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These plantations did at first very well, so that very promising 

 results were expected. At the age of ten to twelve vears, how- 

 ever, the trees began to fall off, and now it is clear that the whole 

 must be put down as a failure. The Oaks have mostly disappeared, 

 and those which still exist are miserable specimens of the species, 

 liie bpruce also has done very badly. The Scotcli Pine suffers 

 • Ireadfully from the leaf-shedding disease, and from the attacks of 

 ""; {I^^fmia huoltana) ; in a few places it has done better, 



done fairly well, but it had a very bushy appearance. Weymouth 

 fhTl ' "P ?• ^''^^^. ^^ ^^^^^'^ 5'^^^^' d°^^ b^tt*^^ tlian any of 

 mt^ T^Tl '^''''''^ P'""^'- ^^'* ^^ ^" ^^d' ^« doubt, done 

 i^irch. i tat tree was at first cut away, because it threatened to 

 ntertere with the other species ; now it is being sown in strips, 

 i'> replace tnem, where they have failed. 



inspection of the Augusiendorfer bog is, that 

 ,fi,... "— "' - ring is not practicable on 



The ^ ^_ ^ 



profitable forestry Without artificial 



BURGSITTENSEN BOG. 



M^fihitS \^^"*^d ^^^^. ^^g' ^here I was told plantations have been 

 been dr^fnlr^Tr?^ ^?*^' ^^ bog-land. Here the land had 

 .v^re fhT^l ^' '^'*'^'; ^?""^ ^"^* ^P^^t' «nd the species grown 

 .Jwvnm ,! J ^^ ""^ S^ Augusteudorfer bog. The depth of bog 

 lan from perhaps eighteen inches to several feet I went care- 

 tu y through the plantations which run up to an ag^ of about 

 h tirrSor ^ TV '^' ^•^-^^l^^ion th^at success°depends in 

 more than^r Ai*^'" ^Z^*^ °^ *^^ ^^g- Wherever it was not 

 Se deSi« In *Vr ^''> *^" plantations did well ; as soon as 



off at ^nnl P?'"^ ^'^^"^ ^ ^^^^' ^^^ growth of the trees fell 

 ctuld be niokS'^fV^'**' ^^^P*^ °^ four-and-a-half or five feet 

 the trees ^ Tht ?* ^* ^/^^^'" ^^ *h« ^^f^^i^^ development of 

 learned on this tour''°''' '^ ^^""^ important lesson, which I 



nprnce Of Larch, not much was seen here 



woTded :-'"''"" '" ^ '''"™'' "■»» '"e above notes may be th»8 

 be*'carrt'dtn"?;lir''."'"'S''f "'"S-landB profitable forestry can 

 feet iVnlPfl« «Lv. 1 ^ ■ ^^^h ■^ d^P^li of bog of about three 



