FORESTRY 



Finborough, Hintlesham, Kentwell, Loudham, Melford, Rougham, Rushbrooke, Santon Downham, 

 Saxham and Stowlangtoft. 



On the estates or in the parks of Ickworth, Orwell, Campsey Ash, Brandon, Sotterley, and 

 more particularly at Culford, a fair amount of planting has been accomplished of recent years that 

 may rightly be included under the term arboriculture, or tree planting from a commercial or agricul- 

 tural point of view, and not merely or solely for game preserving or ornamental landscape effects. 



Taking the county of Suffolk as a whole, it is satisfactory to find that it has had its full share in the 

 increase of woodland throughout England during the last quarter of a century. The English wood- 

 lands increased by 50,000 acres from 1895 to 1905. During that decade the woodlands of Suffolk 

 increased from 34,77 1 acres to 37,979 acres. The return of 5 June 1905, gives the coppices of the 

 county, that is woods cut over periodically and reproduced naturally from stool shoots, as 11,134 

 acres ; plantations or lands planted or replanted within the last ten years, 2,740 acres , and other 

 woods, 24,105 acres. 



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