140 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XIII. A Short Account of the State Forests of Prussia (including 
Hanover), and Messrs Heins’ Nursery at Halstenbeck, visited 
by the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, July-August 
1895, -Prepared from Official Sources by Dr SoMERVILLE, 
THE STATE FORESTS OF LINTZEL. 
29th July. 
During the last nineteen years much has been done in the 
Province of Hanover in the direction of advancing the interests 
of Forestry. The State itself has spent considerable sums on 
the purchase of land suitable for tree-planting, and it has also 
created a special fund from which private individuals, associations, 
and communities may borrow at a low rate of interest—including 
redemption of capital—for the purpose of creating forests. 
At Lintzel in the district of Liineburg, and at Northeim on the 
Weper, the Hanoverian State Forests extend to 11,725 acres, and 
a recent purchase of peaty land near Gross Fullen (designed for 
forestry investigations and the establishment of a colony for the 
unemployed) embraces nearly 1092 acres. The amount of land 
placed under forests by the help of the loan-fund above referred 
to is at present 16,644 acres, so that it will be seen that the action 
of the Provincial Legislature has resulted in the afforestation of 
29,461 acres. 
[The Special Forest Loan-Fund was created by an Act of the 
Provincial Legislature on 38rd October 1877, and on 16th October 
1880 it was enacted that Associations formed for acquiring land 
for tree-planting should be able to borrow at 2 per cent. interest 
plus other 2 per cent. for liquidation of the debt. The amount to 
be borrowed was limited to the sum expended in forming the 
woods ; a further condition being that the management of the 
woods should be subject to the approval of the State Department 
of Forestry until the debt had been extinguished. Private 
individuals might borrow under practically similar conditions, 
at 2 to 3 per cent. interest plus 2 per cent. for extinction of 
the debt.] 
Since 1880 the fund has been drawn upon to the following 
extent :— 
Class of Borrower. Amount borrowed. Area afforested. 
1. Forestry Associations, 2 SEY 2,334 acres, 
2. Towns and communities, . > Songs 1,585 ,, 
3. Private individuals, . : Sez2 7910 12,725 
3) 
Total, £33,877 16,644 ,, 
