IO2 KOTES ON FORESTRY. 



seedlings by cutting out such, coppice shoots as 

 crowd them, and planting the bare spots. The 

 block being now laid up, subsequent thinnings 

 would be generally confined to coppice stems until 

 these were all removed. 



TRANSITION FROM THE SYSTEM OF FELLING BY SELEC- 

 TION (PLANTERBETRIEB) TO THAT OF FELLING BY 



ROTATION OF AREA. 



In prescribing rules for such a conversion of 

 system, the European forest officer would natu- 

 rally proceed on the assumption that the forest 

 in which the change of method was to be effected 

 bore some approach to the ideal condition of a 

 just proportion of timber at maturity, and a just 

 proportion of timber at every stage of growth. 

 In dealing with such an ideal forest, the system 

 of rotation of area might be adhered to during a 

 great part of the first rotation. The trees felled 

 would not be of uniform age, and the admissibility 

 of the system would depend to some extent upon 

 the prudence of felling more or less immature 

 timber. 



There are great possibilities of variety in the 

 details of treatment with a view to such a tran- 

 sition, but a single instance will be sufficient to 

 indicate the general principle. 



Let us suppose a forest in which, if the trees 



