CONTENTS, 



I^OVEMBER. 



Editorial Notes — " "What will they do witii them?" — In an African Forest — Agri- 

 cultiu'al Science Teaching — The Kock Garden — Practical Lessons from Jutland — 

 Australian Rainfall — Recent Plant Introductions — Sir John Lubhock on Foresters' 

 Kducation — The Management of Plantations in Cumberland — England as a Market 

 • Jarden — More Tree-Planting in Edinburgh — The Travelling Forester in Asia — Tree- 

 Planting in London and Sau Francisco — The English Land Jlarket — Plants suitable for 

 Room Culture — The National Footpath Preservation Society — The Relations of Wood- 

 lands to Animal Life — Forest Management in Canada — Exhibition Intelligence : The 

 International Forestry Exhibition ; International Exhibition, 1885 ; The American 

 Forestry Congi-ess — Meteorology — The Entomologist — Letters to the Editor : Effects 

 of Lightning on Trees — Forest "Work for the Month: England ; Scotland ; Wales ; 

 Ireland — Obituary : The Late Mr. George IJentham ; The Late Isaac Anderson Henry 

 — Reviews of Books : Forestry in the Mining Districts of the Ural Mountains in 

 Eastern Russia ; Newfoundland the Oldest British Colony ; Revista de Montes ; The 

 Florist and Pomologist, and Suburbau Gardener ; The Indian Forester ; The Gardener's 

 ilouthly and Horticulturist— Sales : Sale of Timber at Darnaway — Chips, . pp. 4-80 



DECEMBER. 



Editorial Notes — Forestry in Europe and America — Notes on Osier-Beds in Geilen- 

 kirchen — Indian Reports — Facts about Planting on Moors — The Travelling Forester — 

 Influence of Geological Formation on Forest Growths in New Brunswick — A Gloucester 

 Jam Farm— The Fall of the Leaf— The Date Palm— An October Walk in Norway— 

 About City Sylviculture — On the Aridity of Spain — Ancient Woods in the Hebrides : 

 Colonsay and Oronsay — Hemlock Bark — The Destruction of Forests — Edinburgh News 

 Notes — Proposed School of Forestry in Edinburgh — Meteorology: Eucalypts and 

 other Exotics as Open-air Plants, etc. — The Entomologist — Preservation of Canadian 

 Timber— Obituary : The Late Alexander Shearer — Letters to the Editor : Projected 

 School of Forestry in Edinburgh ; New Use of Wood ; The Forestry Exhibition and 

 City Sylviculture — Reviews of Books ; The Forest Flora of South Australia ; The 

 Botanical Atlas ; Annual Progress Report upon State Forest Administration in South 

 Australia for the Year 1883-84 ; The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England ; Allgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitnng ; British Apples ; Nursery Season's 

 Catalogues for 1884-85— Forest Work for the Month: England; Scotland; Wales- 

 Sales: Annual Timber Sale, Holkam Park, Norfolk, etc. — Legal: Decision Interesting 

 to Estate Managers— Chips, pp. 83-160 



JANUARY. 



Editorial Notes — The Giants of Chapidtepec — British Apples, and Fruit-Growing for 

 Profit — The Administration of French State Forests — On the Improvement of Woods 

 and Plantations, also a Tract of Moorland upon an Estate in the North of England — 

 Future Supplies of Timber from Abroad — The Travelling Forester — The English 

 Arboricultural Society — Insectivorous Plants — Sand-Plains of Belgium and Sand-Dunes 

 of Holland- Tlie "Loco" AVced — Bark-Stripping and TindxT- Felling— The Rock 

 Garden — The Forest Flora of Carnarvonshire — In the Forests of Northern AVisconsin 

 — Sylvan Features of South-West Carmarthenshire — The Beauties of British Trees — 

 Legal : An Arbitrator and his Award — Exhibition Intelligence : The International 

 Forestry Exliibition : Essay and Report Awards — Meteorology ; From the Top of Ben 

 Nevis — The Entomologist — Reviews of Books : Sylviculture : The Principles of Rearing 

 Wood Plants in the Forest ; Progress Report of Forest Administration in the Punjab 

 for 1883-84 ; Origin of Cultivated Plants ; Nursery Season's Catalogues — Letters to 

 the Editor : About Lightning on Trees ; What is the most Durable Stake ? Wanted, 

 a Cure for AVire- Worms ; AVorking-Men's Lectures on Forest Science : A Proposal ; 

 Hattou and Harvey's "Newfoundland" — Forest AVork for the Month : England ; Scot- 

 land ; AVales— Chips, pp. 163-240 



