526 Forestry Quarterly. 



The essential part of this new method is 



New Method the use of an instrument by which the seed 



of maiy be thrust into the ground with a 



Sowing motion of the foot. The depth to which 



in the the seeds are put is easily regulated and 



Mountains. the rapidity with which the seeds come 



from the reservoir can also be adjusted. 



In principle this instrument somewhat resembles a com planter 



but is especially adapted for use with small forest seeds which 



do not require a large reservoir but which must be sown in a 



shallow manner and not too close together. 



Bine neue Saatmethode im Gebirg. Forstwissenschaftliches Central- 

 blatt, April, 1912. Pp. 207-217. 



The best package for shipping seedlings so 



Packing far in general use are willow baskets, but 



Seedlings. they are expensive, require storage room, 



and do not last long if used for reshipping. 

 It is difficult to secure their return. Neuhaus reports the use of 

 wide-meshed wire netting, such as is used for training vines. 

 The material can be kept in rolls near the packing place, is light, 

 cheap and easily handled. At the end of the netting an inch 

 stick is pushed in, long enough to project 4 inches on either side; 

 the netting then is covered with fine hemlock or balsam brush and 

 moss ; the bunches of seedlings, 100 in the bunch, are placed, 10 

 bunches or 1000 plants for a set, root against root and tips out- 

 ward. A second stick is pushed through the netting at the outer 

 edge of the pack, the netting it cut, the two sticks drawn together 

 and tied together with wire four times — a handy, cheap and 

 efficient package. 



Netie Verpackungsmethode fur Pflanzen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur 

 Forstwesen. June, 1912. Pp. 195-196. 



A smile came over the face of the reviewer 



American when reading in the expose of Prof. 



Species Schwappach, that, because Betula lenta 



in does not succeed on soil of III site. "Ac- 



Germany. cording to recommendations of Femow, in 



Its place Betula lutea might be preferable." 



The confusion in nomenclature — Cherry Birch of the botanist, 



