THE EE5EBTED POTJETHS. 

 STATEMENT 

 OF TEE COIDIUNE OE TELLE. 



E33 



Age in 

 rS79 



Standiocr Stock. 



Bemarka. 



Years. 

 29 



15 



19 

 19 



26&25 



24 & 2 I 

 26&25 



( Copse of oak almost pure, with 



< second-class standards, few, taU and 

 ( deteriotated through epicorma. 



f Copse of oak, hornbeam and soft- 

 i woods ; standards few of oak with 

 (.some beech. 



f Copse conposed chieky of oak and"| 

 I softwoods ; fine oak standards ; }■ 

 { growth of crop vigorous. J 



i Copse of oak, hornbeam and soft- 

 woods ; standards few bat talL 



( Young copse of almost pore oak ; 1 



< standards very numerous of oak, > 

 ( first and second class. ) 



( Copse of pure oak surmounted by a J 



J numerous reserve of first and second ( 



\ class oak standards, of average { 



1 { growth, clear of epicorms. ) 



r Simple copse of hornbeam, oak and I 

 ■{ softwoods ; a few birches ; growth > 

 ^active. ) 



As above.' 



Same as above, but less foU. 



This compartment was last 

 exploited at the age of 52 

 years after a Preparatory 

 Felling. 



24 li 20 I As above. 



I 



This oak copse, only recent- 

 ly raised, has just been ex- 

 ploited for the third time. 



Same ori^n as above. 



This compartment was plant- 

 ed in 1818, cut back 10 

 yejrs later, and has as yet 

 been exploited only once. 



As above. 



As above. 

 As above. 



the best result practicable it will be expedient at once to thin the 

 crop in Compartment 1, and postpone its exploitation till that of the 

 canton of La Brande has been completed. 



3. The general situation is level, at 1000 feet above the sea. The soil be- 

 longs to the Oxford clays, covered over in places with clayey sand containing ' 

 pisiform grains of iron ore ; it is silicious and fairly stiS. 



4. The crops of moderate vigour are the beat, especially as concerns form- 

 ed trees, wherever hornbeam forms part of the underwood. 



