CONTENTS. 



small ; Transactions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society ; Transactions of the 

 English Arboricultural Society ; Report on tlie Course of Instruction at the Forest 

 School, Dehra Dun, during 1884; Familiar Trees; Kevista de Montes— Legal : The 

 Crown and Foreshores ; The Value of Land in the Itchen Valley ; Land Arbitration in 

 Yorkshire — Forest Work for the Month : England ; Scotland ; Wales — Grafting — 

 Chips, .....,,,.,.. pp. 279-340 



OCTOBER. 



Editorial Notes — A September Raid in Northumberland — The Value of Timber 

 affected by Site of Growth — A Talk about some Tree Leaves — The English Arboricul- 

 tural Society — Notes on the Excursion of tlie Scottish Arboricultural Society, August 

 5th and 6th, 1885 — Notes on Britisli Orchids — Arboriculture about Stirling— Historical 

 Notice of some Celebrated Trees — The Entomologist : Joint- Worms destroying Wheat 

 Stalks — Reviews of Books : Journal of the Scottish Meteorological Society ; The Scottish 

 Geographical Magazine for September ; Forestry and Forest Products : Prize Essays of 

 the Edinburgh International Forestry Exhibition, 1884 — Essay on the Formation and 

 Management of Plantations, in various Sites, Altitudes, and Exposures ; Reyista de 

 Montes ; Nuova Revista Forestale publicata per cura dei Professori dell' Lstituto 

 Forestale di Vallombrosa diretta dall' Ingegnere Coram. F. Piccioli ; Review of Forest 

 Administration in British India for the Year 1883-84 ; Introduction of Systematic 

 Treatment to the Crown Forests of the Cape Colony : Summary of Rules and Instruc- 

 tions — Letters to the Editor : Peeling Oak standing ; On Seasoning Oak Timber ; Count 

 A. de Cars' Book : a Criticism ; Why the Trees in Kensington Gardens die ; Tlie 

 Bladder-Nut Tree ; Answers to Correspondents — Legal : Decisions by the English Supe- 

 rior Courts concerning Landed Properties ; Can a Proprietor work Minerals below a 

 Public Railway ? — Forest Work for the Month : Englaiul ; Scotland ; Wales — Chips, 



pp. 343-404 



XOYEMBER. 



Editorial Notes — American Forestry Congress — English Arboricultural Society Excur- 

 sion — Ross-shire Forestry — Tlie International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh : An 

 Argument for the Organization of a National School of Forestry — The Timber Trees of 

 Ceylon — Historical Notice of some Celebrated Trees — The Indian Forest Survey — 

 United States Census Forestry Report— From Proud Preston to Poor Japan — The Forests 

 of Europe — Outdoor Cultivation of British Orchids — The Elm — Chemistry : Different 

 Yield of Produce from the Two Varieties of the Oak ; How to make Potash — Reviews of 

 Books : Cottages for Rural Districts ; Familiar Garden Flowers ; Selection and Seasoning 

 of Wood — Letters to the Editor : Estate Work ; The Fruit Conference — Forest Work 

 for the Month : England ; Scotland— Sales— Chips, . . . . pp. 407-46G 



DECEMBER. 



Editorial Notes — Liriodendron Tulipifera — Oaks in Monmouthshire — The Edinlmrgh 

 Apple and Pear Congress and Conference — The Woods in Autumn — Close Woods or 

 Open ? — Larch, Native and Foreign — Indian Forestry Reports — Oak Coppice, its Man- 

 agement and Treatment— Sideretizing, or Impregnating with Iron — Count de Cars' 

 Book; or, a "Criticism" Criticised— The Electric Tree of New Guinea — Fertilization 

 of British Orchids — Picea Pectinata — Pruning the Larch — Forest Work for the Month : 

 England; Scotland — Reviews of Books : Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England ; The Scottish Geographical Magazine ; The Naturalist's World — Letter to the 

 Editor ; Wood Sales— Miscellaneous — Chips, ...... pp. 471-5-32 



