8o OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 



trade in teak timber, which is now exported from 

 Burma to the value of nearly ; 1,600,000 a year. 

 As time went on many other demands for 

 timber for constructive purposes arose which 

 could not be satisfied from the woods and forests 

 left in England. As soon as the ninth edition 

 of Evelyn's Sylva, the fourth edition with A. 

 Hunter's notes, was published in 1812, a powerful 

 article on Forestry appeared in the Quarterly 

 Review ; and this, along with Sir Walter Scott's 

 celebrated advice of the Laird o' Dumbiedykes to 

 his son Jock, stimulated many landowners to form 

 extensive plantations. But the art of Forestry 

 was not then known as it now is, though planting 

 was well understood and excellently practised. 

 Thus many of these plantations of the first quarter 

 of this century, which have recently become or 

 are now becoming mature and marketable, have 

 not yielded, and cannot reasonably be expected to 

 yield, anything like the same monetary returns as 

 would otherwise have been the case if due know- 

 ledge and consideration had at time of planting 

 been brought to bear on certain important matters. 

 I may instance selection of the best kind of trees 

 for the soil and situation (to be grown as mixed 



