FEBRUARY 1886. 



GONTENTS. 



EoiToniAL Notes 



Report of the Select Parliamentary Committee on Forestry, . 

 Practicable Arrangements if Government Aid should be required 



IX THE Establishment of a National School of Forestry in 



Edinburgh, 



Chapters on Propagating, 



Boxwood and its Substitutes, 



DRACiENA Draco (the Dragon Tree), 



The Mistletoe (Yiscum Album), . 



Count de Cars' Book : A Defence of a Criticism, 



Forest Eenovation at Mount Macedon, 



Should Coniferous Trees be pruned? .... 



Pasture in relation to Forests, with Special Reference 



Hungai;y, 



Newfoundland as a Timber Country, . 



Societies: — Scottish Horticultural Association — Edinburgh Botanical 



Society — Scottish Seed and Nursery Trade Association — North-East 



Chemico-Agricultural Society, Ireland, 



Reviews of Books : — The Future of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in 



India — Familiar Trees and Shrubs — The Farm, the Garden, and the 



Forest Annual for 1886 — The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 

 Forest Work for the Month :— England, Scotland, 

 Letters to the Editor: — Forestry in the Canton Yaud— Rearing Oak 



Plantations from Acorns — What is Debenture Wood ? 



Miscellaneous, 



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