I08 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



are also made in the growing woods of each section. Consider- 

 able difficulty is experienced in securing natural regeneration, 

 owing to the large number of deer and rabbits. 



There are two sections, comprising 2027 acres, treated as 

 coppice-with-standards, the rotation of the underwood being 

 thirty-five years. 



One working-section (1753 acres), that of Beaux Monts, is 

 treated as a picturesque forest {Serie artistique). 



LD OAKS — COMPlfeGNE. 



The rotation of the high forest is 150 years, the annual 

 fellings of mature trees in it producing 992,915 cubic feet, or 27 

 cubic feet per acre. To this should be added about 700,000 

 cubic feet, the yield of the thinnings, which are made every ten 

 years in the growing woods, so that the total annual yield is 46 

 cubic feet per acre. The thinnings are chiefly made to protect 

 oak from being overgrown by inferior species, and extend over 

 3000 acres annually. 



This forest was, up to 1870, managed under a clear-cutting 



