GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



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Fig. 10. Condition of the stump 

 at the end of the tenth year. 



Advantage of increasing the Number of Reserve 

 Trees. In addition to the advantages which each 

 individual tree may derive 

 from the method of pruning 

 recommended in this treatise, 

 there is a possibility of add- 

 ing, and, in fact, doubling the 

 number of reserve trees in a 

 plantation without interfer- 

 ing with the coppice or grow- 

 ing sprouts which surround 

 them. 



If it can be proved that the number of timber trees 

 may be doubled in a plantation by good management, 

 and that the value of indi- 

 vidual trees scattered through 

 the fields and along the road- 

 sides may be wonderfully in- 

 creased, it is easy to under- 

 stand that a land-owner may 

 greatly benefit himself and 

 add to the wealth of his 

 country by adopting such 

 methods. 



That pruning can accom- 

 plish the results which are claimed for it is found in 

 the fact that trees treated by the rational system 

 proposed grow more vigorously and retain their 

 foliage longer than unpruned trees in the same 

 locality grown under similar conditions. 



Fig. 11. Trunk of an Oak ruined 

 by the decay of the stump of a 

 branch. 



