On the Advantages of Underplanting the Light-Demanding, Thinly-Foliaged Spices of Forest Trees (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On the Advantages of Underplanting the Light-Demanding, Thinly-Foliaged Spices of Forest Trees

There are, however, two distinct methods in which the measure can practically be carried out. The undergrowth may have solely the object of temporarily retaining or improving the productive capacity Of the soil; or it may be formed with the intention of allowing it to grow up and ultimately form a portion of the crop which is to be harvested in its full maturity at the end of the period of rotation. In the latter case it also affords the sylviculturist the opportunity Of forming mixed instead of pure forests for the succeeding crop, and thereby obtaining a class of forest which certainly needs more attention in the way of tending, but has many solid advantages over pure forests in yielding larger crops of greater technical value, and in comparative immunity from the attacks of insect enemies and of fungoid diseases?

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