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with about 10 per cent of beech in mixture. Two-year-old seedlings 

 were planted by notching at from 3^ to 4 foot intervals. The cost 

 was £Ci per acre. Replanting failed places cost 10s. per acre. Since 

 then other areas have been converted into coniferous stands wherein 

 Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, Japanese larch, and Corsican pine have been 

 used in considerable quantities. 



The object of the above competition is to encourage good forestry^. 

 It shows the intense interest Great Britain is now taking in forestry 

 and the realization of the need for growing first-class crops of timber 

 rather than the indifferent stands so prevalent in pre-war times. 



J. W. T. 



Bennett, W. H., and Long, A. P. : Report on Plantations Competition, Quar- 

 terly Journal of Forestry, Vol. XIII, pp. 221-253, October, 1919. 



