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for quick-growing poplars by Evelyn. And this 
is just one of the principal causes, along with 
injudicious and premature thinning, why all our 
woodland crops—hardwood, softwood, and coni- 
ferous—have neither been so remunerative in the 
past as they ought to have been, nor are so well 
qualified to yield a class of wood best supplying 
the requirements of the market in the present, as 
they should now be doing. But this fact must 
receive general recognition before it can be hoped 
that steps will be taken to remedy the defects 
arising therefrom, and to make Forestry more 
remunerative and better able to supply the wants 
of the British timber market in the future. 
