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stocking of all cleared areas (natural reproduction, sowing, and 

 planting, protection against fire, grazing, etc.). The enlargement 

 of the domain of the Working Plans Branch includes a record 

 of such documents by local conservators, together with the amount 

 executed in the Inspector-General's Office. It is thereby pro- 

 posed to afford the Government of India a safeguard as to its 

 valuable forests being managed in the right way, without unduly 

 interfering with the necessary freedom of action of the Local 

 Governments. 



SOUTH AFRICAN FORESTRY. 



Introduction of Systematic Treatment to the Crovm Forests of the 

 Ca])c Colony. Summary of Rules and Instructions. By Le 

 CoMTE DE Yasselot de Eegne. Translated by A. W. Hey- 

 wood, Forest Department. Cape Town : W. A. Eichards & 

 Sons, Printers, Castle Street. 1885. 



This treatise, while designed primarily for officers of the Forest 

 Department of Cape Colony, is worthy of a much wider circulation. 

 Detailed instructions are given as to felling and reproduction, the 

 division of a forest into working blocks, marking trees, as well as 

 the keeping of note-books, observation forms, returns, and inventories 

 of standing forest stock. Were we to quote at all, it would have 

 to be at such length as the other demands on our space do not 

 allow of. Meanw^iile we commend the book alike to colonial 

 and home foresters. Two larger treatises are in preparation by 

 the same author, viz. " A Forest Code," and " A Treatise on Forestry, 

 adapted to Colonial circumstances." 



Advantages of Ckown Geafting. — By adopting crown grafting, 

 almost all the advantages of budding upon single stocks are 

 secured, and in this way part of the work can be done in the 

 winter, and not all rushed into the hurry and bustle of summer. 

 In crown grafting it is best to use good, first-class stocks, shorten- 

 ing the tap root a little, leaving 9 to 10 inches of root, and use 

 scions shorter than piece-root grafting, say about 3 inches, and 

 make the splice or union just at the crown or collar of the seed- 

 ling. Plant the graft about 1 inch below the joint, leaving 2 

 inches of it above ground. Should any of the scions fail, the 

 seedling will throw up a sucker, which can be budded the same 

 fall, and thus have nearly a perfect stand. — N. H. Alhungh. 



