Our forests and woodlands . plar and allele(which are all of them hospitable trees, for any-thing thrives under their shades)^ should havebeen so completely lost sight of in BritishForestry since the time of the Restoration. Prob-ably very few of the plantations of any sort madeduring the last century have shown so many asthe 4840 plants per acre recommended even forquick-growing poplars by Evelyn. And this isjust one of the principal causes, along with injudi-cious and premature thinning, why all our wood-land crops—hardwood, softwood, and coniferous—have neither been so remunerative in the p
Our forests and woodlands . plar and allele(which are all of them hospitable trees, for any-thing thrives under their shades)^ should havebeen so completely lost sight of in BritishForestry since the time of the Restoration. Prob-ably very few of the plantations of any sort madeduring the last century have shown so many asthe 4840 plants per acre recommended even forquick-growing poplars by Evelyn. And this isjust one of the principal causes, along with injudi-cious and premature thinning, why all our wood-land crops—hardwood, softwood, and coniferous—have neither been so remunerative in the pastas they ought to have been, nor are so well quali-fied to yield a class of wood best supplying therequirements of the market in the present, as theyshould now be doing. But this fact must receivegeneral recognition before it can be hoped thatsteps will be taken to remedy the defects arisingtherefrom, and to make Forestry more remunera-tive and better able to supply the wants of theBritish timber market in the CHAPTER VII Among the Pines & Firs^ & in the Larch Plantations At one time, no doubt, a very considerableportion of the British Isles was covered by wood-lands of Scots pine, our only indigenous conifer,still commonly called by its Anglo-Saxon name offuhr or fir. The extent of these primeval woodsand the method of their destruction, havingalready been referred to in the first two chapters,need not again be touched on. But in Holin-sheds time there were still large tracts underpine, which have now mostly been cleared away. The firre, frankincense, and pine, we do not altogether want, especiallie the firre, whereof we 203 204 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS have some store in Chatleie moore in Darbishire,Shropshire, Andernesse, and a mosse neere Man-chester, not far from Leicesters house : althoughthat in time past not only all Lancastershire, buta great part of the coast betweene Chester andthe Solwe were well stored/ At a later datemuch attention was given to the
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