RAISING OK KEEPING UP THE FOREST 95 



REVIEW OF METHODS OF STARTING NEW GROWTH 

 IN FORESTS 



We have now looked over the various ways which dif- 

 ferent people employ to keep up different kinds of forests. 

 Of course every one of these principal ways may be, and 

 actually is, modified or changed by different men to suit 

 particular cases. In this way there are a good many kinds 

 of coppice, using different trees and different rotations ; 

 one man leaves only a few trees in his standard coppice, 

 another holds over so many trees that the standard coppice 

 approaches the timber forest. In the same way one man 

 picks over his whole tract of selection forest every year ; 

 another works one fourth of it until this fourth is all cut 

 over and stocked with new growth, and then goes to the 

 next fourth, etc. In this way his selection forest becomes 

 more regular and approaches the common method of 

 starting the young growth under seed trees. 



We have learned, too, that whatever the system of 

 management may be, the starting of a new growth 

 the reproduction, the keeping up of the forest is the 

 main feature in the mind of the forester, and his methods 

 are described, named, and compared with this chief object 

 in view. 



The table on the following page will help us to fix in 

 our memory the principal methods of reproduction, each 

 giving rise to a particular form of forest. 



