PREPARING WORKING-PLANS FOR BRITISH WOODLANDS. 35 
In every part of the United Kingdom there are now men 
who have specialised in British forestry, and who practise in the 
preparation of working-plans; and their occasional help should 
be as valuable to the land-agent as is that of the veterinary 
surgeon or the estate solicitor. 
To endeavour to give point to the above suggestion, one 
might perhaps be expected to furnish specific examples of 
expensive errors, which might have been avoided under 
competent advice. But that is a thorny path, which craves 
wary walking, and I have no desire to wander in that 
direction. 
