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Containing detailed Descriptions of the various Timber Crops. 



Density and 

 Canopy. 



Remarks, and Treatment proposed. 



Years. 

 25 to 35 



Incomplete ; 

 only abont one- 

 third of the area 

 being stocked. 



' The crop is self-sown, and the stock is confined only to patches 

 here and there, with open blanks between. The trees are now 

 producing seed abundantly, though the seedlings have no 

 chance of growing up on account of grazing by cattle. With- 

 out enclosure, the area cannot become self-sown ; but it is not 

 desired to enclose, as the land is specially required for sporting 

 purposes. The growth of Scots pine is fair wherever the 

 clumps form canopy. They have been recently thinned. 

 There has been a considerable tendency to branching growth, 

 owing to wide growing space for the individual trees ; but this 

 is now correcting itself, so far as possible. Canopy should 

 be carefully maintained in all compact patches, and only 

 suppressed stems thinned out. 



25 to 35 



Incomplete, even ' About 10 years ago a fire passed over the middle portion of the 

 in the patches ; i area, and did considerable damage, so that many of the young 

 and these only trees had afterwards to be cut out. The young growth of the 

 cover about one- ', last 3 years is mostly in small family groups, which should 

 half of the area. grow up well. A few oak seedlings, brought by birds, look as 

 if they were going to establish themselves. As it is not 

 intended to plant up this area, self-sowing is to be allowed 

 to continue : but blanks might advantageously be filled up 

 with Corsican pine and spruce aboiit 4 or 5 years hence, when 

 self-sowing from the neighbouring Wolmer crown forests has 

 proceeded further. 



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(planted 1867! 



Complete in parts,j Thinned j n autumn of 1896; but no shoots have sprung from 



broken in others; | the stools. In the course of the next 3 to 5 years, whenever 



very fair on the most convenient, a strong thinning should be made, and 



whole. simultaneous underplanting (or sowing, experimentally) carried 



out with Corsican pine and spruce. A few Scots pine are 



among the stock, and the best of these should be retained at 



time of thinning and underplanting. 



