BRITAIN’S HARDWOOD TREES
.Afforestation has been going on extensively in Britain for some years, but it is largely soft woods which are being planted, and some anxiety is now felt lest the hardwood trees, such as oak. ash mid beech, should be allowed to disappear. They take a longer time to mature than the other varieties so that, when planting is carried out with a view to the cutting and selling of timber later on. the softwoods are preferred. A London journal says: This is a pity, because it is these trees which have given our woodlands their, cnaracteristic beauty in the past, and we can ill-afford to lose them. Also,, they encourage bird life much more than pines, larches or firs. It is being .suggested that there should bo a replanting law. providing that whenever a tree is felled, a number of young ones should be planted in its piner. Such a law is in force in Norway. Sweden and Denmark, where from three to five trees must be planted for each cut down.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 17
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175BRITAIN’S HARDWOOD TREES Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 17
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