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practice. The forest management of to-day is too extensive to 

 allow of applying Wagner's methods without undue sacrifices of 

 profitable administration." 



In a personal letter, Professor Schwappach says further: "I 

 do not question that border cuttings as a method of natural re- 

 generation of certain species, namely, of spruce and fir, will 

 bring good results; that, the regeneration direction from north 

 to south has advantages. But I cannot see the expediency of 

 applying this method to all species, nor the possibility of carry- 

 ing out the method as one of regulated management." 



Professor Wagner himself upon receipt of a reprint of the 

 article on "Border Cuttings a Suggested Departure in American 

 Silviculture" in the Proceedings of the Society of American For- 

 esters, Volume VII, No. 2, wrote: 



"I am very eager to know how my proposition will be taken 

 up in America and what results it will have. A colleague in 

 America has informed me that there too regeneration is easiest 

 on the north border of a stand, and my own meteorological studies 

 seem to indicate that in America, in average latitudes, the cli- 

 matic conditions are similar to ours, and that the most important 

 rain storms in America, also, come from the southwest and west. 



"Entirely different, of course, are the conditions of marketing 

 the crop- However, I believe that these will approach more and 

 more to those prevailing in Europe. The only pity is that the 

 conversion from virgin forests to managed forests everywhere, 

 even in Europe, is of such a kind as to mean great loss in forest 

 productivity. If the entire net work of roads and of logging ways 

 could be built up before cutting begins, this loss could be avoided, 

 which unfortunately is not now possible." A. B. R. 



Dr. Dieterich reviews Kubelka's recent 



Management work : "Die intensive Berwirtschaftung der 



of Hochgebirgsforste"* (the intensive man- 



Mountain Forests, agement of high mountain forests) which is 



based on long experience in Austria. The 



book is filled with the spirit of Wagner's ideas as contained in 



the latter's book on Border Cuttings (See Forestry Quarterly, 



Vol. VIII, No. 3, p. 366 and Vol. X, No. 4, p. 699). 



*W. Frick, Graben 27, Vienna, Austria, Price 2 Marks (48 cents). 



