The Forests of Italy and Some Recent Trends

Abstract

The article describes the composition and history of the forests of Italy and then goes on to discuss the recent progress. made in that country in the field of railing fast growing species or, as they call it in Italian, trees with "rapido accrtscimento", i.e., the cultivation of trees with rapid increment. The author, who had been on a Italy tour of Italy spent six useful and instructive months in that country studying the techniques of raising plantations of fast growing species, especially poplars in the Po Valley, Conifers on the Alps and Appennines in the North and Eucalypts in the South.