vi CONTENTS. 



JANUARY. 



Editorial Notes— Edinburgh as a Site for a National School of Forestry— Trees of Mon- 

 mouthshire—Pruning Evergreens— Drainage of Land for Plantation Purposes— The 

 Liberton Mains Nursery— Eflect of Red Lead, Carbolic Acid, and Petroleum on Ger- 

 mination—The Birch— Seaside Tree-Planting at South Shields and elsewhere— The 

 Oriental Plane Tree— Picea Breweriana— Notes on the Gemis Rhus (Sumach)- Indian 

 Forestry Eeport—Appointment—Meteorology— Obituary— Societies : English Arboricul- 

 tural Society; Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society ; Scottish Horticultural Association 

 —Reviews of Books : Studies of Plant Life inCanada ; The Scottish Geographical Maga- 

 zine ; Trade Catalogues received— Forest Work for the Month : England ; Scotland- 

 Letters to the Editor : Ross-shire Forestry ; Raising Plantations of Oak from Acorns 

 instead of Planting— Miseellaneous-Chiiis, PP- 535-59i> 



FEBRUARY. 



Editorial Notes— Report of the Select Parliamentary Committee on Forestry— Prac- 

 ticable Arrangements if Government Aid should be required in the Establishment of a 

 National School of Forestry in Edinburgh— Chapters on Propagating — Boxwood and its 

 Substitutes— Dracaena Draco (the Dragon Tree)— The Mistletoe (Viscum Album)— Count 

 de Cars' Book: A Defence of a Criticism— Forest Renovation at Mount Macedon — 

 Should Coniferous Trees be pruned ? — Pasture in relation to Forests, with Special Refer- 

 ence to Upper Hungary — Newfoundland as a Timber Country — Societies : Scottish 

 Horticultural Association ; Edinburgh Botanical Society ; Scottish Seed and Nursery 

 Trade Association ; North-East Chemico-Agricultural Society, Ireland — Reviews of 

 Books : The Future of the Date Palm (Phrenix dactylifera) in India ; Familiar Trees 

 and Shrubs ; The Farm, the Garden, and the Forest Annual for 1886 ; The Scottish 

 Geographical Magazine — Forest Work for the JMonth : England ; Scotland — Letters to 

 the Editor : Forestry in the Canton Vaud ; Rearing Oak Plantations from Acorns ; 

 What is Debenture Wood ? — Miscellaneous— Chips, . . . • PP- 599-660 



MARCH. 



Editorial Notes — On the Employment of National Funds in the Establishment of a 

 National School of Forestry — The Surface Culture of Forest Trees — A Glimpse of the 

 Duthie Park, Aberdeen — Drawbacks to the Ailanthus — Remarks about Planting, both 

 Old and New — An Anglo-Canadian Forestry School — The Resuscitation of Choice Trees 

 by Top-Dressing — The Red Woods of Northern California — Trees of Monmouthshire — 

 The Japan Cedar — Boxwood and its Substitutes — Spanish Chestnut — Societies : Edin- 

 burgh Botanical Society ; Scottish Horticultural Association ; Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society — Forest Work for the Month : England ; Scotland — Letters to the Editor : A 

 Remarkable Tree ; Sycamore or Plane ; Mechanism of a Tree ; Pruning — Legal : Rating 

 of Forest Lands — Reviews of Books : Canadian Forests, Forest Trees, Timber, and 

 Forest Products ; The Scottish Geographical Magazine ; Government of India : Code of 

 Instructions for the Conduct of Office Business, and for the Regulation of Accounts in 

 the Forest Department, with Forms — Obituary : The late Mr. David Doig, Inchture — 

 Wood Sales— Miscellaneous— Chips, pp. 663-724 



