02 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



kinds next in order of impoi'tance being oak, lime, and silver fir. 

 The foi'est now being cut is aged from 120 to 140 years ; and it 

 yields 2450 cubic feet (solid) of wood per acre. Tliere is a good 

 deal of advance growth on the ground, especially at the lower 

 levels ; but, where this is wanting in sufficient quantity, the crop 

 is completed by planting. 



Before leaving the reservoir, we were shown the arrangements 

 for breeding trout, which are conducted by the forest officer, and 

 •we then drove back to llesicza, stopping for a short time at 

 Frdnzdorf, to see a dance given after a Roumanian peasant's 

 wedding. The women's dress consists of a white embroidered 

 garment, reaching to the ankles, a long and naiTow woollen band, 

 ■wound round the waist, and used for carrying loads, and a pair of 

 bright-coloured and richly ornamented woollen aprons, one worn 

 in front and the other behind, the latter ending in a long red 

 fringe, which falls to the bottom of the white skirt. A red- 

 flowered handkerchief, bound over the hair, completes a very 

 picturesque and semi-oriental costume. Most of the girls wore 

 bright-coloured natural flowers in their hair ; and the bride was 

 distinguished by a white wreath. 



The men are clad in white, with a coloui-ed jacket ; they wear 

 sandals, and wind strips of cloth loosely round the lower part of 

 the leg. The dance appeared to us a rather monotonous one ; 

 but those engaged in it, among whom was a large proportion of 

 remarkably handsome women, seemed to be enjoying themselves 

 thoroughly. 



On the morning of the next day, accompanied by M. Fery and 

 M. de Bene, we paid a second visit to the Bessemer works, where 

 we saw the making of railway-carriage wheels, and other things ; 

 and in the afternoon we mounted to the high ground above the 

 town, and inspected the wire-rope tramway, 270 yards long, used 

 for carrying down ore to the furnaces. There are two trucks, 

 one at each end of the I'ope ; the full truck in descending draws 

 up the empty one, so that no engine is required. We were told 

 that a wire-rope tramway, 17 miles long, and worked by steam- 

 power, is in use in Transylvania. 



Anina and the Danube. 



On the 20th of July we left Resicza, and drove 37 miles across 

 the hills to Anina, stopping on the way to examine the Bulgarian 

 village of Krassova, through which our road lay. The country 



