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OAK-GROWING. 



SIR, — Have you ever had any discussion or paper in Forestry on 

 peeling oak standing, and leaving it for felling until the 

 winter ? It is advocated, I believe, by some, but does not appear to 

 me practicable, except for a few solitary instances under or for 

 exceptional circumstances. How long should an oak tree after 

 being peeled be left standing before being felled as seasoned timber ? 

 Does timber gain much towards being seasoned and fit for use 

 when left in the round ? I fancy myself, there is little gained 

 towards seasoning until it is quartered or sawn into planking. If 

 you could, through your paper, raise any information or experience 

 on the above points, they would be both interesting and instructive. 

 — Yours faithfully, Henry Doune. 



Leek-Woottox, "Warwick, 

 20</i August 1885. 



[We admit the above, though just closing up our space ; we defer 

 our own remarks till next month. Will one or two readers also 

 correspond on one or other of the topics started ? — Ed.] 



SUTHERLANDSHIBE FLORA. 



CI IE, — Would you kindly publish in your September issue of 

 K^ Forestry the common and botanical names of the enclosed speci- 

 mens of trees and shrubs picked up in the county of Sutherland by 



Wandeker. 



August 11 ih, 1885. 



[We object to naming more than six specimens in any single 

 issue, especially when, as in some instances in the present parcel, 

 only scraps of leaves without flower and fruit are sent towards the 

 close of the month, when we are in the hurry of preparing for next 

 issue. Send better specimens of ISTos. 1 and 2. No. 3, Acer criti- 

 cum, maple. N'o. 4, Platanus orientalis, Oriental plane. No. 5, 

 Ahnis yliUinosa, alder. No. 6, Adics Morinda, the Himalayan 

 spruce ; usually attains a height of about 5 feet, but attains to 

 from 80 to 120 feet under favourable circumstances, grows in its 

 native habitats at from 7000 to 10,000 feet above the level of 

 the sea. No. 7, Pinus Aristata. The bearded-scaled pine, found 

 on Pike's Peak, in snowy mountains of North America ; said to 

 attain a height, when fully grown, of from 30 to 50 feet. No. 8, 



