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Manitoba. — From the first Bulletin of the Department of 

 Agriculture for 1885, it appears that tree-planting has not been 

 overtaken in the Province generally with that vigour which many 

 settlers desiderate. An Arbor day would aid this, but the war 

 troubles in the North-West have probably alone prevented its 

 institution. Farmers, notwithstanding, are planting extensively for 

 shelter and ornament, particularly in the eastern portion of the 

 province. Among the varieties planted are maple, spruce, ash, balm 

 of Gilead, oak and elm, as well as a few kinds of imported fruit and 

 ornamental trees. 



Sylviculture at the Antwerp Exhibition. — In an article in the 

 Bevue clcs Emix et Forets for August, M. Noel gives his impressions 

 on this department, in which he represented France as a juryman. 

 The pavilion of the Geographical Society of Lisbon, in conjunction 

 with the Colonial Bank of Portugal, contains a magnificent display of 

 gums, cinchonas, rubbers, and timbers alike from the Portuguese 

 colonies of Eastern Africa, as well as Mozambique. The ebony 

 woods and other exhibits of Brazil perhaps merit most attention. 

 French Colonial produce from Xew Caledonia and Algiers is also 

 praised. 



Belgian State Forests. — Since the 1st of August, the administra- 

 tion of these forests has been detached from the care of the 

 Minister of Finance, and reunited to the Department of Agriculture 

 and Public Works. 



Forestry in New Zealand. — Now that Sir Julius Vogel has 

 again assumed the reins of government, he appears to have deter- 

 minedly set his mind to those proposals of forest conservancy 

 suggested by the Pieport of Captain Campbell-Walker. The subject 

 formed an item in the Governor's speech during the present session 

 of the Provincial Legislature. As Professor Kirk was engaged for 

 ten months during Captain Campbell- Walker's survey assisting him, 

 and has done the preliminary work occasioned by the present move- 

 ment, he will probably have the work of forest conservancy entrusted 

 to him. Captain Campbell- Walker proposed an expenditure of 

 £10,000 during the first year, involving a staff of twelve con- 

 servators, rangers, and necessary clerks ; but the new establishment 

 win likely have a more modest beginning. Meanwhile it may be as 

 well to chronicle some of the facts given in the report of 1877. 



