FOREST POLICY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 19 
important chapter, especially as the financial aspect of the 
question is very fully gone into. Then comes “ Notes on Some 
Types of British Woodlands,” and the first part of these notes 
discusses the management of woods as game preserves, and 
shows how easy it is to adapt the management of woods, under 
a proper system, so as to ensure a full head of game, while at 
the same time they give an adequate return of revenue from 
their produce. He advises treating pheasant preserves in 
““coppice-with-standards,” and describes fully, by means of an 
example, what should be done to ensure proper working of the 
forests, and as little interference as possible with the rearing of 
the birds and the annual shooting. 
A chapter on the conversion of coppice-woods into high- 
forest deserves an attentive study by numbers of the landowners 
of England, whose treatment of their woods, whether or not 
they are required as game preserves, scarcely ever goes beyond 
a miserable growth of coppice, with a number of standards of 
more or less decrepit aspect, with short boles and rounded heads 
covering much ground. A good many foresters would differ 
from Dr Schlich in recommending coppice-with-standards as 
the best treatment for game preserves; in their opinion equally 
good results would be obtained by a treatment in high-forest, 
for the system of working applied to the high-forest may be so 
arranged that only small areas are at any time without a thick 
undergrowth. To make the conversion of coppice-woods into 
high-forest, Dr Schlich advises as follows: “As soon as the 
“‘ coppice in any section has been cut, it should be interplanted 
“with suitable timber-trees (vigorous plants with a well-developed 
*‘ root-system planted in pits, and none of that barbarous system 
“called notching, under which the roots are all pushed to one 
“side !), the plants being placed between the stools. They will 
“‘ srow up with the fresh stool-shoots, the latter providing shelter 
“to the soil and drawing the seedling plants up—and so on.” 
This is excellent for simple coppice, but we are not told how 
the standards in coppice-with-standards are to be treated. 
Presumably they will be removed, and in most cases this is 
likely to be the best procedure. The use of coniferous trees for 
the planting is chiefly recommended ; but in many localities it 
will perhaps be better to use good hardwood trees like oak and 
ash. And this brings us to Dr Schlich’s last and most interest- 
ing note on the production of high-class oak, ash, and larch 
