English Timber
Owners of country property are continually asking o? wondering how they may find a market for felled or fallen timber ; and often receive no satisfactory answer. It is often difficult to buy as well as to sell English timber, even elm. An excellent attempt to put an end to this anomaly is being made in the South of England. A home-grown timber marketing organization has been formed among landowners ; and the members of the Surrey, Sussex and Kent group already number over a hundred and twenty. These counties have the advantage of the example of such admirable practical foresters as Lord Camden in Kent (who has been afforesting with oak for posterity while he develops a coppice industry in Spanish chestnut), and Sir George Courthope in East Sussex, where his oak woods have a long and glorious history, maintained and indeed enhanced in recent years. English timber has not earned its deserts for a great many years ; and half the owners of it have failed to realize the inherent value of the common woods, especially sycamore and ash and elm.
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