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Keviews of ^ooks. 



Flora Forestal Espanola. 



SOME years since a commission was issued to Seuor Don 

 Maximo Laguna, a student of forest science of European 

 fame, and others to be associated with him, to prepare a Eeport of 

 the Forest Flora of Spain. In 1883 the first part was printed; and 

 now illustrative plates, beautifully executed, representing the leafage, 

 flowers, and fruit, with the organs delicately drawn and exquisitely 

 coloured, having been completed under the charge of Senor Don 

 Justo de Salinas, by whom the drawings were prepared, the work 

 has been issued by the Director-General of Agricvdture, Trade, and 

 Commerce. The report comprises a description of the trees, shrubs, 

 and bushes, indigenous or naturalized, in Spain, with short notes 

 and observations on the culture and economic uses of the more 

 important. There are given the most generally-used systematic 

 names; the popular names; existing plates besides those accompany- 

 ing the Eeport which have been examined ; a detailed description 

 of each ; the area throughout wliich they are found ; the locality in 

 Spain in which each is found; conditions of the locality in which 

 it flourishes; and brief remarks on its culture and exploitation. And 

 it is intimated that probably there will afterwards be issued as an 

 appendix to this work, a description of the trees and shrubs most 

 frequently cultivated in Spain. But tlris will be strictly a flora, and 

 not a treatise on sylviculture, nor on exploitation or forest manage- 

 ment ; there will be given, however, some indications of the pro- 

 ducts and the culture of the more important. 



Forestry Bulletin. January 1885. No. 3. Issued on behalf of 

 the American Forestry Congress. 

 It is proposed to issue five or six numbers, if not more, throughout 

 the year, and to include in them not only papers brought before the 

 Congress, as well as those which may issue from the holding of the 

 Ifew Orleans Exhibition, but also a record of Transatlantic forestal 

 matters. All interested may receive these at the annual subscrip- 

 tion of one dollar, payaljle to Bernhard E. Fernow, secretary of the 

 American Forestry Congress, 13 Burling Slip, New York City. 



The number chronicles the proceedings of the annual meeting of 

 the Congress held at New York in September last, which gave much 

 attention to the woodlands of that State. Dr. Hough's paper on 

 this subject bristles with statistics, and wonderful diagrams proving 

 their case by graphic representation to the dullest, occupies the 

 bulk of this number. 



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