THE UNIFORM OB NORMAL METHOD. 



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over successive narrow strips into which the area may be 

 divided, or (iv) merely remove a tree or two without any order 

 from scattered points all over the area. This gives us four more 

 methods of natural regeneration by seed, which may be designated 

 respectively the uniform, the group, the strip, and the jardinage 

 methods. In the first three of these methods the entire original crop 

 ultimately disappears within a definite limited number of years, 

 whereas in the last there is never any point of time when that 

 crop can be said to have ceased to exist and to have been com- 

 pletely replaced by a new generation. 



The various methods of natural regeneration by seed, as ex- 

 plained above, may be exhibited synoptically thus — 



Over the entire 1 ^ 



f > UNIFORM OR NORMAL METHOD .. 1 



area ol crop J 



Only over individu-1 

 al component homo- | 



geneous groups, each )■ GROUP method ... 2 



group being treated | 

 on its own merits. J 



Successively over \ 

 long narrow strips (^ „ 



into which the forest C ••• 6 



-is divided. ) 



D5 



a 



1-5 



■< 



■ H 

 < 



'a 



03 



Effected without any uni-^ 

 formity whatsoever, a tree 

 or two being removed from 

 various scattered points all 

 over the area in which new 

 seedKngs are desired. 



Over wide areas 



In long narrow strips . 



> JARDINAGE 



.. 4 



METHOD OF CLEARnTGS . . 5 

 METHOD OF CLEARED LINES 6 



... 7 



Formmg mere gaps or ) „ 



11 ■ A^ f 4. > WELL METHOD 



L wells m the forest J 



SECTION IV. 



The uniform or normal method. 



In this method each operation of the regeneration series is 

 carried out more or less uniformly and simultaneously over the 

 whole of a crop, the result sought being its replacement by a 

 young generation presenting a general uniformity of age, density 

 and composition. Hence the first name given to the method in 



