22 THE RE-AFFORESTATION OF HAINHAULT.
protection can be seen among the new plantations on Cabin Hill.
Gorse and Broom have been sown and fenced till maturity is
reached. As soon as the fence is removed the cattle
devour and destroy the Broom, leaving the Gorse, except where
it happens that the Broom has come up in the middle of a gorse-
patch in which it finds complete security and raises its mass of
golden bloom high above its protector.
Saplings and Inoculation.—Some of the trees planted in the
ploughed patches were nursery grown, and some were saplings
taken from the forest. The latter are doing better, probably
FlG. 4. — CLUMPS OF GORSE AND BROOM ; THE BROOM DESTROYED BY CATTT.E,
EXCEPT WHERE IT HAS SPRUNG UP WITHIN A CLUMP OF GORSE.
owing to the time taken in transplanting being too short for any
of the roots to die, partly to the larger amount of soil brought
with them, and partly to the transplanting being from land in
poorer into land in better heart, instead of vice versa. But there
is another great advantage in planting saplings from the forest,
that with the soil round the roots is brought some of the forest
turf and forest seeds, so that a kind of inoculation of the soil of
the plantations is being effected. A remarkable example of the
success of laying down a field to grass by inoculation as against
sowing can be seen at Thrift Hall, Theydon Bois, where after
20 or 30 years a marked difference in the turf is still visible.