Excerpt from Forest Plantations at Biltmore, North Carolina If all this planting were summed up on the basis of area planted, the total might be as high as acres, though this can never be more than a rough estimate because so few traces remain of the plant ings that failed. Some early failures, inevitable because of the new ness of the work in this region, occasioned considerable replanting. In addition, stands of native hardwoods were to some extent under planted. The records Of these operations obscure the facts as to total area planted, but it is probable that well-marked stands of planted timber never covered more than acres in the estate. Stands which have been cut to make way for agriculture or were on land which has since been separated from the estate are not considered in this publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The forest plantations in the Biltmore Estate, near Biltmore and Asheville, N.C., represent one of the earliest large-scale reforestation projects under private initiative in this country. Planting and seed-sowing operations were begun there about 40 years ago, in 1890, and the work was continued until about 1911. The resulting stands present an excellent opportunity to study the success or failure of forest planting with a large number of species in this part of the southern Appalachian region.