Oct. 1885.] EDITORIAL NOTES. 343 



Editorial Kotes. 



The Site of the National School of Forestry. — We liave the 

 best cauthority for stating that H.M. Commissioners of Woods and 

 Forests have no individual preference for the establishment of the 

 proposed school at Cooper's Hill, as, following the report of a 

 London newspaper of the Parliamentary discussion on the estimates, 

 we represented them to have in our August number. Let the 

 friends of a Scottish Scliool of Forestry, then, buckle to their work 

 with fresh ardour. 



Edinburgh News Items. — Amongst the prominent events of the 

 month have been the successful completion of the guarantee fund of 

 over £28,000 for the International Industrial Exhibition of next 

 year ; and the Scottish Horticultural Society's Autumn Show, a 

 prominent exliibit in which was Messrs. Dickson & Co.'s display of 

 apples. In the Botanical Gardens several well-known trees have 

 been removed. 



Forestry at the British Association. — At the meeting of this 

 body at Aberdeen, the reading of a paper on the late International 

 Forestry Exhibition by Dr. Crombie Brown, called up Dr. Cleghorn 

 and others to urge the Economic Section of the Association to press 

 on Government the establishment of a National School of Forestry. 

 The neglect of arboriculture and sylviculture in our colonies, which 

 so markedly contrasted with the Governmental care of those subjects 

 in France, Prussia, Switzerland, and Russia, was powerfully dwelt on 

 by the lecturer and subsequent speakers. Dr. Oscar Leon, Munich, 

 when describing the College of Forestry in Munich and in a town 

 in the neighbourhood, stated that there they had a garden where 

 trees were planted, and where the study was made of such subjects 

 as acclimatization, the disease of trees, and the growth of foreign 

 trees, such as conifers. 



Mr. Courtney Prance, Cheltenham, said the great need of a 

 School of Forestry in England was more particularly brought 

 under his notice four years ago, when on a visit to Germany. 

 There he studied the management of a School of Forestry. In 

 it the pruning of trees, the diseases of trees, the action of weeds 

 and beetles, the introduction of water and fish and squirrels into 



