284 COMPOUND COPSES UNDEE CONVEESION. 



This preparatory stage would then be succeeded by the real 

 Conversion Rotation, during which the operations would follow the 

 general lines hereunder indicated. 



First Peeiod of the Conversion Eotation. 



First Block Regeneration Fellings 



Second Block Preparatory Thinnings 



Third Block Compound Coppice Fellings. 



Fourth Block do. 



Fifth Block do. 



And so on during the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth 

 Periods. If, besides this, each of the Blocks other than the First 

 comprises in itself a complete series of Coppice Fellings, the general 

 Working Scheme becomes very simple. 



But actually this happy coincidence rarely occurs, and when it 

 does not exist, it would be a great mistake to force matters in or- 

 der to obtain the simple outline of work which it renders possible. 

 It is in the general conditions imposed by the organisation of the 

 forest, in the cultural treatment which the conversion demands, and 

 in the gradual improvement of the forest, that the necessary solu- 

 tion to the question connected with the General Working Scheme 

 should be sought. 



Thus, by way of resuming what we have said, we see that the 

 success of an organisation for conversion depends entirely on the 

 efficient manner in which the various cultural operations are execu- 

 ted, if the General Working Scheme is based on the following 

 conditions .• — 



( a ) The First Block stocked with old copse possessing a high 

 cover and containing a sufificiently large number of seedbearers to 

 admit of the immediate conversion of that portion of the Work- 

 ing Circle. ( b) The Second Block composed of coppice crops of 

 any ages whatsoever, but containing in a numerous reserve, or at 

 least in the underwood, or still better in the reserve and the under- 

 wood together, species suited for high forest growth in sufficient 

 proportion to be capable in a short time of forming by themselves 

 a complete leaf-canopy, (c) The other Blocks comprising the 

 rest of the coppice crops, no matter what their density and the com- 



