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(b) "Where the cover -was light enough, and the natural growth 



of beech insufficient or absent, to under-plant with 

 spruce. 



(c) To plant larches here and there amongst the natural 



growth of beech, and amongst the young spruce in the 

 more open parts. 



(d) To defer for a time the regeneration of the denser parts of 



the crop. 



The result of this treatment will be a mixed crop of beech and 

 spruce, arranged in gi-oups, with some larch scattered throughout 

 them . 



Fange d'Estang. 



Swampy ground, with a thin young coppice of birch, oak, and 

 other species. The ground had been planted up with spruce at 

 3 feet 3 inch intervals; the plants were looking yellow, and 

 many of them were making but little progress, especially in the 

 wetter places. But on the little bank made by soil thrown out 

 of the ditches, they were doing well. A good plan might have 

 been to make small ditches and ridges at 8 or 10 feet apart, and 

 to plant spruce on the ridges. The intervals between the lines 

 thus formed might have been stocked with birch, which, how- 

 ever, grows spontaneously in places. 



A little farther on we entered a thin forest of beech poles 

 under-planted with spruce, a few oaks being seen in the thinner 

 parts. 



La Hure du Chapeau. 



A forest situated on an open, sunny, southern slope, the soil 

 being thin, dry, and stony, with a covering of short grass and 

 herbs from 6 to 12 inches high. The ground was to be sown 

 with Scots pine, in accordance with an old local practice, as 

 follows : — 



The denser parts of the herbage to be burned off, and the seed 

 to be sown broad-cast without further preparation of the soil. 

 Shallow trenches, from 3 to 4 inches deep, to be then dug with 

 pick and shovel at 6£ feet intervals, the sods and soil being 

 scattered between the trenches. This soil, together with that 

 knocked out of the sods, falling through the herbage, was to 

 afford a light covering to the seed. 



