282 EDITORIAL NOTES. [Sept. 



with their parents, may be entirely reared in a wood. Thus 

 turkeys are equally capable of a lialf feral treatment ; and pheasants 

 were, in their earlier years of introduction to this country, kept as 

 " farm stock." If the amount of bird food, in the form of beech-nuts 

 and acorns, or mountain ash berries, be capable of infinite expansion, 

 we may have in Great Britain still other varieties of birds which are 

 20od for the table. 



Squieeels at Woek on JSToeway Speuce. — In the August 

 American Gardener'' s Monthly, Professor W. A. Buckhout attributes 

 the broken branchlets found under the Norway spruces in the 

 spring, referred to in the previous number of the periodical, to 

 squirrels. These branchlets usually lie among the clumps of trees 

 near where these rodents may be seen feeding on seeds and cones. 

 Isolated trees do not thus suffer ; though native Pines (P. rigida) do. 

 The editor admits that the Professor's specimens show distinct marks 

 of gnawing ; but specimens from New Hamj)shire appear broken off 

 at a bud — disarticulated as it were — which a squirrel could not do. 

 Such disarticulation may have begun by drying commencing after 

 the rodent had cut the branch. 



The Late De. Peanklin B. Hough. — The Lowville Times publislies 

 a supplement of three columns, containing the titles alone of books 

 and pamphlets by our lamented contributor, whose voice, now still, 

 was often heard insisting that the interests of lumbermen and forest 

 preservers on such tracts as the Adirondacks, so far from being 

 antagonistic, were identical. We trust the bill he spent his last 

 energies in perfecting and passing through the local legislature with 

 this intent, will be his best monument. 



The Ameeican Foeestey Congeess. — The fourth session of this 

 Congress will be held this month in Boston ; the meeting being 

 under the auspices of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The 

 programme includes such varied topics as forest legislation, forest 

 fires, forestal education, arbor days, experimental stations, and the 

 like, all of which have been allocated to specialists to introduce. It 

 is understood that Professor Sargent will participate in the dis- 

 cussions, and it is hoped that the meeting may culminate in the 

 establishment of a State Forestry Association ; such a result being a 

 consequence of the past meetings at Cincinnati, Montreal, St. Paul, 

 Washington, and Saratoga Springs. 



