MR H, C, HILL ON THE FOREST OF DEAN. 295 
Woods after his proposals have had full effect:— ‘In the 
‘coppice-with-standards’ working circles the underwood will be 
found massed together in similar aged groups, its composition 
being improved by planting, and the substitution of timber- 
growing species for hazel. The overwood will have been cleared 
of old branching trees past their prime, and in their places should 
be a more regularly distributed reserve of standards of younger 
age and more promising appearance. 
“Tn the area under high forest will be found a complete wood 
of oak, ash, larch, and beech, aged from fifty to sixty years, 
surmounted by a valuable reserve of old well-grown oaks, one 
hundred and sixty to two hundred years old. Its regeneration 
and replacement by seedling oaks and beeches will probably be 
possible within the ensuing thirty years.” 
He gives a tabulated statement showing the fellings and inter- 
mediate cuttings to be undertaken during the first period of 
thirty-five years. He then offers suggestions regarding sowing 
and planting, the forest staff, and other matters; and he con- 
eludes his report with an estimate of the financial results of his 
proposals, and with the prescription of Control Books for the 
record of yearly work in each of the working circles. Detailed 
descriptions of the various blocks of forest are contained in an 
appendix. 
Report ON THE Forest OF DEAN, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR 
its MANAGEMENT. 
After giving a general description of the forest, the author 
states that the main crop consists of oaks raised in plantations, 
over 10,833 acres of which the age of the trees ranges from 
eighty-one to eighty-eight years. Generally speaking, the oak 
forms a pure crop, but some other species are met with, The 
whole of the woods of the above age are said to be very open; 
they have all been more or less heavily thinned, and they are 
urgently in need of under-planting or under-sowing. 
Regarding the past management of the forest, Mr Hill writes: 
— Going back to the last century, it is recorded that in 1787 
the forest carried a mixed crop of oak and beech in the proportion 
of two beeches to one oak, and this clearly indicates the conditions 
under which the fine oaks for which the forest was renowned were 
produced, They are identical with those under which, in the 
