i6o Forestry Quarterly. 



home made. White and Yellow Pine is the chief lumber im- 

 ported in the Valencia district; beech from Austria-Hungary and 

 the Balkans is preferred for furniture, coach building and cabinet 

 making. 



lyumber Trade Journal, November i, 1910. 



A comparison of present conditions in a 

 Silvicultural forest with the forest description and 



History. working plan of a hundred and twenty 



years ago is one of the interesting possi- 

 bilities in Germany. This stock taking and planning were made 

 like many since, as a preventive measure against an impending 

 wood-famine. On making such a comparison, the present for- 

 ester finds the soil has improved with the change from coppice 

 and mixed forest to high forest ; that conifers have been intro- 

 duced by way of experiment on soils which produce higher re- 

 turns under hardwoods; that in that day some minor species^ 

 notably birch, were given consideration, where now they are 

 disregarded as timber trees. 



Highly satisfactory results have come from natural regenera- 

 tion of spruce, and natural seeding has maintained an admixture 

 of cherry in oak stands. The wonder is how in the face of such 

 excellent results natural regeneration was in the last half of the 

 nineteenth century so entirely neglected and planting practiced 

 instead. The hope thereby to gain the four or five years repre- 

 sented by the age of the plants when set out seems to have been 

 the controlling factor. 



FichtenverjUngung einst und jetzt. Silva. June, 1910, pp. 193-5. 



In these days of budding forest administra- 



Austria tions on the American continent the ex- 



Reform tended discussion by Kubelka of the needs 



of of reform in an old established organiza- 



Forest tion are, or ought to be, of interest, even 



Administration. though only the principles underlying the 



organization are of value to us. 

 The article follows a monographic discussion of the same sub- 

 ject by Charbulas, and goes into minute details, describing exist- 

 ing organization and criticizing it. It discusses the division of 

 labor among the forest officials, and here criticizes the lack of 



