178 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
be improved upon without introducing violent changes, which 
estate proprietors would be little inclined to sanction on their 
estates. If an experimental area can accomplish this much, it 
will at least justify its existence, and, with a fair measure of 
success, ought to form the nucleus of a system of similar areas 
throughout Britain that would eventually bring British forestry 
nearer to the desired condition, if it did not reach as high a 
standard of perfection as that practised on scientific methods in 
other countries. 
