180 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Within certain limits, and in a modified form, the two are indeed 

 well associated one with another. In regard to grouse shootings, 

 much land may be afforested and yet enough may remain for 

 purposes of sport. Pheasants may be raised in great numbers 

 in properly managed woods, as Germany and Austria can sufficiently 

 show. Red deer would enormously benefit from the presence of 

 forest, and if rabbits must be held more in check, so will their 

 damage to tillage crops and pastures be lessened, to the material 

 advantage of agriculture. 



To effect an improvement in forestry is not easy, because it rests 

 upon scientific and technical hypotheses ; but in Britain it is 

 specially difficult, because of the deep-rooted views of the land- 

 owning class, with whom the forestry problem rests. In this 

 conneciion, as already remarked, the absence of large State forest 

 property is sadly felt. 



Until little more than a year ago, forestry had no official repre- 

 sentative within the administration. The Office of Woods and 

 Forests is not of this nature. It conducts the management of 

 State domains in general ; to it belong, of course, the Crown 

 woods, but the yearly revenue of about half a million sterling 

 comes from quite different sources — chiefly coal-mines and London 

 property. 



Until the Committee was appointed by the late Mr Hanbury 

 to incpiire into the present state of matters, British forestiy was 

 almost exclusively fostered by two large associations — the Royal 

 Scottish and the English Arboricultural Societies These names 

 are themselves significant, the word arboriculture being distinct 

 from sylviculture or forestry proper. The published Transactions 

 of these Societies show, however, that in spite of their names, they 

 struggle zealously and successfully for the benefit of forestry. 



The present facilities for technical education in forestry must be 

 regarded as quite insufficient. The subject is taught in the following 

 places. In the University of Edinburgh ^ there is a lectureship for 

 forestry : the lectures — yearly one hundred hours — are delivered 

 chiefly to students who will later become estate factors or farmers. 

 In Edinburgh also, evening classes in forestry are held at the 

 Botanic Garden for gardeners and foresters. The cost of forestry 

 instruction in Edinburgh is only in pai-t borne by the State, the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society paying a considerable portion of 



' See "Forestry at the University of Edinburgh," ji. '206. — Ed. 



