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million acres of forest land in India and our colonies. As yet our 

 rulers have only given the benefits of forestry teaching and 

 conservancy to India ; "why stop there ? 



A forest school need not necessarily be a Government institution. 

 Indeed, it might trust solely to private enterprise, were it not 

 necessary that it should have forests connected with it. A large 

 extent of forest in varioiis stages, having a variety of climates and 

 soils, seems rather beyond the scope of private endeavour. Yet M. 

 Boppe gives a skilled opinion that no single piece of woodlands in 

 this country, either Government or private property, with perhaps the 

 exception of Lord Gaze's woods, was a suitable training-place for 

 -such a school. Sir John Lubbock thus opens up an almost cosmo- 

 politan subject ; and concludes by suggesting professorships of 

 different branches of forestry at the private Agricultural Colleges of 

 Cirencester or Downton, as well as single professors at Oxford and 

 Cambridge, to treat the subject in a more general fashion, with 

 power to make prolonged educational visits to Government or private 

 forests in Britain, as previously arranged for. This might be a 

 solution of the question with reference to England. But what of 

 the reasonable expectations of Scotland and the Colonies, especially 

 as a consummation of the Edinburgh International Exliibition ? ' 



Foresters of every shade will agree with Sir John in the import- 

 ance of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the subject. We 

 are sure that the action of such a forestral leader in the coming 

 general session, seconded by other M.P.'s of known friendliness to 

 forestry, will receive the hearty co-operation of our readers. 



THE MANAGEMENT OF PLANTATIONS IN 

 CUMBERLAND. 



THE following interesting paper was read by Mr. William Baty, 

 forester on the Netherby Hall Estate, Cumberland, at the 

 International Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, on 7th October 

 1884:— 



Netherby Hall, the property of Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, 

 Baronet, is pleasantly situated on the river Esk, about ten miles 

 north of Carlisle. This river flows through the estate for a distance 

 of ten miles, and empties into the Solway Firth near Gretna. 

 The property is bounded on the west by the river Sark, which 

 divides England from Scotland, and on the north by the river 

 Liddel, and on the south-east by the river Lyne ; so that the estate 

 is surrounded by rivers, and may be said to be wholly enclosed in a 



