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must possess a knowledge of machinery and the care of a saw-mill 

 which in nearly every case is driven by steam power ; as a rule, he 

 is expected to cut out timber for fencing; to make, or superintend 

 the making of field-gates, hurdles, etc. ; and to sum up the whole, 

 it means wood merchant, engineer, joiner, nurseryman, book-keeper, 

 contractor, and drainer, all combined in one single person ; and with 

 all this knowledge he is generally considered to be a very modest 

 individual on an estate." 



Mr. Davidson pleads that forestry occupy the first place, and that 

 game be merely a contingent or outcome of it. Often crop after 

 crop of newly-planted trees and shrubs are successively eaten off 

 and destroyed, while in extreme winters old and young trees and 

 plants are peeled and eaten round their stems, so as to destroy 

 their vitality, by rabbits and hares. Deer in parks and mountain 

 districts consume as much bark as some of our English tanneries. 

 Black game destroy firs and pines ; whilst the preservation of 

 pheasants, grouse, woodcocks, or snipes, etc., practically keeps the 

 forester out of his woods for nine months in the year. All this, 

 and more, is detailed by Mr. Davidson in such a temperate and 

 practical fashion as to merit the thanks of landed proprietors having 

 at the same time woods and game coverts. 



Dwellers in populous city pent v/ill study with interest Mr. 

 John Wardle's paper on " Trees and Shrubs suitable for Towns 

 and Suburbs." Are we right in presuming that the detailed list 

 given, specially refers to nortliern districts bounded, say, by the 

 Humber ? The topographical limits of healthy growth of such 

 trees and shrubs, we know to possess special interest to Yorkshire 

 and Scottish landscape gardeners. 



THE FOREST SCHOOL, DEHRA DUN. 



Report on the Course of Iiistnictioii at the Forest School, Dehra Dun' 

 during 1884. By E. E. Fernandez, Esq., Officiating Director 

 of the Forest School. With a Memorandum thereon by the 

 officiating Inspector-General of Forests, and Ptemarks by the 

 Government of India. 1885. 



THIS forest school was made an imperial institution in 1884, and 

 placed under the Inspector-General of Forests to the Govern- 

 ment of India ; and the present report is the iirst submitted under the 

 new arrangement. The main purport of the instruction given is to 

 qualify native forest rangers for tlie satisfactory discharge of their 



