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and Willow cuttings may also be used in the same way 

 or with beans. 



Natural Reseeding of the land is almost the only practi- 

 cal means of restocking cheap forest land, as other methods 

 are too expensive. It generally takes place readily, and 

 the only reason why it is not more successful is the fre- 

 quent destruction of the young seedlings by fires and 

 cattle. The small crooked branching Pine and other 



FIG. 13. A fine young growth of Norway Spruce (Picea excelsa) in 

 the forest garden of the "Giessen Forestry School" in Hessen, 

 Germany. A good illustration of the results of regeneration by 

 planting seedlings. 



seeding trees that are always left by lumbermen in their 

 operations here, and generally considered worthless, per- 

 form a very important work in producing seed, and it is 

 a pity that there are not more such trees left to produce 

 seed for our cut-over lands. When such trees escape 



