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else than the titles of the working plans and the general duties 

 included under each head are stated ; the reader being referred 

 to the other chapters in the book for details of practice and 

 operations that come under one or other of the different heads 

 given in the following working plan that has been thought 

 sufficient to meet the wants of the British forester : — 



-Allotment of the wooded area. 



-Period of rotation. 

 —Choice of species suitable for the locality. 

 4. — Cultural methods to be adopted. 

 5. — Control and general management. 



SECTION I. — ALLOTMENT OF THE WOODED AREA. 



Under this head should be included existing woods ( and 

 any areas proposed to be planted at any future time. In 

 dealing with this part of the work, the forester should first 

 provide himself with a good map of the estate on which the 

 woods are clearly set out. This map will be found in the 

 Ordnance Survey; if on the new and larger scale of twenty- 

 five inches to the mile, all the better. Having ascertained the 

 extent of the existing woods and plantations, and decided on 

 the areas yet to be planted, the first should be coloured a 

 dark-green shade on the map, and the last a light-green, to be 

 deepened after planting. Both should be numbered distinctly 

 on the map, and consecutively from one side of the estate to 

 the other side, and the numbers should correspond with the 

 numbers in the wood register book here described. The words 

 " wood," " forest," or " plantation," should be applied only to 

 such planted tracts as are not separated by fields or fences, and 

 the different divisions of such woods, whether distinguished 

 by age or species, should be indicated in the register by letters 

 of the alphabet, but popular local names need not be omitted. 

 This register should begin with a descriptive reference table 

 or index, setting forth the number and name of the wood, its 

 extent, elevation, aspect, number of divisions, soil and forma- 

 tion, and record in the register ; and to each wood should be 

 alloted a sufficient number of pages in the register book for the 

 entry of further particulars, in a concise form, showing the age 

 and extent of each division, what it consists of, when thinned 

 or cut down, how the produce was disposed of, and the value 

 received, etc., as shown in accompanying examples. 



