SO WING. 2 1 



On these grounds many foresters advocate the 

 resort to planting for the more valuable trees a 

 system which admits of the plants being placed 

 at once at the required distances apart; and al- 

 though it requires a greater first outlay, this is 

 supposed to be well compensated for by the 

 saving of cost of early thinning, and the more 

 uniform and healthy development of the planta- 

 tion. Moreover, where seed of the required variety 

 is scarce, the greater care which it is possible to 

 give to the preparation of soil in nurseries renders 

 it often possible to stock a plantation on this 

 system with five per cent, of the seed that would be 

 required to sow it. 



