THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL EXCURSION, AUGUST 1909. 9 1 



II. 10. Suhlbogen. 109 acres. Oak wood, 410 to 500 years 

 old, mixed with 200-year-old beech and spruce. The 

 cubic contents in old oak is about 105,968 cubic feet. 

 The whole Compartment will be regenerated with 

 oak. The method will be to cut the oak in strips 

 (proceeding from east to west, or north-east to south- 

 west). The strips will be sown with 14 bushels of 

 acorns per acre, after the soil has been artificially 

 prepared. 

 I. II. Grubet. 46 acres. 33 years. Oak wood (sown). King's 

 oak; height 118 feet with a clean stem of 65 feet, 

 valued at about ;^iSo. 

 I. 10. Rotmarter. 66 J acres. 53 years. Oak wood (sown and 

 natural regeneration) with beech. Thinning in 

 process. 

 I. 12. Buchenholz. Formerly private forest, but purchased by 



the State within the last few years ; of varying age. 

 I. 9. Heugrund. 24^ acres. 70-year-old beech with a few 



spruce and oak thinned 1908. 

 I. 8. Platte. 20 acres. 73 years' beech with advanced growth 



of oak, birch, and spruce. 

 I. 7. Fleckl. no years. Spruce wood with a few beech and 

 larch. Felling in combined systems (strip and selection 

 cutting). A ride had been cut through to facilitate 

 transport. 

 Here the Danube was crossed by the ferry to Weltenburg, 

 whence the return journey to Kelheim was made by boat. 

 During the journey a wood of oak and ash 55 years old was 

 seen at Wipfelsfurt. Height of ash and oak, 112 to 115 feet; 

 free from branches to a height of 82 feet. (Compartments 

 Kanzel and Hohlstein.) 



Monday, gth August 1909. 



sketch of the forest conditions in the 

 nurember(;er reichswaldenungen. 



I. — Position. 



The extensive State Forest area known as the Reichswald 

 stretches along both banks of the Pegnitz River, upon which is 

 situated the town of Nuremberg. It is divided into two main parts, 

 which are called after the two principal churches of the town — 



