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and Willow cuttings may also be used in the same way 

 or with l.)eans. 



Natural Reseeding of the land is almost the only practi- 

 cal mean^ of restocking cheap forest land, as other methods 

 are too expensive. It generally takes place readily, and 

 the onljr reason why it is not more successful is the fre- 

 quent destruction of the young seedlings by fires and 

 cattle. The small crooked branching Pine and other 



Fig. 1.3. — A fine young growth of Norway Spruce (Picea excelsa) in 

 the forest garden of the "Giessen Forestry School" in Hessen, 

 Germany. A good illustration of the results of regeneration by 

 planting seedlings. 



seeding trees that are always left by lumbermen in their 

 operations here, and generally considered worthless, per- 

 form a very important work in producing seed, and it is 

 a pity that there are not more such trees left to produce 

 seed for our cut-over lands. When such trees escape 



