I 8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



and is now in condition for supplying the planting material 

 as well as for growing rarer species for planting in the park. 



The woods are all badly ])rovided with roads, and all new 

 plantations are to be laid out in proper compartments with 

 a proper series of roads and paths. 



In the present condition of the woods it would serve no 

 useful object to attempt to fix the area which will ultimately 

 be cut and replanted annually. There is every likelihood that 

 the present clean-cutting system will be done away with, and 

 its place taken by natural regeneration on the group-system. 

 It has been assumed meantime that the production of about 

 30 to 35 acres could be cut each year. Thus the present 

 unstocked area represents more than twenty times the normal 

 area which should fall to be restocked each year. It is 

 proposed to plant at the rate of about 60 acres a year for the 

 first five years, and for the following period of seven years 

 at the rate of 50 acres per annum, and then for two years 

 more at the rate of 25 acres per annum. Thus the whole 

 of the unstocked ground would be brought under crop in 

 fourteen years. In the first five years none of the old wood 

 is to be felled, but all the woods are to be cleaned up and 

 dead and back-going trees removed. In the sixth year a 

 beginning is to be made with the removal of the old woods, 

 and for a period of seven years an area of about 10 acres 

 per annum is to be cut. After that period the annual cut is 

 to be increased to from 30 to 35 acres. 

 The planting scheme thus is : — 



