APPROACHING DEARTH OF TIMBER 



and who are fully qualified to advance an 

 opinion, surely it is time that we took up 

 seriously the question of afforestation. 



It goes for the saying that much of the best 

 timber of our country has been sacrificed to 

 meet the requirements of the war, some of the 

 oldest and finest plantations of Scotch pine in 

 various parts of Scotland in particular having 

 been felled. Hardwooded species have not, 

 however, suffered to the same extent, though 

 the country has been practically skinned of its 

 best ash, and heavy consignments of the 

 biggest beech have followed suit from such 

 places as the chalky districts of the Chiltern 

 Hills and other parts of the adjoining counties. 

 However, we have as a nation this consolation, 

 that our home supplies of timber, with, 

 practically speaking, little from old pre-war 

 sources, have tided us over a four years' 

 demand for war purposes of which the world 

 has never had an equal. 



