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THE SUPPL\ OF RESIN. 
by the market value at Bordeaux, from whence, as well as from La Teste 
and Bayonne, the largest supplies of this article are drawn. 
The French Government have recently ordered extensive plantations 
of pine to be formed on the coast of Arvert, near La Tremblade, as well 
as on the Isle of Oleron, and in the course of a few years there is reason 
to expect that this department will be enabled to vie, to a certain ex- 
tent, with the Landes in the production of resin. 
Report oy Consul Smallwood, Corsica. — The forest most productive 
of resin in Corsica at present is that of Valdoniello, situate in the aron- 
dissement of Calvi. It is cultivated by MM. Chaton and Co., and is 
expected to yield this season 2,500 quintaux metriques of resin. 
The forests of Melo and L'Ambuste, situate in the arrondissement 
of Corte, are cultivated by MM. Decheneux, Cadet, and Co., and produce 
annually 1,200 quintaux metriques of resin. 
Small tracts of the Forests of Asco, Pineto, and Serraggio, situate in 
the arrondissement of Corte, and cultivated by M. Kenaud, yield annu- 
ally 800 quintaux m6triques of resin. 
The Forest of Rostonica, situate in the arrondissement of Corte, and 
cultivated by M. Castelli Pochon, produces yearly 400 quintaux metriques 
of resin. 
In the arrondissement of Ajaccio a cultivator offers this season 200 
quintaux metriques of resin. 
Abstract. 
Site and Name of Forest. 
Total Quantities. 
French weight. 
English weight. 
Calvi. Valdoniello 
Corte. Melo and L'Ambuste 
„ Asco, Pineto, Serraggio 
„ Rostonica 
Ajaccio 
Total .... 
Quintaux. 
2,500 
1,200 
800 
400 
200 
Tons. 
246 
118 
79 
39 
18 
5,100 
500 
Additional tracts of forests are being brought into cultivation for 
resin. Some cultivators are about to subject the Red Larix to double 
tapping, wherefrom a considerable increase in the supply of resin is 
expected ; and it may not be unreasonable to anticipate that next season 
the quantity of resin produced in Corsica will not fall short of from 
700 to 800 tons. 
The superiority of the sample of resin from the Forest of Valdoniello 
may be accounted for from the improved treatment of the tree adopted 
in the forests of the arrondissement of Calvi by experienced cultivators 
from the French u Landes " and " Dunes " between the Gironde and 
Bordeaux, who have introduced the process of receiving the resin from 
