156 Forestry Quarterly 



It had been the intention of Dr. Dauckel- 



Practices mann, late director of the Prussian Aca- 



in demy of Forestry at Eberswalde, to publish 



Silviculture. the results of his studies of the silvicultural 



behavior of trees as observed during his 



long and active career in forestry. This unfortunately he never 



did. Indicating his views in this direction a short description 



has been published by Boden of the practices resorted to in the 



demonstration forest Freienwalde, a part of the equipment of this 



school, and hence directl}' under Danckelmann's hand during his 



long directorship. 



Pine is clear-cut and replanted after the strip method or in some 

 cases in groups, and in either case the local areas cut are very 

 small, cutting being carried on in a number of places simultan- 

 eously. Where pine appears on soil good enough for broad- 

 leaved trees damage has been done by fungi ( Trametes pini and 

 Polyporus anjiosus) ; the indicated change to broadleaved stand 

 is being made more or less gradually as the severity of the dam- 

 age requires. The ultimate result will be oak with an understand 

 in places of beech. 



Especial attention was turned to maintaining and extending 

 stands of oak, for in this was seen the field of greatest usefulness 

 as furnishing in coming years a material to which too little effort 

 was being given to maintain and establi.sh. Oak .stands were re- 

 produced by shelter or nurse-tree methods and stands of birch or 

 beech were cleared and the area planted with seedlings or sown 

 with acorns. 



Beech has required little care, establishing itself regularly as a 

 secondary crop under oak. In pine stands where the fungi have 

 severeh' broken the crown cover, beech seedlings have been trans- 

 planted from where they grew densely and served to protect the 

 soil from the sun. 



Birch strips along roads and elsewhere serve to guard against 

 fire and besides have helped materially in the collection of June 

 beetles when these became so numerous as to do great injury. 



Spruce and larch have also found limited use, many exotic 

 species have been planted to furnish students an idea of their 

 growth and behavior and many forms of forest growth, such as 

 coppice, have been introduced for the same reason. 



ErinneruiiiTcJi aiis deni IVitken des Landforstineisteys Dr.jtir. Danckel- 

 fnann in %einer Ei^enschaft ah Oberfor%tbeamter der akademrschen Lehr- 

 reviere mitbesonderem Bezu\^eaufd<e Oberforsttfrei Freienwalde Zcu.^clu itt 

 fiir Forst- und Jagflwesen, December, 1905, pp. 778-790. 



