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successful competition with home-grown timber, 

 led new experiments in the cultivation of foreign 

 trees in Germany to be put speedily into 

 practice. 



Austria and Switzerland have followed the 

 example of Germany ; in France there is an 

 apparent holding back. In England and Scot- 

 land a great many experiments have been tried, 

 but owing to lack of system not with the best 

 results. 



So far as the German experiments, after a 

 twenty-year trial, can be summed up, the results 

 are undoubtedly of great forestal value. The new 

 introductions during this period have brought 

 trees to Germany which excel the German 

 species in modesty as to soil requirements, in 

 frost -hardiness, and in rapid growth ; which 

 partly equal the German species in timber pro- 

 duction, partly surpass them ; so that there is a 

 promise that Germany will produce, in the course 

 of the next century, as much of the splendid 

 American hickory, walnut, Douglasia, and white 

 pine wood at home as she requires. Of course 

 the cultivation of other timber species, such as 

 pitch pine, must be reserved for warmer foreign 

 lands. Should the above promise not be realised, 

 the blame must not be laid on the foreign trees, 

 nor on the German soil, nor on the German 

 climate, but rather on German foresters who 



