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The other ease was observed in the forest range of Hersfeld, 

 where in the 90's a fire destroyed a 10- to 15-year old pine planta- 

 tion, which had replaced a poor pine stand of 50 to 60 years of age. 

 Afterwards the five large masses of Spartium (Sarothamnus) sco- 

 'parium, hitherto unknown here, covered the burned area so that in 

 the replanting with spruce it occasioned trouble and expense. Dor- 

 mant existence of the seed for at least 60 to 70 years is supposed to 

 be the only explanation, as the seed is too heavj^ to be carried by the 

 wind, and since none, or few plants, of this species are to be found 

 in the neighborhood, the work of birds is excluded. Since the plants 

 did not appear when the old stand was removed, the need of fire to 

 start the seed seems also proved. 



Scliluvimernde Samen. Centralblatt fiir das gesammte Forstwe- 

 sen. May, 1906, p. 234. 



In a short article Forstmeister Blum points 



Theory and Practice out that, although from the instructions on 



in paper of the Bavarian forest administra- 



Regeneration. tion one would think that regeneration under 



nurse trees is general practice, actually 

 these instructions are not and cannot be followed generally. "In the 

 over-mature, dilapidated and thinned out virgin stands and remnants 

 of such stands, with soils partly covered with raw humus, partly 

 fveedy, which the Bavarian forest administration has worked for de- 

 cades and will have to work for decades, the practice has developed 

 a management which has little or nothing to do with the compartment 

 system under nurses." In such old stands, which, since they were 

 culled, have developed an undergrowth of beech, this advance 

 growth, so far as it is not worthy to be preserved, is cut out ; the bet- 

 ter are placed in position to hold out and grow into the stand. Then 

 broad strips are cleared and planted to spruce, using the beech 

 groups, if any, as filler. [A method similar to that which was adopt- 

 ed by the New York State College of Forestry. Ed.] Only in small 

 portions is the natural regeneration practiced; in large areas it re- 

 quires too much assistance by planting. The larger part of the yoimg 

 growths of the last decades has its origin in artificial plantations. 

 "In spite of the most beautiful termini technici this management can 

 hardly be called natural regeneration." 



Aus der Theorie und Praxis des Femelsclagbetriebes. Allgemeine 

 Forst- und Jagdzeitung. May, 19O6, pp. 149-151. 



