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d. The Selection System. 



Here the drawbacks of the group system are further 

 intensified, without offering sufficient compensation by 

 way of advantages in other respects. True, the soil is 

 still more completely protected, but this is generally 

 accompanied by withholding from the young growth a 

 suitable measure of light. 



The system is, in Europe, confined to localities where 

 the uninterrupted maintenance of a crop of forest trees 

 is necessary for the protection of the soil against heavy 

 rain, snow, wind, etc., in fact for so-called protection 

 forests in high or steep mountains. It is also useful in 

 forests of specially small or large extent ; in the former, 

 if the area is insufficient for a regular division into 

 compartments, and if nevertheless a certain quantity 

 of timber is required annually; in very large forests 

 which are as yet in the first stage of systematic manage- 

 ment, such as many of the forests in India. It is also 

 practised, generally in a rude form, where the demand 

 for produce is as yet much below the supply. 



II. NATURAL REGENERATION FROM ADJOINING WOODS. 



After the area has been clear cut, the seeding is 

 effected by the seed falling from mother trees, which 

 do not stand on the cleared area, but alongside of it. 



The points which demand attention are the conditions 

 of success and the merits of the system. 



VOL. II. 



