1884.] EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Commenting on the subject a few days ago, the Times, while 

 calling attention to the fact that the Forestry Exhibition could only 

 be made to pay as a place of public amusement, expresses a hope 

 that it may not altogether have failed in respect of its scientific and 

 practical aims. 



Dr. Lyons, M.P. for Dublin, lectured in Chester on " Forestry in 

 relation to the Future Timber Supplies of the Empire," on Wednesday 

 the 22nd October last. We sliall refer more fully to this in a 

 subsequent issue. 



The New Orleans World's Exposition, which begins on the first 

 of December, and continues during the winter till May 1885, is 

 expected to be of service to American manufacturers by opening to 

 them the markets of the Spanish - American Eepublics and the 

 European Colonies on the Caribbean Sea. The directors have their 

 northern headrpiarters at Corner Broadway and Chambers Streets, 

 New York. 



We call the attention of Canadian journals to the subject treated 

 of in this uumljer of Forestry by I\Ir. Jack, who has been engaged in 

 the survey of Canadian forests for upwards of twenty years. 



Colonel Dods, of Portobello, is convener of the committee, 

 appointed by the conference referred to in our leader, to establish a 

 Scottish School of Forestry and accompanying museum. The 

 exhibits already obtained are now being temporarily housed in a 

 spare wareroom obtained from the Lawsoii Nursery Company, Limited. 

 Jlore specimens and funds are needed for this new project. 



If it may yet be too premature for modern philosophical govern- 

 ments to prosecute at once great schemes of national forest con- 

 servancy, individuals must take what comfort they might find in 

 their own resources. A contemporary calls attention to the recent 

 completion of a well-judged experiment. In the year 1820 about 

 800 acres of hilly land of scarcely any agricultural value, the 

 property of Lord Cawdor, in Scotland, were planted with fir and 

 other trees. They flourished ; and from many successive " thinnings " 

 considerable sums of money were from time to time realized. In 

 the end the whole of the timber was cut down and sold for the sum 

 of £16,000, in addition to the previous interim profits; the total 

 result being considered as e(|ual jier acre to tlie return from the 

 best arable land in the country. 



