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Planting plan.— A detailed scheme for forest planting on 

 a given area. 



Pollard metUod.— In this method the exploitable matenal 

 is obtained by periodically pollarding the trees constituting 

 the crop, regeneration being obtained from shoots produced 

 at the top of the tree. 



Provisional or temporary method of treatment.— Operations to 

 which the existing crop is subjected for a time so as to bring 

 it to the condition requisite for the application of a new 

 method of treatment. See Improvement fellings ; Conver- 

 sions ; Transformations. The length of time required in order 

 to constitute the forest according to the normal condition ia 

 sometimes called a preparatory period. 



Regular method— ^ee Method of successive regeneration, 

 fellings. 



Restorations.— Operations undertaken in order to recon- 

 stitute or improve the forest crop without altering the method, 

 of treatment or the mode of reproduction. 



Selection method.— Or regeneration fellings by the selection 

 method. Removing in a methodical manner, in accordance 

 with sylvicultural requirements so as not to exceed the 

 possibility, the exploitable trees in a forest by felling them 

 here and there, either singly or in groups. 



Selection coppice method.— Cutting periodically the strongest 

 shoots, or those exceeding certain prescribed dimensions, out 

 of each coppice clump. The regeneration felling in this 

 method may be called "Selection coppice fellings." 



Severance felling-.— A cleared strip of varying breadth by 

 which two woods are separated in the general direction of, 

 the cuttings, at a place where, some time after, regular fell- 

 ings are to commence. 



Simple coppice method.— The formation by means of stool 

 and root-shoots of a forest crop which is periodically removed 

 by clear felling. Ihe regeneration fellings in this method 

 are called coppice fellings. 



Storej ed Forest Metbod.— Forming a crop of stems of different 

 ages, the crowns of which are arranged in tiers, the difference 

 in age between the trees of each consecutive tier being equal 

 to the length of the felling rotation. The method differs 

 from that of coppice with standards, because regeneratiou 

 is obtained principally by seed instead of by stool-shcots. 



