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the aspect, often northerly and away from 

 the sun, especially where conifers are 

 concerned. He would have a mixed 

 crop of the timber trees best suited to 

 the district, arranged on an 80 or 100 

 years rotation, so that each year should 

 furnish its quota of matured timber for 

 the woodman's axe and the saw-mill, the 

 annual fall being made good by corre- 

 sponding area of new planting, so that — 

 once the system is in working order — 

 the cycle of one century shall follow 

 another in unbroken succession. Time 

 counts for little in the forester's plans, 

 two generations of short-lived humans 

 shall have reached their allotted span ere 

 his work shall see fruition ; he labours for 

 generations yet unborn. His system once 

 established, little more than one sixth 

 of his woods — the young plantations of 

 the last fifteen years — would be of any 

 value to the game-preserver. 



Over all the main portion of the 

 planted area the trees — thickly planted 

 and sparingly thinned, forced to thrust 



