SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



Sir, — In my pamphlet on " The Schools of Forestry in Europe which 

 you did me the honour to notice at such length in the first number of 

 the Journal of Forestry^ I submitted a plea for the creation of a school 

 of forestry in connection with the projected formation of an arboretum in 

 Edinburgh. My opinion, that at comparatively little expenditure there 

 might thus be created a school of forestry which might take its place with 

 the best equipped schools of forestry on the Continent, remains unchanged. 

 "Whether any such arrangement as I have suggested will ever be carried 

 into effect is quite uncertain. Meanwhile the field is] open for any edu- 

 cational institution to take the initiative, if so disposed. I have in my 

 former communication intimated that the measure might be carried out in 

 ■combination with an agricultural college, such as I suppose that at Ciren- 

 cester to be. This is done at St. Petersburg and at Moscow, in Russia ; at 

 Nova Alexandria, in Poland ; at Thavand, in Saxony ; and at Hohenheim, 

 in Wurtemburg; and in illustration of what might then be done I have 

 forwarded you an account of the system pursued at this last-mentioned 

 place ; and this I do, not as indicative of any idea being entertained by me 

 that we have only to adopt the same arrangements and the thing will be 

 done, but as a means of facilitating the idea of how a course of instruc- 

 tion in forestry might be adapted to and combined with existing arrange- 

 ments in any such college, as I have in my plea*for the creation of a school 

 ■of forestry in Edinburgh endeavoured to show^how it might be adapted 

 to and combined with existing arrangements for instruction in that city 

 without in any way disturbing these. 



Haddington, May 18, 1877. John C. Brown. 



THE POPLAR TREE. 



Sir, — Permit me to congratulate you on the appearance of your first 

 number, which I have no doubt will be, or has been, welcomed by a great 

 many who, like myself, cannot pretend to be foresters, and yet have often 

 occasion to seek information connected with the science which the estab- 

 lishment of your journal, supported by such a strong phalanx of professional 

 contributors, will now enable us to obtain. 



