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diately after that exploitation or of small seedlings one or two 

 years previously. For self-sowing, a sufficient number of healthy 

 large-crowned trees should be reserved, even if they have ceased to 

 make any further useful increment. The growing individuals from 

 among these trees will be retained as stores throughout the new 

 rotation, while the rest will be removed at the end of one or two 

 years, during which the sowing, if it is to succeed at all, must take 

 place. Owing to the usual closeness of the undergrowth, any 

 seedlings that may come up at any time afterwards, before the leaf- 

 canopy again becomes open enough just before the next exploitation, 

 would generally be at once suppressed. Those young seedlings, 

 which do come up in time, will have to be specially protected 

 against suppression. The planting will be effected as in the case 

 of simple coppice, but the conditions will be more favourable 

 here, by reason of the longer rotations adopted for stored coppice 

 and, therefore, of the more open condition of the underwood near 

 the epoch of its exploitation. A special instance, peculiar to stored 

 coppice, of planting after the exploitation requires separate notice; 

 as a rule, no seedlings will be found under the parent stores, and 

 the gaps produced by the removal of these latter may have to be 

 planted up. The seedlings used must necessarily be very large, 

 the surrounding regrowth being already from one to two years 

 old. On this account such work is generally very expensive and 

 should be restricted within very narrow limits, save when the 

 species thus propagated commands a very high price and grows 

 well in the locality. 



In all the various cases referred to here, seedlings coming up 

 in small groups have the best chance of surviving and fulfilling 

 the object for which they are wanted. 



In bare exposed places it may be found useful to get up early 

 some sort of temporary shelter by putting down cuttings in the 

 shape of posts. In very wet land also cuttings may prove better 

 than seedling transplants. 



