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effectually smoother any young tree. In most cases a certain 

 amount of sowing and planting will be necessary to complete 

 natural regeneration and there should be no hesitation in carrying 

 out this work to such extent as may be necessary. In Kulu after 

 burning the slash it is a routine measure to sow up the burnt heaps 

 with deodar seed and the results are magnificent. Surplus plants 

 are removed from these heaps when 1J years old and planted out. 

 Every endeavour is made to complete the regeneration in as short 

 a time as possible, as every year that passes after the execution of 

 the seeding felling makes success more difficult and expensive. 

 Artificial sowing and planting is also necessary when it is desired 

 to increase the proportion of a valuable species in a mixed crop 

 and this cannot be effected by natural means. French forestry 

 inclines perhaps too much to natural regeneration and German 

 practice to artificial planting. The happy mean between the two 

 schools will give the best results and the good forester will aim at 

 getting the bulk of his new crop by natural means and should then 

 not hesitate to assist nature to his utmost ability by completing the 

 crop artificially. Working on these lines very considerable success 

 has been obtained, and as time passes it is hoped that more and 

 more attention will be given to the various silvicultural operations 

 which are necessary to obtain natural regeneration, that research 

 will indicate to us the correct treatment of the soil to ensure a 

 complete reproduction and maintain this in health and vigour, and 

 that the light requirements of more and more of our principal 

 species will be elucidated and their methods of natural regenera- 

 tion standardised. 







The young seedlings will now be growing up and in the next 

 essay their subsequent treatment will be dealt with. 



" TBOWSCOED." 



