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‘As a general remark it may be said that the forest 
cultivation here, as is so often the case with plantings 
of trees in this country, ‘has also suffered and been 
damaged by mischievous and evil-minded persons. Re- 
peatedly trees have been broken and the bark fleeced off ; 
sometimes even the trees have been torn up by the roots 
and thrown on the field, consequently it was necessary to 
put up warnings against violence and damaging the 
forest plantings, and this has led to some improvement in 
this respect. 
‘In conclusion, I desire to state some results gained by 
experience in the eight years’ forest cultivation which has 
been carried on at this place. The fir seed sowed has given 
better results than pine seed, and this again better than 
larch seed. 
‘In sowing the different kinds of seed they must be 
mixed with different kinds of common “rudesod ;” and 
in the mixing fir must be the predominating sort, as a 
mreans of avoiding bare spots and obtaining more even 
growth. 
‘In plantings of pine, the plants, four years old, which 
have been transplanted, give a better result than younger 
ones, in ordinary hole plantings. 
‘Larch seed ought to be sown as early in the spring as 
possible on account of its early budding. 
‘In planting the better sorts of foliaceous trees, such as 
oak, elm, maple, beach, &c., it is under similar favourable 
circumstances safer to choose hilly than low land, thus 
avoiding damage by frost. Dunbeach (Betula oderata) can, 
however, without any risk, be planted in low-lying places 
and in damp moist land.’ 
With this report there was supplied to me a document 
issued by the Budget Committee in 1872 entitulated Ved 
Kommende Skovsagen, in one of which are described a 
number of estates on forest lands about to be purchased 
on behalf of Government ; and in another is given the staff 
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