Schlich's Manual of forestry . ked is to cut out as quickly as possible all diseasedlarches and to underplant with beech, thus preservinghealthy conditions for the further development of theremaining trees. Instead of beech, such woods may be under-planted with silver fir or spruce, whenever the latter are likelyto give better financial results. Douglas fir has also been triedand ought to do well, since the remaining larches will giveit just that shelter which the leading shoots of the Douglasfir so much require. Even Weymouth pine may be used forthis purpose. The author has under-planted Scot
Schlich's Manual of forestry . ked is to cut out as quickly as possible all diseasedlarches and to underplant with beech, thus preservinghealthy conditions for the further development of theremaining trees. Instead of beech, such woods may be under-planted with silver fir or spruce, whenever the latter are likelyto give better financial results. Douglas fir has also been triedand ought to do well, since the remaining larches will giveit just that shelter which the leading shoots of the Douglasfir so much require. Even Weymouth pine may be used forthis purpose. The author has under-planted Scotch pinewith that tree, and the results are everything that can bedesired. If the Weymouth pine does well under Scotch pine,it will do still better under larch, as that tree gives a lightercover than the Scotch pine. Mr. Munro Ferguson, the pioneerof rational forestry in Scotland, has, at Novar, underplantedlarch at the age of sixteen to twenty years with Douglas fir,Tsmja Merteiisiana, TJtiija gigantea, Cnpressiis Tjansoniana,. THE FOREST OF DEAN : AX OBJECT LESSON. 231 Abies grandis and Pieea Sitchensis vfith. success. Heraises the larch pure, and cuts out all diseased trees beforeunderplanting, leaving from 300 to 500 of the best larch. On the Continent, the Scotch pine is also underplanted withbeech, as the accompanying illustration will show. In thisway, the finest Scotch pine is produced worth a shilling a footand more. 4. TJie Forest of Dean : An Object Lesson. In the previous paragraphs on The Production of High-class Oak, Ash and Larch Timber, special attention has beendrawn to the importance of raising these light-demandingand thin-crowned timber-trees in mixture with a full-crowned,shade-bearing species, such as beech or silver fir. Thismethod of rearing valuable trees has for its principal objectto secure a continued fertility of the soil. As some readersmay raise the cry of theoretical speculation —a cry sofrequently heard, when people do not understand a
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