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some tiuiLer had been blowu down, or where, by some 

 other means, the surface of the gTound had been broken, 

 and a suitable bed been formed for the seed to lodae in. 

 Many practical arborists can also testify to the partial or 

 complete failure of certain kuids of plants when used for 

 forming a second crop, and if such testimonies were fully 

 recorded more coidd testify of the latter fact than of the 

 former, and, I may state, that if such authors lived to see 

 their plantations after being thirty years planted, they 

 would also corroborate the latter class of arborists. 



Q. 15. Why do you think so ? — Because, as I have formerly 

 stated, not only the beetle, but the fungoids also, must 

 overrun the greater part of the gTound — and larch being 

 very liable to be injured by the latter, while Scotch and 

 spruce firs are more or less so, any person ha\dng replanted, 

 either at three, five, or eight years after the former crop 

 had been cleared, must have seen a very considerable 

 amount of injury done to those plantations by the fungus 

 at some stage of their growth, depending cliiefly upon the 

 different classes of soil, as well as the porous or retentive 

 nature of the same. But I consider it absolutely certain 

 that in course of thirty, if not at twenty -fi\'e years, it 

 would have overrun the whole of the plantation ; and, I 

 again repeat, if the kinds selected have been entirely the 

 same, the planter would not find entire satisfaction in 

 seemg his plantations after that date. I have seen partial 

 failures where replanting had been done immediately, as 

 well as at various dates after the former crop had been 

 cleared, and notably in one about tliirty years planted, 

 which had been formed eight years after the former crop 

 had been cleared. The soil was a porous one, various 

 portions had failed at various dates, but at this age it was 

 deemed advisable to efiect a total clearance of the larch, 

 as scarcely a sound tree could be found in the plantation, 

 though the Scotch fir had grown to a fair proportion, and 

 continued to show a healthy and vigorous appearance. 



Q. 16. Then, according to your statements, a very great amount 

 of risk is run by proprietors in attempting the replanting 

 of woodlands with the same kind of trees, particidarly 

 larch ? — A. A very great amount of risk indeed. 



Q. 17. But you do not consider any other kind of fir so liable 

 to injury by fungus as the larch ? — A. I have not found 

 any other so liable in my exjjerience, though I have seen 

 both the Scotch and spruce suffer considerably, and never 

 the silver fir at all — by fungus — nor by the beetle either. 



Q. 18. Then what kinds or system of replanting would you 

 adopt where a mixed croj) of the above mentioned kinds 



