212 'transactions of royal Scottish arboricultural society. 



farm exacted from students for the latter Degree. Men who could 

 earn such a Degree would not compare unfavourably with those 

 who passed through the French Forest School in former days. 

 Most of these latter have attained high positions in the Indian 

 Forest Service, and have been instrumental in building up the 

 splendid system under which the vast State forests of India, 

 covering nearly 120,000 square miles, have not only been rescued 

 from destruction, but are year by year growing more valuable, 

 and yield a rapidly rising annual surplus revenue. 



