HORTICULTURE. 743 



Forestry in America as reflected in Proceedings of the Society of American 

 Foresters, B. Mookk {Forestry Quart., 12 (1914), Nu. 1, pp. 7/7-6'^).— This com- 

 prises a review of the progress of American forestry as reflected in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society of American Foresters. The various articles appearing 

 in the first seven volumes of the Proceedings are here arranged under different 

 hendings in chronological order and briefly abstracted. 



Tenth annual report of the state forester [of Massacliusetts], F W Kane 

 (Ann. Rpt. State Forester Mus>^., 10 (1013), pp. IIJ,, pU. n, fiq. i).-This is the 

 customary review of forest oiJerations in INfassacliusetts for 1013, including the 

 work on the state nurseries and plantations, assistance rendered to private 

 woodbind owners, fire protection work, suppression of the chestnut bark disease 

 and the gipsy and brown-tail moths, parasite work in connection with the con- 

 trol of these moths, new legislation, and a financial statement for the year 



A glimpse of Austrian forestry, T. S. Wooi.sey, Jr. {Proc. Soc Amer 

 Foresters, 9 {WW, Xo. 1, pp. 7-37, pis. 9). -A descriptive account of forestry 

 methods in Austria, including considerable information relative to the adminis- 

 tration of Austrian forests. 



A statistical review of the forest administration of the Grand Duchy of 

 Baden for the year 1912 (Stat is. Naehiv. Forstverw. Baden, 35 (191'^) pp 

 XXXni+lS3, figs. ii).-This is the customary statistical report on the ad- 

 ministration, mnnngement, and exploitation of the crown, community and cor- 

 poration forests of the Grand Duchy of Baden during 1912. Data are given 

 on forest areas, various operations in the forests, yields in major and minor 

 forest products, nnd financial returns. Comparative data are also given show- 

 ing the net returns from the crown forests for each of the previous 45 years 



Report of the forestry department for the year ended June 30 1913 R 

 Daluymple-Hay {Rpt. Forestry Dept. N. S. Wales, 1913, pp. 2h, pis Q) -lln 

 addition to a progress report of forest operations in New South Wales includ- 

 ing a financial statement for the year ended June 30, 1913, the followiu- three 

 departmental bulletins are appended: Climatic Influence of Forests by L A 

 Fosl^ery; The Forests of the Bellinger River, by E. H. F. Swain; and Reaffor- 

 estation of Depleted Hardwood Areas in the Coastal Districts of New South 

 Wales, by C. J. Clulee. 



Climatic characteristics of forest types in the central Rocky Mountains 

 C. G. Bates, F. B. Notestein, and P. Keplingee {Froc. Soc. Amer. Foresters 

 J {1914), No. 1, pp. 78-94).-TMs comprises a progress report on an experiment 

 which was started under the direction of the Forest Service of the U S De- 

 partment of Agriculture at the Fremont Experiment Station in 1910 and at 

 the Wagon Wheel Gap Experiment Station in 1911 to compare the climitic 

 characteristics of the various forest types which occur in two localities of 

 southeastern and southwestern Colorado for a short term of years, and to com- 

 pare the characteristics of similar types in the two localities for a Ion- term 

 jf years. " 



The relation of the surface cover and ground litter in a forest to erosion 

 M. J. Gleissneb {Forestry Quart., 12 {1914), -Vo. 1, pp. 57-.//0).— The author 

 ntes the experience in a Bavarian forest to show that the constant removal of 

 'orest litter is an important cause of erosion on hillsides. The prevention of 

 Tosion under these conditions by the construction of a series of horizontal trans- 

 verse ditches is here described. 



Effective fertilizers in nurseries, G. A. Retan {Forestry Quart., 12 {191',) 

 ^0. 1, pp. 34-36).— As a result of fertilizer experiments which have been cou- 

 lucted in two nurseries of the Pennsylvania department of forestry for the 

 )ast three seasons the author concludes that chemical fertilizers can best be 



