SNOWBREAK. 



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Injured broadleaved woods, especially beech pole-woods, 

 may be repaired by cutting back the bent stems at heights 

 of 12 to 18 feet from the ground, the stems being bent 

 straight. In case of very serious damage, however, the 

 injured woods, if not too old for reproduction from the stool, 

 must be cut back close to the ground, and the thinned wood 

 underplanted with beech or silver-fir. In order to fill larger 

 gaps between the trees, sessile oak, larch, Weymouth pine, 

 white alder and robinia may be used, the two latter at low 

 altitudes. 



By means of a combination of all these plantings, woods 

 like coppice-with-standards will result, which, owing to their 

 unevenness in age, height and rate of growth, will be better 

 able to withstand future falls of snow. 



Fig. 257. Beech bent by siiow. Sihlwald, near Zurich. 



