248 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Plantings of bamboo in northern Florida and Louisiana have grown 

 to a height of 25 feet, and there is, according to the Forest Service, 

 no longer any question about their producing in that country good 

 canes comparable to those which they produce in China and Japan. 

 Large enough quantities of young plants to set out many small areas 

 throughout the South, from the Carolinas to California, wherever 

 there is sufficient moisture and the land is not too high priced to 

 admit of their cultivation, can now be supplied. 



Forest investigations were undertaken in Denmark as early as 

 1882, when a special experimental department was founded under the 

 department having charge of the state forests. In 1901 the work was 

 extended by the establishment by the Board of Agriculture of the 

 Experimental Forestry Service. The work is directed by a leader in 

 conjunction with a commission consisting of two representatives of 

 the Board of Commissioners of Woods and Forests, two representa- 

 tives of private forestry, and one teacher of. forestry. This commission 

 meets at least once a year, adopts the plan of work to be carried out 

 during the following year, and prepares a budget covering the work. 

 The bulk of the investigations, especially those requiring continuity 

 of work, are conducted by the leader, although projects may also be 

 assigned to qualified specialists. Plans for the conduct of any experi- 

 ment must be approved by the commission. 



The.appropriation for investigative work has risen from approxi- 

 mately $2,225 in 1902 to $3,750 in 1915. About 10 per cent of the 

 total expenditures is used for permanent sample-plot work. The chief 

 subjects of investigation are: Growth and yield; introduction of 

 exotics; studies of forest soils; forest protection; races and forms of 

 forest trees; reforestation, and methods of cutting. 



In 1902 the Danish Experimental Forestry Service became a 

 member of the International Association of Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tions and has been represented at the meetings of this association in 

 Vienna in 1903, in Wurtemberg in 1906, and in Brussels in 1910. 



S. M. Storm, a Danish forester who spent considerable time in 

 this country several years ago, has published in the Journal of the 

 Danish Experimental Forestry Service an interesting account of some 

 experiments with foreign conifers on the island of Lolland, in the 

 most southern part of Denmark. These experiments were started in 



