86 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Expenditure. 



Supervision, ..... ;^9o 



Works (planting, repairs to roads and buildings), 142 



^232 



The net annual revenue was therefore ^^6782, or j[^2, 6s. 

 per acre. It is noted, however, that fellings were less during 

 the previous ten years (1870-1889), when only 230,020 cubic 

 feet were felled. 



This is said to be one of the few mountain forests in France 

 where the red-deer still exists. As a rule, in France, red-deer 

 are chiefly found in plain forests of broad-leaved trees. 



The Communal and State Forests of G^rardmer.^ 



By Professor Fisher, Royal Indian Engineering College, 

 Coopers Hill. 



(From Notes by M. Ingoi.d, Inspecteur des Eaux et Forets, Gerardmer.) 



Geology and Forest Soil. 



At Gerardmer the underlying rock is everywhere a grey 

 granite, greatly resembling Aberdeen granite, which aff"ords by 

 its disintegration a loamy soil that is rendered moist by the 

 impermeable nature of the rock, through which water cannot 

 percolate. 



THE COMMUNAL FOREST. 



Area and Relief. 



The Communal Forest of Gerardmer contains 2359 acres, and 

 it varies in altitude from 2200 to 3250 feet. 



Crop. 



The crop consists of 58 per cent, of spruce (mostly planted), 

 40 per cent, of natural growth of silver fir, and 2 per cent, of 



' Reproduced, by permission, from The Land Agents' Record of lOth 

 September 1904. 



