iv CONTENTS. 



JANUARY. 



EDITORIAL XOTES. 

 Leaf Canopy and Proning;, II. — The Beauties of British Trees — Our Song birds — The 

 Hawfinch, or Grosbeak — The ' Indian Forester ' — Thorn Hedges and their Management — 

 The Charlton Hunt— Large Oaks— Forestal Notes — On English Forestry— Pinus Aus- 

 triaca — Instruction in Forestrj- — Australian Forest Administration — English Arboricul- 

 tural Society — Essays and Picports for the International Forestry Exhibition — Lecture on 

 English Forests — Foeest "Work toe the !&IoxthI: England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales — 

 Editor's Box : Planting Trees after an Oat Crop ; Barbed Fencing ; Kay's Dendrometer]; 

 The Gale ; Leaf Canopy and Pruning ; Forest Eoads — Reviews of Books : The Merry 

 Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire ; Adventures of Robinson 

 Crusoe ; Our Friend the Dog ; Familiar Garden Flowers — Chips and Slips. 



FEBEUAEY. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 

 The Late Storm— The Decay of Fallen Leaves — The Giant Cypresses of Verona — 

 Trees in the Dolomite District of the Tyrol — Woods and "Wilds of Shetland — The 

 Beauties of British Trees — Planting Enterprise in the "West Indies — The International 

 Forestry Exhibition — Terebene Soap — Forestal Notes : Pinus Ausb'iaca — Ixsect Pee- 

 TKNTiox — Tr ees : Their Forms and Laws of Gro-wth — The Inverness Nurseries — 

 Forest "Work for the Month : England, Scotland, Ireland, "Wales — Editor's Box : 

 Root Absorption ; Kay 's Dendrometer ; Protecting Trees from Goats; Planting Trees; 

 Forest Roads — Reviews of Boo ks : The Conquest of England ; The English Flower 

 Garden ; Gr anite Crags ; Red Deer — Norfolk Broads and Rivers, &c. ; Days and Hours 

 in a Garden — Chips and Slips. 



MAECH. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 

 The Beauties of British Trees — Dr. Lyons, M.P., and Forestry Abroad — Planting 

 Enterprise in the "West Indies, II. — Forest Botany in Nor«-ay, I. — Forestal Notes : 

 The Draining Power of Conifers ; Effects of Grasses and Weeds — Cob Filberts — A 

 One-man Cross-cut Saw — Large Tree at Damaway — Forest "Work for the Month : 

 England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales — Editor's Box : Planting Trees ; The Gale of 

 Saturday, January 26th, 1884 — Rainfall in North Wales ; Planting in Ireland ; 

 Protecting Trees from Goats — Kay's Dendrometer ; Tree Records — Reviews of Books : 

 The Florist and Pomologist ; The Science Monthly— A Familiar Talk about Trees- 

 Chips and Slips. 



APEIL. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 

 An Italian Lake Garden — Ensilage — Forestry in British Burma— A Forest Wonder — 

 Insect Prevention— Forest Botany in Norway, II.— The Royal Oak of Boscobel — Har- 

 vesting in the Stack — Trees and Shrubs for Town and Suburbs — Forest Work for the 

 Month : England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales — Editor's Box : Planting of Grassy Sur- 

 faces ; Foresters and the International Forestry Exhibition ; ' Dendrometer '; Pinus 

 Austriaca ; Paring Grass Lands for Planting ; The Formation of Dew ; Tree Planting ; 

 Large Tree at Damaway ; Large Oaks— Reviews of Books : Sketches of Bird Life ; 

 America Re-visited ; Glossary of Terms and Phrases ; The Chronicles of Newgate ; The 

 Forest Flora of South Australia ; The Haunted Houses and Family Traditions of Great 

 Britain ; The Sea-Fisherman ; Easy Lessons in Light ; Inquire Within upon Everything; 

 Lays of ^Vncient Rome ; Sell's Dictionary of the World's Press ; Manuel du Cultivateur 

 de Pins en Sologne — Chips and Slips. 



