CHAPTER XXVIII. 



WOODS AKD PLANTATIONS. 



IN treating of this department of estate management, I shall consider it 

 under the following sections : 



1. The importance of plantations on an estate. 



2. The general system of managing plantations. 



3. The qualifications necessary in a forester. 



4 The kinds of trees adapted to different soils and situations. 



5. Estate nurseries. 



6. Planting, and expense of forming new plantations. 



7. The different kinds of hardy deciduous trees, and their uses. 



8. The thinning of plantations. 



9. The pruning of forest-trees. 



10. The disposing of timber. 



11. The management and sale of underwood. 



12. The transplanting of forest-trees. 



13. The manufacture of timber. 



14. The protection of young trees from deer, hares, and rabbits. 



15. The preservation of timber. 



16. The coniferse. 



17. The cultivation of the newer coniferas in this country. 



18. The barking of trees. 



19. The maintenance of a stock of game along with the proper 



management of woods. 



SECTION 1. -The Importance of Plantations on an Estate. 



Woods and plantations are intimately connected with, and enhance 

 the value of, landed estates to a greater extent than many seem to be 

 aware of. The benefit conferred on agricultural lands by a judicious 

 distribution of plantations may be laid down under three heads 



