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profit in as short a period as possible, not a few of them are 

 most carefully attended to and are in most beautiful feature. 

 In the neighbourhood of Ome and Takaido near Tokyo and in 

 Muro in the province of Kii, and in the Yoshino districts of 

 Yamato, there are many forests of Sugi {Crypt omcria japonica 

 Don.) and Hi-no-ki {Chamaccyparis obiusa S. ft Z.) which are 

 the most famous privately owned ones and their profits are 

 large. The general tendency of late has been to plant such 

 trees, as are most demanded in the market and from financial 

 considerations the owners are gradually shortening the age of 

 rotation so that it has become impossible to look to private 

 forests for the supply of huge timber. In order to fill up this 

 defect in the national economy, the plan taken by the Govern- 

 ment with regard to the working of the State forests or those 

 owned by the Imperial Household is to produce such timber 

 as private forests can not supply, by planting such trees to 

 meet the demand in the market and tastes of the people. The 

 period of rotation of these species in the State forests are 

 generally as folio ws : 



Sugi {Cryptomeria japonica Dm.)... 



Hiba (T/mjopsis dolabrata S. et Z.) 



Kara-matsu (Larix leptolepis Gord.) 



Keyaki [Zelkowa acuminata PI.) 



Kurumi and Kuri {Juglans Sieboldiana Maxim, and 



tanea vulgaris Lam. var, t japonica Dc.) 



Hincki {Chamaecyparis o'dusa S. et Z.) 



Aka-matsu {Pimts densijtora S. et Z.) 



Kurc-matsu {Pinus thunlergii Pari at.) 



Kusu-no-ki [Cinnamomum Camphor a Necs.). 

 Kashi (Quer ctis species.) 



In cases when such high rotation is admitted it is of 

 course necessary to maintain the land capacity by the under- 



