, although a neighboring stand was greatly damaged.
1887. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept., 636. A French *sylviculturist has devised a method of clothing the stripped oak-trees.
