BRITAIN'S REGIMENTED TREES: The Forestry Commission's Work at Thetford Chase Reflects the New Trend
... (Vir traditional hardwoods are being replaced by regimented green-black forests of foreign soft woods such as Sitka spruce, Japanese and European larch, Norwegian spruce and Corsican pine. This information is contained in a report of fifty Forestry Commissioners who have been making a survey of Britain's 4,500,000,000 trees. To-day, home-grown hard woods are needed only for making piles, ...