338 Italy. 



wood from these planted trees is estimated at 

 6 milli oncords. 



On the sand dunes and near the seashore, especially 

 in the marshes, the Maritime, the Aleppo Pine, and 

 the umbrella-shaped Pinus pinea, and picturesque 

 Cypresses are sometimes found in small groves, while 

 the calcareous hills in this region up to 1200 feet are 

 studded with olives, cork and evergreen oak. Osier 

 growing is here also quite extensively practiced. In 

 the mountains, above the 2700 foot level, conifer 

 forest, composed of Pinus silvestris and laricio, and 

 Abies pectinata, has been reduced to less than 7 per 

 cent, of the whole, mixed conifer and deciduous forest 

 represents 4 per cent., the bulk being deciduous forest 

 of oak (several species) and beech, with chestnut. 

 Forty-eight per cent,, of the forest area is in coppice 

 (ceduo), and of the 52 per cent, of high forest, the bulk 

 is managed under selection system (a scelta), a small 

 part under clearing system {ad alto fusto), although 

 management can hardly be said to exist except in 

 small groves. 



That supply of workwood is insufficient for the 

 needs of the population, and is decreasing, is attested 

 by the fact that the importations more than doubled 

 in the decade from 1892 to 1903 to near 14 million 

 dollars, 80 per cent, of which was saw material, in 

 addition to 2 million dollars of wood manufactures, 

 while nearly 5 million dollars' worth was exported 

 in the last named year, mostly cork, casks, thin box- 

 boards, olive wood manufactures, and charcoal. No 

 better picture of the forest conditions can be had than 

 by a statement of the home production, which, in 



