650 The Joicrnal 0/ Forestry. 



Where sufficient leaves have not been collected, there is still an 

 opportunity of getting thera from ditches and hollows into which 

 they have drifted. 



Fencing and road-making may still be continued. Suit the work 

 to the weather, and thus economize both horse and manual labour. 



Take advantage of frosts to cart composts to the nursery, and turn 

 and well mix all lumps of lime and soil intended for spring use. 



Watch the fallage of underwood, and see that the stools are well 

 trimmed down. Select the best tillers, and see that they are evenly 

 distributed over the fall. Pat brush on clearance roads before cartage 

 commences. Also look well to wire netting and other fences round. 

 nurseries. 



The carting of building materials and of limestone for burning may 

 now go on. Seasoned timber also may be prepared for use in ex- 

 posed situations by creosoting, kyanizing, soaking in hydrate of lime, 

 or in a brine of salt and water. 



Green timber may be rapidly seasoned by covering it up for a few 

 weeks in repeated layers of hot lime. In the same manner a deep 

 and rich mahogany colour may be imparted to elm planks by burying 

 it for a time in heating stable manure. 



PlucMey, Kent. 



A. J. Burrows. 



SCOTLAND. 



Owing to the wet, unsettled weather which prevailed during the 

 earlier part of last month forest operations have been very much 

 hindered. The roads and drives throughout plantations being quite 

 soaked with water, traffic thereon has been rendered almost im- 

 possible. Towards the end of the month, however, a hard frost set 

 in, which soon converted the softest drive into a hard serviceable 

 road capable of resisting the heaviest traffic, advantage of which no 

 doubt has baen taken to get as much timber as possible carted off to 

 wherever its destination might be. 



However anxious foresters may be to prosecute the felling of 

 timber, it is very likely that for the greater part of this month at 

 least many of them will have to make way for the sportsman. 

 The shooting of game coverts will now be pretty general, and as 

 a consequence the plantations must be left undisturbed. No forester 

 will have any difficulty in finding employment for his men at other 

 necessary work where they will not disturb any game. 



All dead or broken trees can be grubbed out of the lawn, the park 

 or the pleasure-grounds, and the brush burned on the bare soil, before 



