22 SIE JOHN L UBBOCK ON FORESTERS' ED UCATIOX. [Nov. 



Sumatra, are among the best of the flowering plants of the year. 

 These are but a few of the pLints recently introduced from abroad, and 

 I have said nothing at all regarding the numerous hybrids which 

 have been raised at home. Many of them are great improvements on 

 the original species. I have placed on the table a iew plants which 

 are interesting as having been introduced by members of this Associa- 

 tion, and also as indicating Avhere many good plants may yet be 

 obtained. Should any of our enterprising firms wish " fresh fields 

 and pastures new," let them send to Central Africa, across the dark 

 continent, where a rich harvest awaits the hands of the collector. 

 The middle island of jSTew Zealand also seems to be a fertile district 

 for the collector, according to the Rev. Mr. Green, who made the 

 plucky ascent of Mount Cook lately. He says in his book entitled 

 The High Alps of New Zealand, that there are more than sixty 

 species of those fine and curious shrubby Veronicas which there 

 cover the hillsides, as the Ehododendron fevrngineura does the 

 European Alps, or the heather on our own hills, besides various 

 other plants still unknown in this country. 



In concluding these remarks, it may be well to add that while 

 we should all be prepared to extend a cordial welcome to novelties 

 from all quarters, we ought at the same time to weigli their claims 

 very caiefally before installing them in tlie places of old and tried 

 friends, who in the past have proved their ability to render us 

 such good service. 



SIE JOEX LUBBOCK OX FORESTERS' EDUCATIOX. 



THE phrase, " a British School of Forestry," may even now be an 

 engima to some. Does it betoken the collective wisdom and 

 experience of our woodmen, just as the science and practice of some 

 of the most world-famed physicians are indelibly associated with the 

 Edinburgh Medical School ? Or, on the other hand, is it the unam- 

 bitious appellation of a mere teaching establishment, of those wlio 

 " open a school and do not call it an academy " ? In an article in 

 the October number of the Contcmj^orari/ Review, which gracefully 

 alludes to the past services of this journal. Sir John Lubbock is at 

 pains to describe an institution of the future coming under the latter 

 designation. He finds occasion, however, to appraise the present 

 state of forestral opinion. According to M. Boppe, a distinguished 

 professor of the Frencli Forest School at Nancy, commissioned by the 

 India Office to report on the cpiestion, Scottish foresters have much 

 to learn ; and the present state of forestry in British woods is archaic. 



