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THERE is probably no more striking example of the assistance which the botanist, and more especially the forest botanist, can nder the forester than that afforded by the history of the larch canker in Britain. The introduction of the European species of larch (Larix europcea) in the eighteenth century was followed by plantings, for the time, on a considerable scale. The fact that, owing to the durability and value of the wood, all sizes from an early age (e.g. for sheep-net stakes) are utilisable, resulted in the species being planted without reference to the kinds of soil it required, or, as important, in the absence of any working knowledge of the necessary thinnings which the young plantations required. Old ideas and opinions, founded on premises which lack the necessary scientific study of facts upon the ground, are difficult to eradicate.
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Larch Canker in Britain. Nature 120, 935–936 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120935a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120935a0