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THE FORESTS OF EUROPE. 



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the forests owned by the state are planted with high trees, and com- 

 munes only have 31 per cent, of their forest superficies so planted. 

 The proportion of land covered with high trees to coppice woods is, 

 for other countries, as follows : — 



A forest composed of high trees supplies two kinds of product 

 very distinct from each other, both by their value and the nature of 

 the services they render — viz. firewood and woods fit for industrial 

 purposes ; the latter being the most valuable. In France, timber 

 does not attain 20 per cent, of the general produce, nearly 81 per 

 cent, of that produce is only good for firewood, while this proportion 

 is in — 



COUNTRIES. PER CENT. 



Prussia, 



!^'> 



Bavaria, 



Wurtember; 



Baden, . 



Bohemia, 



Saxony, 



Hanover, 



Zurich, 



6'o 

 25 

 21 

 44 

 29 

 37 



France has only 99 square rods of woodland per inhabitant, 

 while the average is in Eussia, 135 square rods ; in Bavaria, 1 8 5 

 square rods; Wurtemberg, 138 square rods; Baden, 143 square 

 rods ; Austria-Hungary, 202 square rods. In France the importa- 

 tion of wood in 1830 amounted to £859,000, it now amounts to 

 £10,730,000, an increase of £9,871,000 in fifty years. The 

 exports for the same period only increased by £1,278,000. Some 

 years ago the occupation of Algeria brought to the French nation 

 nearly 7,000,000 acres of really valuable forests, and two-tliirds of 

 these forests belong to the State. They are planted as follows : — 



Cedar trees, . 

 Aleppo pines, 

 Evergreen oaks, 

 Cork trees. 



ACRES. 



190,163 

 1,901,308 

 1,337,905 



988,456 



