448 THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. 



PLANTS SUITED FOR SANDY SOILS. 



A Lies balsamea. 

 Pinus Attstriaca. 



excelsa. 



Laricio. 



Muglio. 



Pinus pinaster. 



Pvmilo. 



Taada. 

 Citpressus torutosa. 



PLANTS SUITED FOR THE SEA-COAST. 



Allies excelsa. 



nigar. 



Nordmaniana. 



Pinsapo. 



MenziesiL 

 Pinus Austriaca. 



Pinus Cemlra. 

 Muffho. 

 pinaster. 

 excelsa. 

 strobiis. 

 sylvestris. 



SECTION 18. The Barking of Trees. 



The removal and curing of bark from some of our forest-trees is an 

 important part of a forester's work ; and I shall therefore give a brief 

 description of the way in which we usually cure oak-bark. 



Having had the trees marked in the wood or plantation, a large or 

 small force of hands must of course be employed, according to the amount 

 of work to be done in a given time, as there are only a few weeks in 

 which oak - bark should be peeled and cured. As a general rule, 

 this should be done from, the middle of May to the middle of June. 

 In the midland counties and south of England it can of course be 

 taken sooner ; but presuming that there are only four or five weeks 

 in which the bark can be judiciously removed, a calculation must be 

 made as to the amount of bark likely to be removed, and the num- 

 ber of labourers it will require to remove it within a given time. We 

 usually ascertain the quantity of bark by taking the probable amount 

 of timber in the trees to be removed ; and we calculate that four tons, 

 or one hundred and sixty feet of timber, will give, under ordinary 

 circumstances, one ton of bark ; and as we generally find that it 

 requires an expenditure of from 45s. to 50s. to cut the trees and peel 

 one ton of oak-bark, the number of hands required must be arranged 

 accordingly. In Scotland the stripping of the bark is done by women 

 and boys, but in many parts of England men alone are employed. In 

 proceeding with the work, if the trees are below a size of from six 

 to eight inches diameter, we usually cut them down with the axe ; 

 but when the trees are over that size, then we generally fell them with 

 the saw. 



