212 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
acteristics to the Corsican, but the growth of the 
latter in England appears often to be the more 
vigorous; and as its wood is of rather better 
quality, Corsican seems to deserve the preference. 
On poor limy soils, however, Austrian may be 
of special service in re-stocking land which has 
been allowed to become exhausted and deterio- 
rated through past mismanagement. In this 
respect it can sometimes be made to do good 
service in re-stocking hot southern or western 
slopes where thin woods of beech cannot be 
regenerated naturally—a task which has often 
to be faced in the beech tracts of southern 
England. Unless such land is not too stony for 
the plough, it can perhaps best be re-stocked by 
ploughing and broadcast sowing of beech mast, 
Austrian pine seed, and lucerne; otherwise the 
preparation should be in parallel strips running 
horizontally along the slope. The lucerne should 
not be harvested, but allowed to die and form 
manure for the beech and pine, which are to 
form the wood. The subsequent treatment of 
such a crop will of course depend on circum- 
stances, but the first object is to get a stock of 
tree growth of any sort on the ground. 
