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of humus, litter or ground cover promised little but failure. The 

 plant material, consisting of two to four-year-old seedlings and 

 transplants of Scotch Pine, White Pine, Norway and Douglas 

 Spruce, was put in spaced at six feet, square distribution, and 

 mixed according to site. 



One year after planting the pines had made leaders of 

 from five to twelve inches in length, the spruces considerably 

 less. The Norwaj' Spruce showed a successful per cent, of 

 about 80, the White Pine of between 90 and 95, and of the 

 Scotch Pine hardly a dead one could be found ; in rapidit}' of 

 growth after planting and in hardiness it showed itself to be re- 

 markable ; in many places it was growing vigorously where 

 hardly a vestige of native vegetation occurred. If judgment may 

 be passed onl}' one year after planting, and experience in the 

 region has shown the greatest danger to be in this first year, the 

 success of the plantation is assured. 



The Redwood. By R. T. Fisher. Bulletin No. 38, Bureau of 

 Forestrj-. Pp. 40. PI. xii. Fig. 4. 



An interesting account of the Redwood, showing it to be 

 possible even practical to hold cut-over Redwood lands for a 

 second crop. 



Conservative Lumbering at Sewanee, Te^inessee. By John Foley. 

 Bulletin No. 39, Bureau of Forestry. Pp. 36. PI. xii. 



The reader will not find in this bulletin of the Bureau of 

 Forestrj' complicated tables showing the future j-ield per acre 

 down to fractions of board feet and to dollars, nor volume tables 

 .showing the contents of trees of different diameters and heights, 

 nor curves and tables of the rate of growth of different species, 

 but notwithstanding this the contents of this publication must 

 appeal to the common sense of the lumberman and practical 

 forester more forcii))}^ than any other bulletin of its kind. It is a 

 plain and simple tale of how, under intelligent management 

 based upon a thorough local knowledge of tJie forest tract, higher 

 returns have been obtained from lumbering without entirely im- 

 pairing the chances for future forest growth. 



Our forests, in contradistinction to most of the European forests, 

 are not sown or planted artificially, but are the result of free play 

 of natural forces. The\' are irregular, in the majority of cases 



