WOODS OF Tin-. NOVAK LSI Ai B. 



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ol death vacancies) has now bo be done, the young woods where 

 the stock i.s most defective being the following, viz. : — 



Area in which 



Total, 



928 



Vacancies, to an important extent, do not exist on this entire 

 area, but the ground has all to be gone over. Many of these young 



(VOOds have now passed the age at which deficiencies might be 

 made good by putting in plants of the original species. In some 

 cases, as for instance in parts of Cnoc-an-Eiliknaidh, Toll Belt 

 and Dail Qheal, the stock might now be made good with ilvo 

 fir (if its healthy growth could be relied on) or with beech, both of 

 which stand shade well; or with Douglas fir, which, though it stands 

 less shade, grows faster in youth ; and this would to some extent 

 mend matters; but if not completed, these crops will suffer through 

 out life from their too open condition in youth. In the more recently 

 planted of the young Scots fir and larch crops, it will be possible to 

 fill a portion of the vacancies with the original species; but where 

 deaths have been caused by brackens or other coarse growth, a 

 shade-bearer should be substituted for Scots fix or larch. The 

 of this work will be heavy) and this circumstance, so far as failures 

 may be attributable to the system adopted in planting, must be .^et 

 against the advantage of a small initial outlay. 



