PBACTICAL. FORESTRY. 



cold blasts at high altitudes, ample evidence can be adduced 

 on many an English and Scotch estate where the pine has 

 been introduced to the woodlands in such quantity as in 

 certain places to form the ultimate or standing crop. In 

 North Wales, on one of the Snowdon range of hills, I have 

 planted the Corsican pine in great quantity. The planta- 

 tion was, for the greater part, fully exposed to the dreaded 

 south-westerly wind, which at times blows hard and long, 

 and sweeps the hillsides with terrific fury ; yet, under such 

 unfavourable conditions, the Corsican pine has done re- 

 markably well in fact, proved itself to be well suited for 

 planting at high altitudes on our English hillsides. Even 

 at the highest point of the woodland in question, this pine 

 has thriven in a manner that is quite surprising, and thrown 

 its stoutest branches out into the very teeth of the blast, and 

 that where hardly a hardwood tree could survive, and even 

 the Scotch fir shrunk from the cold and almost unceasing 

 storms. Other notable instances of how well the Corsicau 

 does on exposed ground and high altitudes might be pointed 

 out such as at Blair Athol, in Perthshire, at 700 ft., where 

 it is thriving amazingly ; and again in Yorkshire, in parts, 

 one of the most barren and wind-swept of English counties, 

 where it grows with a luxuriance that is almost unparalleled 

 in any other part of Britain. The timber produced by the 

 Corsican pine in this country is strong, tough, elastic, very 

 resinous, and easily worked, and this is speaking of trees 

 of fully fifty years' growth. It thrives well on sandy soil, 

 some of the largest specimens of the tree in this country 

 growing along the margin of a disused gravel-pit. 



It may be said that the Corsican pine is perfectly hardy, 

 peculiarly well suited for planting in exposed situations, a 

 rapid and valuable timber-producer, a tree that is cheaply 

 and easily raised from seed, and one of the most non-exacting 

 conifers as regards choice of soil that could be named ail 

 qualities of the highest value in a timber-producing tree, 

 and that are rarely so well concentrated in any other species. 



In France extensive plantations of the Corsican have been 

 formed, while the Prussian Government has introduced it 

 extensively into the State forests 



