148 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



a complete Forestry Survey may be conveniently resolved into 

 two component parts, viz. : — 



{a) A Preliminary Enqtdry or Flying Sun'ey dealing with the 

 location, in a broad way, of the land which is likely to 

 prove suitable for afforestation purposes, i.e., whether 

 it would be more profitable to use for growing timber 

 than to continue in its present condition or use. 

 {b) A Minute Inquiry or Detailed Survey to examine in 

 detail any such suitable land. 

 " The object of the Preliminary Survey is to ascertain whether 

 a. prima facie case exists for afforestation in a district, while the 

 object of the Detailed Survey is to provide, for such specific 

 areas as the Preliminary Survey may indicate, the data on 

 which definite schemes of afforestation may be expeditiously 

 and economically founded. 



" 5. We consider that surveys of both types are necessary as a 

 preliminary step towards the inauguration of afforestation 

 operations. 



" 6. From the evidence placed before the various Government 

 enquiries which have dealt with forestry, and from our general 

 knowledge of the distribution of relatively unproductive land in 

 England and Wales, we recommend that the Preliminary Survey 

 be restricted in the first instance to the following seven 

 districts : — 



I. South Wales. 11. North Wales. III. Westmorland, 

 Cumberland and Northumberland. IV. Kent, Surrey 

 and Sussex. V. Berks, Hants, Wilts and Dorset. 

 VI. Derby, Lancashire and the West Riding. VII. Lin- 

 coln, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 

 " 7. We recommend that the Board, in conducting these 

 Preliminary Surveys, utilise to the fullest extent the knowledge 

 which local landowners, agents and foresters possess, and we 

 therefore suggest the formation of local committees to co- 

 operate with the Board in making the requisite enquiries, and 

 that the Royal English Arboricultural Society be invited to 

 co-operate to this end. 



" 8. We recommend that the Preliminary Survey be started 

 as soon as possible in districts I, III, IV, and VII, above. 



" 9. We recommend that, where the Preliminary Survey 

 discloses a sufficient area in any district suitable for afforestation 



