ABSTRACT KEPOET 1864. 207 



Crown lands. — In the departments ■where the State possesses bare moun- 

 tain territory, the Forest Administration has set the example of rehoisement 

 by sowing or planting every year areas more or less considerable. 1,834 

 hectares 70 ares of this kind of ground has been rewooded in 1864. 



It is chiefly in the department of Ari6ge that the restockings of this 

 kind have taken place during several years with remarkable success. 

 Altogether the reboisements facidtatifs of every class, in 1864, covered 4,743 

 hectares 90 ares. 



B. Beboisements Obligatoires, or Unjoined Beboisements. 



At the end of 1864 the number of projected enjoined reboisements 

 were 322, covering a total extent of 168,300 ares. Of this number, 84, 

 covering 61,814 hectares, have been at the same time subjects of a decree 

 declaring them to be of public utility. 



In the course of the same year, works have been executed in 65 p6ri- 

 mfetres. These works have consisted of reboisements properly so called, the 

 keeping up of reboisements effected in preceding years, sowings or planta- 

 tions of herbs or bushes, construction of dams, lopping trees, and enclosures. 

 These have cost 249,000 francs. 



The Government in 1864 has only had recourse to expropriations in 

 the cases of two tracts of ground, extending to 25 hectares, for which the 

 price paid amounted to 9,476 francs 47 centimes. 



I It is with the utmost reluctance that Government makes use of the 

 privilege accorded by the 2nd paragraph of Art. 7 of the law of 28th July 

 1860. Since the law has come into operation, there have only occun-ed some 

 three cases in which it was needful in the public interest to proceed to ex- 

 propriation. 



C. Conferences. 



Conferences held in cantons to determine what lands should be re- 

 planted have continued to discharge this duty in a manner the most 

 satisfactory. 



D. Bisumi of Work executed in 1864. 



The total sum of reboisements effected in 1864 embraces an area of 

 12,193 hectares 32 ares. 



E. Kinds and quantities of Seeds and Plants used in 1864, «*»«^ way* m 

 which they have been apportioned. 



Of the 12,193 hectares 32 ares rewooded in 1864, 7632 hectares 44 ares 

 have been sown with seed ; and 4559 hectares 88 ares have been planted. 



The principal kinds of trees thus used have been, as in years proceeding, 

 le pin sylvestre, or Scotch fir ; Vepic'ea, or Norway fir ; le pin maritime, or 

 maritime pine ; le mellze, or larch ; le pin noir d'Autriche, or Austrian pine ; 

 le pin laricio, or Corsican pine ; le pin d, crockets, or Mugho pine ; le sapin, 

 or silver fir ; le chene, or oak ; le chdtaigner, or chesnut ; le hetre, or beech ; 

 lefrHe, or ash. It is with the greatest reserve that attempts have been 

 made to introduce other kinds of tree, which are not indigenous, in such 

 districts as have been rewooded. 



Of the 161,260 kilogrammes of seed used in 1864, 137,028 kilogrammes 

 have been supplied by secheries domamials. But the Administration has 

 not fowd any great advantage in preparing their own seeds. 



