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die ill a few years. The results on this area indicate that mistle- 

 toe-infested trees should be marked mercilessly, regardless of 

 zcliether openings in the forest result.* 



The results on this area as well as on other areas on the Coco- 

 nino and Tusayan, cut from five to ten years ago, indicate that 

 natural reproduction is at best a slow process from which nothing 

 tangible can ordinarily be expected in less than fifteen or twenty 

 years. This must give us pause. To a rotation of at least 160 

 years is added another twenty years during which one waits for 

 reproduction. One-eighth of the rotation ! It is interesting to 

 note how accurately Mr. Woolsey predicted this in United States 

 Forest Service Bulletin 101, where he says (p. 48) : "It is not 

 known how long the reproduction period must last, but probably 

 fifteen years, and perhaps twenty will pass before satisfactory 

 regeneration takes place." 



A. B. R. 



Basket Willow Culture. By George N. Lamb. Farmers' Bull. 

 622, U. S. Dept. Agr., Washington, D. C, 1914. Pp. 34. 111. 



This publication discusses the various kinds of basket willows 

 and the methods of growing them which have been found best 

 as a result of experiments conducted at the forest service willow 

 farm at Arlington, Va., and a study of private holts throughout 

 the country. It also deals with the cost of establishment and main- 

 tenance of willow holts and the opportunities for marketing the 

 products. 



The Forest Service has distributed thousands of willow cuttings 

 during the last few years and enough successful plantings have 

 resulted to indicate that basket willow culture on a commercial 

 scale is feasible in all parts of the country, except in the arid and 

 semiarid regions, at high altitudes, and in portions of the South. 

 Along the Mississippi, however, they have grown well almost 

 to the Gulf. At present the industry is not extensive. 



According to this bulletin, the most difficult problem in basket 

 willow culture in America is that of getting the rods peeled by 



*In contrast note instructions for marking as quoted by Woolsey in 

 article loc. cit., pp. 496 and 497. 



