PBEFACE 



THIS book contains the opinions and impressions of a 

 practical forester on a few of the more important subjects 

 connected with English Estate Forestry. In its pages an 

 attempt has been made to place the position of Estate 

 Forestry clearly before the reader, and to indicate a few 

 directions in which improvements are possible. The Author 

 feels, probably in common with many practical foresters, 

 that English Forestry is sufficiently distinct from Continental, 

 or even Scotch Forestry to entitle it to be regarded as a 

 separate subject, and that the non-recognition of this fact 

 has led to a great deal of misconception in the minds of 

 many, who are more or less anxious to see English Forestry 

 raised to a higher level. 



This book is intended to be suggestive rather than 

 instructive to the practical forester. There is little in its 

 pages but what he already knows, and possibly a great deal 

 with which he will not agree. But as a more or less faithful 

 record of individual experience it is offered as a small con- 

 tribution to forestry literature, which, if it does not enrich, 

 it will not, it is hoped, disgrace. 



To the woodland proprietor it may also prove more 

 suggestive than instructive. He will, at any rate, find its 

 few recommendations in accord with his own interests, and 

 that both Sport and Landscape Effect have been dealt with 

 sympathetically. That both these matters can be considered 

 in practical forestry without prejudicially affecting economic 



