TREES TO PLANT 



there are yet small supplies left. Aircraft 

 requirements will naturally receive first atten- 

 tion, afterwards agricultural implements and 

 the wants of the carriage-builder will swallow 

 up large quantities in order to make up for 

 the past four years' deficiencies. Where soil 

 is at all of a suitable quality we would strongly 

 urge on prospective tree-planters the neces- 

 sity of including the ash in young plantations, 

 for demand is unprecedented and prices for 

 first-class timber abnormally high. Even in 

 a young state and at all stages of growth the 

 ash is valuable. Beech should find a place in 

 every calcareous or chalky formation where 

 even a small depth of loam overlies the sub- 

 soil, while even in deep gravelly and sandy 

 soils it produces a large quantity of useful 

 timber. 



Elm comes in useful everywhere, and is by 

 no means particular as to soil or site, producing 

 large quantities of timber whether planted as 

 a hedgerow, field, or plantation tree. It is 

 perhaps the most accommodating of our wood- 

 land trees, transplants readily, and grows 

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