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the time of planting is said to have been " 2-year seedlings, 

 twice and thrice transplanted," and the planting method adopted 

 seems probably to have been a rough form of pitting. The 

 hillside is so steep that the planters are said to have been 

 obliged to kneel on the ground while planting, to avoid slipping 

 down the hill. 



In default of exact measurements and stem-analysis, it may be 

 taken that the mean of the percentages of the current annual 

 growth in girth and growth in height will give a fairly correct 

 estimate of the percentage of current annual growth in cubic 

 contents. In such case it would be 5 per cent., and with the 

 present volume of 3255 cubic feet per acre, the increment for the 

 year 1912 may be estimated at 5 per cent, of this, or i62|- cubic 

 feet, making a total of 3417 cubic feet when the plantation will 

 have completed its thirty-fourth year of growth. This shows an 

 average annual increment of looh cubic feet (square of quarter- 

 girth measurement and with full bark allowance deducted). 



Nursery. — An area of about 4 acres was broken in last year to 

 form a nursery. The soil seems well suited for the raising of 

 seedlings, as it is naturally drained by a gravelly subsoil. In the 

 spring of the year breaks were laid out 30 by 40 yards, in which 

 the following plants were lined out: — 100,000 i-year seedling 

 larch, 100,000 i-year seedling silver fir, 50,000 2-year seedling 

 silver fir, 20,000 i-year seedling Douglas fir, iio,oco 2-year 

 seedling Thuja gigantea. Sowing operations were delayed until 

 1 8th May on account of wet weather, when 10 seed-beds were 

 laid off and the following seeds sown : — 100 lbs. Douglas fir 

 (which was purchased direct from America), 30 lbs. Cupressus 

 Lawioniana (home seed), 11 lbs. Norway spruce, i lb. Sitka 

 spruce, and small quantities of birch and alder. It is intended 

 to utilise these seedlings mainly for underplanting larch and 

 Scots pine. 



Japanese Larch. — At Puck's Glen, on the lower ground, two 

 strips of Japanese larch have been successfully established. 

 These are now 9 years of age, and range from 14 to 18 feet high. 

 It is interesting to note that it has been found impossible to 

 establish European larch on this land on account of disease. 



Natural Regeneration Plots. — On the lee side of Rashfield 

 Wood two small areas were enclosed about four years ago 

 with the idea of obtaining natural regeneration. These plots 

 were found to contain a fair crop of Thuja seedlings. 



