

168 PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



(terminalia, tomentosd), failing these siris, Jialdu, bakli or any 

 useful light crowned species may be reserved. It is essential 

 that the reserved standards be distributed evenly over the coupe. 

 Instances have been noticed where marking officers have retained a 

 group of standards all huddled together and none elsewhere and 

 pretended that they were reserving the correct number ordered. If 

 50 standards are ordered to the acre the standards should stand more 

 or less about 30 feet apart. One way of getting the right number 

 is to lay out one chain square and select the necessary number of 

 trees in our instance 5, then 10 of these squares will equal an acre 

 and 50 standards will have been reserved. The correct distribu- 

 tion of the age classes of the standards is a matter of very great 

 importance when the rotation of the standards is several times 

 that of the coppice. With a 60 year rotation for sal standards in 

 coppice the new standards are all salected from the coppice 

 previous to this being felled. With a rotation of 80 years and a 

 coppice rotation of 20 years there should be in theory 4 age 

 classes :-- 



Now the standards are not to occupy more than l/3rd of the 

 canopy so that each age class of the standards must occupy l/9th 

 of the total canopy. In order to comply with this there must 

 be more of the younger and fewer of the older standards and at 

 each felling besides removing the oldest "standards ; some of 

 classes 1 and 2 must also be cut, a fresh selection of standards 

 must be made from the coppice and the rest of the coppice felled. 



The -following are the orders regarding the selection of 

 standards : 



(1) All climbers are to be cut. 



(2) The standards reserved are to be marked clearly with a ring 



of white or black paint or coal tar. 



