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TABLE FOR MIXED OAK, ASH, AND LARCH STANDARDS. 

 Soil and situation Quality I. 



Rotation for Standards : Oak, 100 years ; Larch and Ash, 80 years. 

 Rotation for Underwood, 20 years. 



Trees planted for standards 



Total standards . 

 Trees planted for coppice 



Total 



Oak. Larch. Ash. 



60 50 40 at each felling. 



150 

 60 



210 trees. 



About one or two years after the coppice is cut, all young 

 standards should be pruned l which are in need of it ; and a 

 year or two after that, the young trees just planted should be 

 freed from any coppice shoots which threaten them. 



As regards the species of tree that may be planted for 

 standards, they must always be thinly foliaged trees, and 

 as already stated, Oak, Ash, and Larch are usually selected. 



But on clay soils Black Poplar and Black Italian Poplar 

 will usually prove most valuable ; though they should never 

 be grown in conjunction with Oak. The White Poplar may 

 also be planted on very stiff clay soils, where it seems to 

 thrive better than the other Poplars ; but generally it is not 



1 See Chapter VII. 



