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and observing in circumstances beyond the reach of others. An 

 opportunity of putting these experiences into the common stock, and 

 of enriching and enlivening others by describing them, will now be 

 open to the intelligent foresters of Britain ; and they cannot fail to 

 confer benefit on their fellows by forwarding to us for insertion brief 

 notes of curiosities of timber growth, singular experiences in their 

 labours, and any ideas which may have suggested themselves by 

 the observations available to them. For this and any other advan- 

 tageous purpose we shall open for them Our Editorial Letter Box, 

 for^the reception of short notes of natural phenomena, facts, ap- 

 propriate intelligence, and questions concerning Forestry. We have 

 also reserved a space for the registration of appointments, removals, 

 ♦Sec, and for such other little items of news about foresters and 

 forestal affairs as may interest the class of readers to whom we 

 address ourselves. 



It will be readily seen how close the relations of the topics to be 

 treated of in the Jom'nal of Forestry are to those which relate to the 

 management of estates, we have therefore chosen as a sub-title a phrase 

 which indicates that such subjects as concern Estates Management 

 have found a place in our programme, and shall in due course be in- 

 corporated in our columns. Many practical matters connected with 

 the due culture, proper laying out, profitable administration, factorage, 

 improvement and conduct of estates, so nearly akin to those relating 

 to forestry occur that we think it likely that their consideration may 

 be advantageously conjoined with the other objects of our magazine. 

 In this, as in all other matters, we shall endeavour to bring before 

 our readers what may be useful, instructive, and profitable ; and as 

 we shall open these pages impartially to all who have anything of 

 real value, interest, and worth to say, it will greatly rest with our 

 readers themselves to determine the character, quality, and nature of 

 the contents of this Journal. 



"We have drawn up what may be thought a fancy sketch of the 

 possibilities of our Magazine : but, if we are seconded, as we hope to 

 be, by the staff of able contributors already secured, and by others 

 - — to whom we may justly look for aid — who possess ability and 

 are willing to advance the cause of arboriculture, at home, abroad, 

 and in the colonies, we do not fear but that the Jouriiat of 

 Forestry will soon take a leading place among the Serials of the 

 United Kinodom. 



We have been greatly encouraged and urged forward in our under- 

 taking by the hearty interest shown, and the willing co-operation 

 assured to us, by many of the leading members of the Scottish 

 Aeboricultukal Society, the only national organization under Royal 

 patronage of which we are aware, devoted to the promoting and 



