488 Forestry Quarterly. 



quite early, and of plants which lag in the first few years not 

 much is to be expected, while those that start out properly have 

 the promise of success in them. 



Formen und Abarten der germeinen Kiefer. Zeitschrift fiir Forst- u. 

 Jagdwesen. Jan., 191 1, pp. 1-32. 



The question of the influence of the 



Seed derivation of seed is being carefully looked 



Supply. into by the Swedish Forest Experiment 



Station. Gunnar Schotte reports on ex- 

 periments started in 1903 with pine seed from different localities 

 in Sweden. The results are not yet definite in all respects, but it 

 is evident that the far northern form of Pinus silvestris (lap- 

 pa nic a) iurnishQS smaller plants than the seed from more south- 

 ern localities. Whether the age of trees from which seed is 

 secured is of influence on the resulting plants could not be fully 

 decided, except that the oldest seed trees with a few exceptions 

 furnished the poorest plants. The stoutest plants were secured 

 sometimes from middle aged, sometimes from the youngest 

 mother trees. Nevertheless the author thinks that the prejudice 

 against seed from young trees is justified. In the form of plants 

 a strong variation is visible, the Norrland pines having very much 

 shorter branches and generally narrower form with shorter but 

 broader leaves. 



Om bctydclscn af froets hemort och modertr'ddets alder vid tallkultur. 

 Meddelanden fran Statens Skogsforsoksanstalt. H. 7, 1910. 



In the annual report of the Swedish Forest 

 Coloring Experiment Station for 1910 appears an 



of article by Gunnar Schotte which should be 



Imported of interest to x\merican foresters in view of 



Forest Seed. the fact that we are inclined to ignore the 

 influence of the source of seed in artificial 

 afforestation. The article is devoted largely to a description of 

 the methods employed by the Government for limiting the impor- 

 tation of southern seed, rather than to a demonstration of its in- 

 feriority for Swedish culture, the latter point apparently having 

 teen already established. It is the latter phase of the subject, 

 however, which is of special interest to us. 



It has been found in Sweden that pine forests {Pinus sil- 

 vestris) established from seed imported from southern coun- 



