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Auxiliary species if of sufficient importance may be mentioned 

 an indication given to their abundance : 

 " Glades of. horse chestnut trees along the nalas." 

 " A few large Jialdu scattered through the crop." 

 It is unnecessary to enumerate in compartment after compart- 

 ment the numerous auxiliary species of minor importance ; but 

 an indication should be given of the vegetation covering the soil, 

 as this is of importance in natural regeneration. 



' The soil is covered with a moderate growth of grass with 

 bushes of Flemingia." 



"Dense undergrowth of Strobilanthes." 



The technical nature of the crop expresses in a characteristic 

 manner what it is.; whether a thicket, sapling or pole crop; 

 whether regular or irregular high forest. 



The density is expressed by stating whether the leaf canopy is 

 complete or not, close or open and to what extent these different 

 feature occur. The age is given when known or ascertaiuable. 

 The origin of the existing crop should be mentioned whether 

 resulting from coppice, natural or artificial regeneration, so far as 

 any knowledge is available on these points. A note should be 

 made of any serious damage resulting from fire, lopping, grazing, 

 etc., which has left its mark on the crop. 



The following from Broillard's " Oours d'amenagement " is 

 deserving of the careful consideration of all working plan officers : 



" As a rule there is peculiar to each crop some special charac- 

 teristic, some important fact that is more or less obvious which 

 must be observed and noted. Now, it is one thing then another. 

 Experience, and the acquired sense of the forester's art, which has 

 sometimes been termed his second sight, can alone enable him to 

 lecoguise it. If it has been passed unnoticed, if it is not clearly 

 brought out, if it is not faithfully interpreted in describing the 

 compartment, that description may be lengthy, drawn up with 

 care, specious, but for all that inadequate and deceptive." 



