2/8 Forestry Quarterly. 



and raw winds has a deteriorating effect, so that the nearer the 

 ocean the poorer the development. 



Walnut and Grapevine grow under 51.5° latitude, while the 

 more southern shores of Possjet bay is covered with northern 

 conifers. On the shores of the Amur, Black Birch and Oak 

 often show a stunted growth, while 20 miles away they develop 

 excellently. The great humidity of the climate is unfavorable; 

 rainfall and snow masses cause devastating floods. "An intelligent 

 destruction of the vegetation is undoubtedly required ; forest fires 

 are beneficial in settling the country." But the Russians go too 

 far in their use ; the Mongolians are more careful. 



The most important timber trees are Larix dahurica, most 

 widely distributed and most useful; Abies sihirica, Picea obovata 

 and Ajanensis; Finns silvestris, superior in quality to the Russian 

 pine; Finns mandschnrica, of inferior quality. Of broadleafed 

 species besides the walnut, an oak, a maple, a basswood, elm, 

 poplar, birch. Fhellodendron Amnrense, the corktree, Maakia 

 amnrensis, a small acacia-like tree. Schudra in 1895, before the 

 country was well-known, distinguishes seven regions : ( i ) the 

 farthest northern district with poor beech and birch growth; (2) 

 from Albasin to the mouth of the Seja, oak and birch, the growth 

 improving southward; (3) to the Bureja mountains, marsh lands 

 with poor underbrush ; (4) from these mountains down stream, 

 good broad leaf forest with pine interspersed; (5) from the 

 mouth of the Amur along the coast to Imperatorski bay, close 

 larch-spruce-fir forest, mostly stagheaded and rotten with fallen 

 timber; better, where protected from sea winds; (6) the middle 

 coast district, mixed forest of inferior value, larch, birch and 

 aspen prevalent; (7) South to Chinese boundary characterized 

 by luxuriant growth of fruit trees and grapes, Hard broadleaf 

 trees, and conifers of northern type of large dimensions in moun- 

 tains. 



Ucbersicht iiber das Porstwesen im Amurischen Getieralgouvernement, 

 1910. Zeitschrift fiir Forst- und Jagdwesen. January, 1912. Pp. 51-53. 



From an extensive abstract of the report 



Conditions of the Imperial Finance Minister for 191 1 



in on the economic conditions of Japan, we 



Japan brief the references to forest conditions. 



While only 18.5 million acres appear on 



the tax lists, the total area of forest is 51.9 million acres or 



