80 SYLVICULTURE IN LA SOLOGNE. 



maritime pine playing an important part ; but it is a subordinate 

 rdle. It is employed here not as the one important culture, but as a 

 means of preparing the soil for the culture of some of the poorer of 

 the cereals, or as a manure to other trees, for the growth of which it 

 has to make way, having secured its purpose, and in doing so 

 exhausted its growth. In this respect, as in others, the Landes of 

 Gascony and the Landes of La Sologne differ greatly ; and thus a 

 fuller study of these, more especially in particulars in which they 

 differ from each other, may be desirable. 



