. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental ks, stuntedor abandoned, and only fit for fuel, might in a fewyears be transformed into trees of great value ; and, ifall who prune may not themselves find their reward,they can at least have the satisfaction of doing some-thing to benefit another generation. Fig. 9. — ConJition of the stumpat the end of the fifth year. 1 Fiitaie sur tailUs, a term which is without equivalent in the Eng-lish language, is applied in France to a very common system offorest management. It consists in allowing a certain number ofselected trees in a plantation t
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental ks, stuntedor abandoned, and only fit for fuel, might in a fewyears be transformed into trees of great value ; and, ifall who prune may not themselves find their reward,they can at least have the satisfaction of doing some-thing to benefit another generation. Fig. 9. — ConJition of the stumpat the end of the fifth year. 1 Fiitaie sur tailUs, a term which is without equivalent in the Eng-lish language, is applied in France to a very common system offorest management. It consists in allowing a certain number ofselected trees in a plantation to grow to maturity, while the remainderis treated as coppice, or sprout land, and cut over at stated periods,varying from ten to fifty years, according to the nature of the soil orthe necessity or wishes of tlie proprietor. The trees left to reachmaturity are called reserves, and are intended to furnish largetimber for purposes of construction. These, of course, receive thegreatest care and most careful pruning. c. s. s. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 15. Fig. 10. — Condition of the stumpat the end of the tenth year. Advantage of increasing the Number of ReserveTrees. — In addition to the advantages which eachindividual tree may derivefrom the method of pruningrecommended in this treatise,there is a possibility of add-ing, and, in fact, doubling thenumber of reserve trees in aplantation without interfer-ing with the coppice or grow-ing sprouts which surroundthem. If it can be j)roved that the number of timber treesmay be doubled in a plantation by good management,and that the value of indi-vidual trees scattered throughthe fields aiid along the road-sides may be wonderfully in-creased, it is easy to under-stand that a land-owner maygreatly benefit himself andadd to the wealth of hiscountry by adopting suchmethods. That pruning can accom-plish the results which are claimed for it is found inthe fact that trees treated by the rational systemproposed grow more vigorously and retain
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