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judge for the future what would be most suitable 

 and best to choose for the purpose of forest cultivation 

 under circumstances similar to those at Aas. This, how- 

 ever, entails, what it is difficult to avoid, that some pieces of 

 the cultivated woodland do not succeed so well as others,and 

 that some small bare spots have to be replanted ; this in- 

 convenience will, however, be removed by more experience. 



' Further, it must be noticed that the present forest culti- 

 vations, on account of their serving in the fir^t place as 

 experiments for the pupils of the school, can conse- 

 quently never be expected to be executed with the same 

 exactness and prospect of a successful result as if workmen 

 of experience could be employed ; the pupils having only 

 when they have finished their instructions in forest culti- 

 vation in each course, acquired the experience necessary, 

 and such knowledge of matters as that would be required 

 from an ordinary trained planter. The practising foresters 

 in Germany are wont, in a well-known phrase, to talk with 

 a certain disrespect of " academical plantings " : plantings 

 executed by the students at the agricultural academies ; 

 and the same thing might consequently with some right 

 be used about the plantings executed by the pupils here. 

 This point should therefore be well considered when criti- 

 cising the cultivations ; and it must not be forgotten that 

 these cultivations are, and must be considered as, works of 

 inexperienced pupils ; on which account the ordinary 

 plantings here will also always have a comparatively 

 greater extent than would be the case under other circum- 

 stances.' 



After these remarks, which were considered necessary to 

 draw attention to the forest cultivations executed subse- 

 quent to the same becoming an obligatory subject of 

 instruction, the report proceeds : 



'In the year 1872 about 3 maal on the hill between 

 Frydenhaug and the lodging-house for the workmen, 

 near to the sowing of 1871, were sowed with fir seed, 

 mixed with a little larch seed. The seed came up all right, 

 and it looks well. On the space between the high road 



