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plant 25 nuts every year. Savoie, New Come, Anse Kerlan, 
Anse Georgette, Pointe Chevalier, Fond Boffay, Pointe Zanguilles 
are other Crown lands of Praslin where coco-de-mer palms grow 
here and there, but on these Crown lands the soil is too much 
worn out to allow the palms to grow under normal conditions, 
and they are all stunted in growth. 
‘Attempts to grow coco-de-mer palms in Maho have 
succeeded well. There are a few at Government House and at 
the Botanic Station which are bearing. Therefore, no appre- 
hension need be felt regarding the disappearance of this unique 
species of palm.” 
Studies in French Forestry.*—This book is the work of 
Mr. Theodore 8. Woolsey, Jr., a consulting forester of the United 
States, America, and executive member of the Inter-allied War 
Timber Committee, Paris, 1917-1919, with two chapters by 
Mr. William B. Greeley, an official of the United States Forest 
Service. The work is in English and is descriptive of the principal 
features of French Forestry as they appeal to a foreign student, 
amplified by extracts from French literature and observations by 
French forest officers. The book was in course of preparation 
before the war, but its publication was postponed, and it now 
carries French forestry to a post-war date. his will give it 
considerable historic value in the future, for it not only places 
upon record the important part played by the forests of France 
in the prosecution of the late war and describes the activities of 
the Forestry Section of the United States Army in France, but 
indicates the ingenious methods and precautions adopted by the 
French people to preserve their forests from destruction, and to 
maintain as far as possible the sequence of their working plans, 
without starving the allied army or seriously crippling French 
industry by too strict economy in the provision of timber. 
The first chapter reviews the economic, legal, and administrative 
problems affecting the forests and is followed by a chapter 
describing the influence of the forests on the country, climate 
and people. The various forest regions are then reviewed and 
descriptions given of the various commercial trees, and the steps 
taken to establish and preserve forests in places subject to serious 
soil erosion, the control of erosion in mountainous regions being 
given special prominence. Considerable space is\devoted to the 
historic and economic associations of the resin- and turpentine- 
yielding forests of Maritime Pine established upon the sand dunes 
of the Landes and Gironde, but the subject is not overdone, for 
this is one of the classic illustrations of a large area of waste, 
desolate, and unhealthy land, which provided a precarious living 
for a few peasants, being transformed into a valuable residential 
* “Studies in French Forestry,” by Theodore 8. Woolsey, Jr., with two 
chapters by William B. Greeley, published in New York by —. ea 
Wiley & Sons, Inc., and in London by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, A 
1920. Price 36/— net. 
