198 Forestry Quarterly. 



The same author, Wagner, in another 



Selection polemic article, defends his position as re- 



Versus gards the value of timber forest when com- 



Timber Forest. pared with selection forest. He accentu- 

 ates that while the ideal of the selection 

 forest may fill the soul of the young forester, when he comes into 

 the practice he finds that this ideal meets too great difficulties in 

 German forestry practice, that it is a picture of the imagination, 

 a phantom, not realizable in the German forest, but, the author 

 reiterates, he is speaking only for Germany. He stands on 

 Gayer's dictum : "If then the selection form cannot any more 

 claim the significance of a regular forest management, it remains 

 an inexhaustible source for the study of the forest and its laws." 



He then discusses three points, namely, the technical quality of 

 wood grown in the selection forest, the site as producer of results 

 ascribed to the system, and the question as to whether an eco- 

 nomic judgment of the system can now be had for Germany, or 

 whether the basis for such judgment is still lacking. 



He comes to the conclusion, that the average quality of the 

 selection forest product is inferior to the timber forest product, 

 which is so often overlooked by citing extraordinary quality. 

 Damage to the timber in the fellings is largely responsible for this 

 average result. While the selection form undoubtedly preserves 

 soil conditions, the strip selection form does the same, and it is 

 still to be proved that regular timber forest does not do the same. 



The difficulty of the harvest without damage appears the most 

 important objection to selection form ; another difficulty is that it 

 prevents economic oversight and order, a sufficiently sure weigh- 

 ing of results. Hence for the German economic world this form 

 in most conditions is undesirable. 



Blenderwald oder schlagzveiser Hochwald. Forstwissenschaftliches Cen- 

 tralblatt, January, 1909, pp. 23-39. 



Dr. Schwappach reports on the condition 



American of plantations of conifers made on waste 



Species lands of Schleswig-Holstein. Scotch Pine 



in and Norway Spruce have not done well. 



Schleswig. Old stands of the first named species are 



rare. The author knows of only one 60 to 



80 years old in prosperous condition. Pine suffers from Schiitte 



