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conducted as in ordinary selection worked forests regulated 

 by area according to the cultural roethod. 



The transformation, fellings would be regulated by volume 

 in the manner already explained. Tlie selection fellings 

 would, on the contrary, be applied by area according to cul- 

 tural rules, with or without a limit as to the number of trees 

 to be felled. The general working scheme will be drawn up 

 absolutely as already explained. 



THE GROUP METHOD. 



General description. — This is merely a modification of the 

 method of successive fellings. All the calculations connected 

 with the manner of prescribing the possibility, etc., are iden- 

 tical in the two methods, and the gradual exposure of the 

 young seedlings is secured by means of two or three succes- 

 sive regeneration fellings. These successive fellings are, 

 however, in the group method all made simultaneously by 

 groups, that is to say, wherever a patch of seedlings is al- 

 ready established it is at once exposed in greater or less degree 

 to the climatic influences. Where seedlings do not exist, the 

 cover is opened out with a view to their establishment. The 

 method in fact amounts to this that the volume of material 

 to be felled annually in the block under regeneration having 

 been determined, this volume is felled by patches or groups 

 ■wherever a group of established seedlings exists or is desired. 

 The patch is then enlarged, or new patches are opened out 

 from time to time as the area covered with established seed- 

 lings extends. The method is applied in exactly the same way 

 as the method of successive fellings, and comprises similar 

 clearings, thinnings, and selection fellings. 



PASTOBAL TKEATMENT. 



Areas to which applicable, — There are many tree-clad lands 

 in India under the control of the Forest Department which 



