o88 HEGBNHEATrOlS' BV COPPICE'. 



tree, the roots* in the grouiieJ should be ■wousded' <5r Broken 6y 

 running a strong plough through the soil or by driving picks or" 

 grubbing axes into it at various points. If necessaty, roots may" 

 be exposed and wounded and thfen oovere(S up again with good 

 soft soil. As the devfelopHfent of suckers rfequirfes a considerable* 

 amount of root-aeration, very often, especially in- heavily grazed- 

 forest, it will be- found that it is the hardness ofthte soil at the' 

 surface that interferes with successful reproduction } in that case,, 

 breaking up this superficial crust may be the only measure re- 

 quired.. 



6. Season for cuitiwg: 



Here too the best .time for felHng the trees is the season of 

 Vegetative repose.- But, contrary to what vre have seen obtains- 

 in regard to exploitation' for' stool-shoots, the' abundance and' 

 vigour' of the sucker reproduction' will be gl-eater, the earlier in 

 that season the felKng takes place, for' the- longer the interval of 

 time between- the' removal of the- aerial portion' of a tree and the 

 actual springing up of the suckers is, the greater will be the number' 

 of new adventitious buds able to form- on the' roots.. And the most 

 favourable moment for' felling 'will generally occur' immediately' 

 after the cessation of vegetative acti'vity, while the soil is stiU- 

 warm and mtoist enough for the necessary chemical changes, 

 resulting in the formation of new buds, to take place. Never- 

 theless, if the season of repose is very long and there is reason 

 to fear that severe* protracted drought will kill many of the 

 roots, the felhng must be delayed until near the end of the" 

 season. 



7.- Tfe location of tJie- coupes- and the presence of stores. 



The remarks made under these two heads in the preceding; 

 Section hold good herfi without any modification.- 



SECTION III. 



Compaxati'vre value of stool-shoots and root-suckers. 



In the first place, suckers may be produced from almost any point 

 of the area within which the roots of the parent tree have spread ; 

 whereas stool-shoots, it is superfluous to say, cannot, at the outside, 

 stand more than 3-4 feet apart from each other. Hence (1) almost 

 every sucker produced has sufficient room to grow up into a pole, 

 if not into a formed tree, whereas on the very largest stool, even if 

 it has been cut inside the ground, hardly half a dozen shoots can 



