no PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



really healthy larch plantations. The seller, who 

 planted, receives his money plus a fair interest, and 

 the buyer purchases at a reasonable rate something 

 of certain prospective value. Valuers are satisfied 

 because the value is readily determined. 



When, however, these plantations have been 

 unwisely planted, or after planting been neglected, 

 the seller is in the same position as any other person 

 who has unwisely invested his capital. 



With regard to the method of valuing and selling 

 standing larch, it is very similar to the process already 

 described. If the whole plantation is to be sold for 

 felling there will be no need to mark, but it should 

 be carefully lotted by the forester or auctioneer into 

 suitable lots, and the lots should be carefully defined, 

 so that they do not intermingle. 



If a thinning only is for sale, the forester must 

 himself carefully mark those which should be removed 

 before lotting. For information upon this point we 

 must refer him to the chapter on " Thinning." 



As we have before stated, it is not necessary for 

 the forester to take into account the conversion of 

 timber, only so far, at least, as to enable him to set a 

 correct value upon his fall. In larch, perhaps, this 

 knowledge is more necessary than in other classes of 

 timber, as the uses to which it is applied are so 

 numerous as to give it a high value, upon the 

 principle of supply and demand. In accordance with 

 size it is sought after for hop-poles, scaffold and 

 telegraph poles, pit-props, sleepers, flooring-boards, 

 piles, boat-building, wheelwright-work, fencing, and 

 so on. 



