1884.] AUSTRALIAN FOEEST ADMINISTliATION. 205 



Government itself is beginning to take steps in this direction. A 

 forestry class has been established at the Koyal College of 

 Engineering, at Cooper's Hill, near Windsor. The matter has been 

 taken up by the Scottish Arboricultnral Society in Edinburgh, and 

 by the Society of Arts in London. Wo must be tliankful to these 

 influential associations in Edinburgh and London. Lastly, there is to 

 be an international exhibition of forestry this time twelvemonths 

 in Edinburgh, and I trust that sucli an exhibition will carry us 

 several steps forward in the cause of scientific forestry reform. 



1 think I have now given you a ])lain practical answer as to what 

 is forestry, and then, as to what is instruction in forestry. 



AUSTRALIAN FOREST ADMINISTRATION* 

 ,HE concise report under review, of the Woods and Forests 

 Department of South Australia, describes another year of 

 e nergetic industry and sustained progress in South Australia. 

 The Conservator comes of a family who have both by practice and 

 theoretical work greatly furthered British forestry, and his labours 

 at the Antipodes are calculated to serve the same end. In the 

 intervals of his arduous duties in the colony he has already pub- 

 lished a book on 'Forest Tree Culture in South Australia,' and 

 several parts of a work on ' The Forest Flora of South Australia,' 

 illustrated with very large coloured plates. 



The Forest Keserves of the colony called South Australia are 

 situated in eighteen different localities, grouped into four districts, and 

 co-mprise altogether about 147,000 acres. Enclosures for planting 

 have been made to the extent of 4,140 acres, including 100 acres 

 which were enclosed during the past year. Two hundred and seventy 

 acres were planted with trees by the Department during the year, 

 some twenty-five acres were sown broadcast with tree seeds (chiefly 

 Eucalyptus), and twenty acres were sown with seeds of the 

 broadleaved Wattle {Acacia pycnantha), a tree extensively cultivated 

 in order to be stripped of its useful bark, which brings in ,i good 

 price per ton. The total number of trees planted during the season 

 was close on 194,000, of which 120,000 have survived. Broadcast 

 sowing added 8,100 trees, and natural reproduction in enclosures 

 5,000, trees to the stock. Outside of the enclosures 52,000 natural- 

 grown saplings were pruned during the year. 



The revenue derived from these 147,000 acres of Forest Eeserves is 

 as yet, in_ the seventh year of conservancy, small in comparison with 

 the large area, and it is still derived not so much from timber sales 

 as from rents of lands leased for grazing. It reaches only £5,975, but 



^ Annual Progress Report upon State Forest Administration in South Australia, 

 for the year 1882-3. By J. Ednie Brown, F.L.S,, Conservator of Forests. Printed 

 by E. Spiller, Government Printer, Adelaide, 1883. 



