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Editorial Motes. 



Prince Bismark's latest Foeestal Move. — Considerable excite- 

 ment prevails in Sweden in consequence of the possibility of the 

 Eeichstag passing this session an import duty on foreign sawn wood, 

 virtually prohibiting its introduction into Germany. This will 

 probably cause for a time the British markets to be flooded with 

 Swedish and Finnish wood at present sent to the North German 

 ports. But as the value of German timber is likely to increase, 

 and wood exports from the ports of the Fatherland will suffer a 

 corresponding decrease, Bismark's move may only cause the forest 

 proprietors of Eussian Poland to seek to divert a further portion of 

 their produce to Eussian ports. 



The Claims of the Far West. — Thanks to our vigorous con- 

 temporary, The Mississippi Valley Lumhcrman and Manufacturer ! 

 By its quoting our article on Wisconsin Forests, we have aided on 

 that immediate action in forest legislation now taken in the Senate 

 of Minnesota. For there Senator Wheat has introduced a measure, 

 divided into tliree bills, which prohibits all sales of timber lauds, or 

 the timber thereon ; and makes it felony to cut down timber on 

 lands belonging to the State, besides creating a commission of three 

 citizens, each of whom shall have been resident in the State for 

 more than fifteen years, with special forestal knowledge to act, 

 briefly, as State conservators. Bravo, Minnesota ! 



The Exhibitions. — Messrs. Dick, Eadclyffe, & Co., 129 High 

 Holborn, London, W.C, have assumed the management of the 

 World's Forestry and Horticultural Exhibition for 1885. This 

 Exhibition, at the Alexandra Palace, is to be opened on March 31st, 

 and kept open for six months. The preparations for the Inter- 

 national Inventions Exhibition at South Kensington progi-ess 

 apace. So also do those for the Antwerp Exposition. 



At the New Orleans Exhibition a magnificent display of cacti, 

 yuccas, agaves, and aloes from Texas and Mexico are specially 

 admired. In an out-of-doors exhibit by the General Bulb Company 

 of Vogelenzang, Holland, no fewer than 230,000 bulbs have been 

 planted. Hyacinths, which in the north would not have appeared 

 till April, came out in the middle of January, and some of the 

 Narcissus were foUowinu' in the wake. 



