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reduced demands for small underwood, so many landowners 
are no longer attending to their coppices-with-standards, and 
either allow the underwood to be destroyed by rabbits, or root 
it up, fell their standards, and convert the area into coniferous 
woods. By lengthening the rotation for the underwood, 
making thinnings in it every five or six years, and planting 
a number of oak, ash, and larch saplings, whenever the 
underwood is felled, this valuable property might be greatly 
improved and made to yield from 30s. to 21. per acre annually 
when once the gradation of ages of the standards is established. 
A good example of this wise treatment may be seen at 
Blackmoor, near Woolmer Forest, the property of the Earl 
of Selborne, the working-plan for which was made by 
Dr. Nisbet. 
Since the Show closed, the Commissioners of Woods and 
Forests have published another working-plan, prepared by 
Dr. Schlich, C.I.E., F.R.S., for Alice Holt Wood, in Hampshire. 
This action of theirs, in submitting the Crown Woods to 
carefully prepared working-plans, besides entailing eventually 
a steady and enhanced revenue, will render the woods so treated 
excellent models for neighbouring landowners ; and such 
regularly treated woodlands will eventually form training 
grounds for young foresters who are being educated for 
service in India and our Colonies. It would be well if the 
interesting Crown coppice-with-standards of Princes Coverts, 
near Esher, in Surrey, that was originally planted by the 
Duke of Coburg, husband of Princess Charlotte, and afterwards 
the first King of the Belgians, were put under a regular 
working-plan. The 1,200 acres of oak woods in the Windsor 
Forest should also be managed on scientific principles, and 
they would then serve a truly national purpose. How can 
forestry be properly taught in the British Isles if there is 
not a single regular forest of oak — our principal native forest 
tree — where the student can see all ages of oaks, from seedlings 
to mature trees ? In this connection, the exhibit by the Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester, of the plan of the well- 
managed Oakley woods, available (by Lord Bathurst’s consent) 
for instructional purposes by the students, was highly 
interesting. The College also showed the working-plan map 
of a German forest and some tree-measuring and other 
implements. 
The President of the Royal English Arboricultural Society 
exhibited a series of twenty large photographs, showing, 
among other subjects, that serious damage by windfall occurs 
on the Continent as well as in Britain, although this has been 
represented as an insuperable obstacle to extensive planting 
in the Highlands ; also the splendid growth of Sessile oak, 
