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CHAPTER XI 
The Improvement of British Forestry 
‘TREATED in most cases as coverts, game- 
preserves, and pleasure-grounds, neither the Crown 
forests nor the private woodlands of Britain can 
be expected to give the returns they would yield 
under better management. Even in cases where 
timber is grown as an investment, the plantations 
are as a general rule considerably understocked, 
through having been formed at much too wide 
distances to begin with, and then thinned when 
they were just beginning to remedy by natural 
means this initial defect; while not infrequently 
the wrong kinds of trees have been selected for 
growing to the best advantage on the given land 
and in the particular locality. It does not follow 
that because good results are obtained in one 
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