EDITORIAL NOTES. [Nov. 



Editorial Notes. 



If the tuples " Forestry " undertook to lay before the public were 

 previously unrepresented by tlie press, it can on the completion of 

 a seven years' apprenticeship look with satisfaction on their present 

 prominence. A British School of Forestry, the lieplanting of Ireland, 

 and Colonial "Wood Conservancy, are stirring questions of the time. 

 Indeed, Tree-planting versus CJraiu-growing is tlie marked feature of 

 the coming revolution in the management of land. Books on forestrv 

 now form considerable items in publishers' catalogues. If then there 

 was need for our start, it will be our province to try to occupy even 

 more deservingly the ever-widening field. 



Whilst pleading for oral instruction on liehalf of the j'oung 

 forester, we were first to give him special teaching through the 

 press, and we do not propose to vacate the position. Material of 

 permanent educational value will continue to appear in these pages. 

 And, indeed, the programme of our greatest Forestry Schools may 

 suggest the scope and limits of such material. Correspondence and 

 (juestions from earnest students are solicited. 



Dming the last three months, our name has been much iu the 

 mouths of that general public which so largely enjoyed the benefits 

 of the International Forestry E.xhibition. The building in which 

 much of that interest was concentrated, is now dismantled. But 

 Forestry hopes to deepen a permanent interest in the tojjics it 

 illustrated, as well as in others of special interest to lauded 

 proprietors and woodmen. 



After the playing of the Queen's anthem, and at the call of the 

 large audience who had that day numbered over 12,000, Sir James 

 Ciibson-Craig closed the International Forestry Exhibition of 1884, 

 on the evening of the second Saturday of Octolier, by a short speech. 

 The financial results of the Exhibition, as they affect the guarantors, 

 are not yet known. But whatever other direct consequences may 

 supervene, over half a million visitors have been interested in forestry, 

 Avhile experts from nearly every country have compared ideas, and 

 elicited new thoughts soon, we hope, to be made apparent either in 

 manufactures or commerce. Without any invidious distinctions, we 

 must refer to the assiduous coiirtesy of Mr. Cadell, the Secretary, 

 who has filled a diilicult position in an admirable way. 



