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may be obtained on which to work out a scheme which 

 may guide the conservators of the forest for all time ; and 

 lastly, that much planting, and the careful thinning and 

 prunning of existing trees, must be judiciously prosecuted 

 for many years.' It- is added : ' The execution of all 

 these works would form the best possible groundwork for 

 the practical training of the foresters in the future.' And 

 in the programme of study which he submits, he says : 

 ' If the course of study should extend over four years, the 

 first two to be spent at Epping Forest, where the trees 

 have been neglected for so many years, it will be the 

 object of the staff to organise order, and produce regularity 

 out of disorder and chaos ; the third year should be spent 

 in the New Forest, which is a tract of sufficient extent, 

 having over 60,000 acres, and which, having been in 

 Government keeping, may be supposed to be a farther 

 advance and development of the principles pursued by 

 the student during his first two years at Epping ; the 

 fourth year should be spent at Windsor, where may be 

 seen the full development of the principles commenced by 

 the student at Epping. After this course of training, 

 those pupils who have diligently applied themselves to 

 their studies during the four years should be drafted off 

 to other fields of usefulness, either at home or abroad/ 



Should it be deemed desirable, as I think it is, that 

 provision be made for still higher or more varied training 

 being given to a select number of the more promising 

 students, the desideratum can be met. In more than one 

 of the most celebrated Schools of Forestry on the 

 Continent, provision is made for the attendance of 

 foreigners, and these enjoy all the educational advantages 

 of the alumni on specified terms. Assuming that the 

 teacher of Botany if there be but one or one of them, if 

 there be more, be qualified by knowledge of the language 

 spoken, such advanced students might be sent under his 

 direction to attend at one of these Continental Forest 

 Schools for a summer session; and possibly permission might 

 be obtained from the same or some other School of 



