56 Tree Planting and Tree Felling 



England except perhaps in the case of large forests of 

 pine trees, which are specially inflammable because of 

 the resin they contain. Insect pests are best prevented 

 by planting two kinds of trees together and by keeping 

 them in a healthy condition. 



Your plantation has taken a long time to grow 

 up, and the chances are that not yourselves but your 

 children or grandchildren will get the full benefit of 

 it. You may, however, comfort yourselves with the 

 thought that this restocking of England with trees is 

 a really important question and one that has been 

 receiving much attention from statesmen in the last 

 few years. Its importance lies not only in the amount 

 of wood which we are obliged to import because of the 

 insufficiency of our home supplies, but because the 

 making of plantations on waste ground would do some- 

 thing towards solving the problem of unemployment in 

 winter of which we hear so much. 



The late autumn and winter is the time when the 

 forester is busiest, a time when all the casual workers 

 that have been kept busy harvesting and hopping are 

 no longer wanted by the farmers and are glad to turn 

 their hands to the work waiting to be done in the woods. 



Many schools now keep an Arbor day for tree 

 planting once a year. The children try to collect from 

 friends the price of a tree, say 6d., and as many as 

 succeed in doing so set out on Arbor Day with spades 

 and trees which they plant along a new street or in 

 a piece of waste ground that has been chosen for the 

 purpose. In this way some of our ugliest towns are 

 being gradually beautified with green trees. The time 

 chosen is either the beginning of November or the end 

 of March. 



