No. 1, July, 1920] FORESTRY 59 



FOREST BOTANY AND FORESTRY 



Raphael Zon, Editor 

 J. V. Bofmann, Assistant Editor 



:;s"). A i i>\i: \, \ i. . ! i: C. Cultivation and tapping of Castilloa rubber in the Philippines. 

 Philippine Agric. 7: 271-307. 1919. — The author reports observations and experiments on 

 trees of Castilloa elastica in a plantation in Davao, Mindanao, where conditions are favorable 

 for this plant. Discussions are given of methods of cultivation, diseases and i^ht re- 



quirements, grow Hi rates, variations in amount and quality of rubber, improvement by selec- 

 tion, spacing, and tapping methods. — S. F. Trelease. 



380. Anonymous. The cultivation of basket willows. Jour. Bd. Agric. Great Britain 

 25: 1424-1432. 1919. 



387. Anonymous. Ninety-seventh report of the commissioners of His Majesty's woods, 

 forests and land revenues, dated 27 June, 1919. 5-> p. London, England. 1919. — A statistical 

 report on these subjects with brief comments and explanations. Exclusive of land let for 

 building purposes, foreshores and mineral rights, the Crown property in charge of the Com- 

 missioners includes about 350,000 acres, of which about 09,554 acres are under the growth of 

 timber. Parts of these woodlands are subject to common rights, and, in addition, 126,646 

 acres of unenclosed wastes are subject to common rights. The total gross income for the 

 year was £1,115,185 and the expenditure £367, 561. For the preceding year these figures were 

 £1,057,190 and £364,430, respectively. In order to supply in part the nation's needs for 

 railway sleepers (crossties),pitwood, etc., thus reducing timber imports, extensive felling and 

 sawing operations were continued in several of the Crown forests, especially in the New For- 

 est, and large quantities of timber were sold to the Controller of Timber Supplies and others. 

 To provide for planting the areas of woodland cleared during the war (and also for the affor- 

 estation of other areas), over 44 millions of plants have been raised from seed sown in 1915, 

 1916, and 1917. About two million surplus plants available last autumn, after meeting the 

 immediate Crown requirements, were disposed of, principally to nurserymen at estimated 

 cost prices, under conditions restricting the price to be charged by them on resale to land- 

 owners a # nd others. The 1918 seed crop was a very poor one, but notwithstanding this, further 

 large quantities of seed were purchased abroad and a considerable amount of larch and Scotch 

 pine seed was collected at home. Steps were taken to replant parts of the areas recently felled, 

 but the work was restricted by the shortage of labor. The school for foresters or woodmen 

 students at Parkend (Dean Forest), which was extended to accommodate a larger number 

 of students, and which had been temporarily closed by the war, was reopened February 20, 

 1919. It is intended to use Dean Forest and the adjoining woodlands of Highmeadow, Abbots- 

 wood and Clearwell as a forestry demonstration area whenever the school for forest s:udents, 

 near Speech House, is developed. — E. R. Hodson. 



3S8. Anonymous. [Rev. of: Mi'ller. Uber die kursachsische Oberforst- und Wild- 

 meisterei im Erzgebirge. (The forest and game administration in the Erzgebirge under the 

 Electorate of Saxony.) Tharandter Forstl. Jahrb. 1917: 26. Also 1918: 91, 342.; Forstl. 

 Rundschau 20: 10-12. 1919. — Form of organization of forest and game administration, offi- 

 cials and their duties, regulations and methods, during the period 1500 to 1S00. — F. S. Bah r. 



389. Anonymous. Better packages and how to know them. Sci. Amer. 120: 546, 559-560. 

 4 fig. 1919. — Descriptive of wooden boxes and methods of testing their strength.— Chas. H. 

 Otis. 



390. Anonymous. Camphor. Agric. News [Barbados] 18: 3S5. 1919. — The author, after 

 noticing the camphor shortage in the United States and the present high prices ruling for the 

 product, passes on to a discussion of the different kinds of camphor trees and the degree of 

 success which has attended the cultivation of camphor in different countries. Mention is 

 made of trials in the West Indies, particularly in Dominica and Trinidad where camphor 

 trees are being planted as windbreaks and hedges. — J. S. Dash. 



