EXPERIMENTS WITH TREE SEEDS, 147 
seed before it has quite lost its green colour, and sowing it at 
once. This period will usually be reached about the end of 
October, an1 we have this year arranged an experiment to test 
the point, but with what success remains to be seen. 
I have recorded the results of these simple experiments, not so 
much for the information that they convey, as in the hope that 
they may encourage some of the younger members of the Society 
to take up similar work. There are many simple problems of a 
forestal character, whose solution only requires the careful avoid- 
ance of disturbing factors of growth, scrupulous accuracy in all 
weighings, measurements, and record-keeping, and a little patience, 
but which are yet capable of adding considerable interest to the 
routine of a forester’s occupation, and of furnishing results of no 
small practical importance. 
