^36 Forestry Quarterly. 



lowing treatment before sowing: The berries were rubbed apart 

 and laid in wet ashes, so that three times as much ashes as berries 

 were mixed with them, leaving them in the ashes three weeks. 

 The ashes were then washed out, and the berries laid in boxes of 

 wet sand, one layer of berries to four or five thicknesses of sand. 

 These were then dampened and buried in the ground from the 

 spring until the next autumn when the seed including the sand, 

 was sown broadcast. They sprouted the following spring. 

 Vienna, December 31, 191 1. 



A later letter refers to the decline of the Slavonic oak forests. 



