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for quick-growing poplars by Evelyn. And this 

 is just one of the principal causes, along with 

 injudicious and premature thinning, why all our 

 woodland crops hardwood, softwood, and coni- 

 ferous have neither been so remunerative in the 

 past as they ought to have been, nor are so well 

 qualified to yield a class of wood best supplying 

 the requirements of the market in the present, as 

 they should now be doing. But this fact must 

 receive general recognition before it can be hoped 

 that steps will be taken to remedy the defects 

 arising therefrom, and to make Forestry more 

 remunerative and better able to supply the wants 

 of the British timber market in the future. 



