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or two places, than to pother ineffectually on many points at pnce. By concentrating 

 the work a great saving will result in many details as well as in the management. 

 Attempts have often been made to combine the supervision and management of native 

 forests with a system of planting, by forest guards, but the results have been of the 

 poorest order. It is best to adopt a division of labour, and keep the plantation work 

 quite separate, and entrusted to separate agents. 



Taking into account the circumstances of the Colony, I should say that it would be 

 reasonable to plant out annually an area of five or six hundred acres. Once the area to 

 be planted each year is decided upon, it should be adhered to without modification, until 

 the first section planted is fit to be felled ; a regular yield for succeeding years, and the 

 future of the forest then become assured. Before commencing planting, the ground 

 should be surveyed and a working plan drawn, showing the limits of each year's work 

 and the roads to be made. The working plan should be very carefully considered before 

 being adopted, as once the work is begun any departure would give future trouble in the 

 management. Its aim should be to create a forest composed of trees of graduated 

 age-classes, disposed in the most advantageous manner for working, for removing the 

 produce, and from a cultural point, of view. There are certain rules relative to the 

 location of cuttings in natural forests, which also apply to plantations. 



In each Series, every tree being subject to the same rotation, it is necessary to 

 choose for planting, species which do not differ too widely in their rates of growth. The 

 species grown side by side should also be capable of thriving together, which is not 

 always the case. Trees that are naturally associated should be mixed in plantations. 

 Thus Cupressus macrocarpa is best mixed with Pinus insignis, and some of oaks, pines 

 and cypresses may be usefully associated. Many trees of the first importance are seldom 

 found together, but with some discrimination it is possible to group species that are the 

 most likely to thrive in company. For instance, if there are to be three Series in the 

 Pine plantation, and one in the Gum plantation, the first Pine Series might consist of 

 American fast growing conifer and deciduous trees : Pinus insignis, Cupressus macrocarpa, 

 Chamcecyvaris Lawsoniana, Catalpa spedosa, Liriodendron tulipifera and Populus moni- 

 lifer<* ; the second Series, of slower growing trees such as Pinus Cedrus, var. Deodara, 

 P. excelsa, P. Canariensis, P. Massoniana, Quercus alba, Q. robur, var. pedunculata, 

 retaining Populus monilifera, to help, with the oaks, to minimize the risk from fires ; and 

 the third Series, of trees, also moderately fast-growing, but preferring a warmer climate, 

 such as Pinus longifolia, P. Pinaster, P.-Pinea, P. Halepensis, with Quercus cerris, 

 Q. alba, Q. robur, var. pedunculata and Populus monilifera, as a protection against fires. 

 The Eucalypt Series may consist of the principal Gums : Eucalyptus globulus, 

 E. amygdalina, E. diversicolor, E. Leucoxylon, E. longifolia, E. marginata, E. obliqua, 

 E. robusta and E. rostrata. It would be well to try whether some of the naturally 



