234 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XVI. The Forest School at Eberswalde. By A. C. ForBEs, 
Farnham Royal, Slough, Bucks. 
The Royal Forest Academy at Eberswalde, in the province of 
Brandenburg, is (in conjunction with the Forest School at Munden, 
in Hanover) specially intended for the training of candidates for 
the Prussian forest service, and is controlled by the Minister of 
Agriculture, Domains, and Forests. Neustadt, Eberswalde, in 
the centre of which the academy stands, is a thriving and rapidly 
increasing town, about thirty miles north of Berlin, and is con- 
nected with the capital by the railroad between Berlin and Stettin. 
It possesses a population of about 16,000 inhabitants, and contains 
several extensive manufacturing works, which together employ a 
great number of hands. It doubtless owes much of its prosperity 
to the fact that it lies along the route of the Finow Canal, which 
skirts the north side of the town, and which affords cheap transit 
of goods either to Berlin or Stettin. This canal joins the river 
Oder at Oderberg, a town about twelve miles from Eberswalde, 
where many large saw-mills exist ; and large quantities of timber 
are floated down to Stettin, there to be manufactured and shipped. 
Several large saw-mills also exist at Eberswalde, for which the 
surrounding district provides abundance of raw material. The 
general appearance of the country, for miles around, closely resembles 
the counties of Moray and Nairn, although it is more heavily 
timbered, and none of those characteristic heathery moors are to 
be seen, the State being under the impression that timber-growing 
pays better than heather. The soil is extremely dry and arid, 
being little but white sand, although beds of clay and marl are met 
with here and there. Agriculture, in the immediate vicinity at 
least, cannot be said to be very highly developed, being chiefly con- 
fined to the cultivation of rye, potatoes, etc., the damper portions 
laid down to pasture, the nature of the soil being rather infertile 
generally. 
The town of Neustadt, Eberswalde, consists of two portions, the 
older lying to the east, with the streets rather narrow and badly 
paved, but they are kept very clean, and appear to have been laid 
out with some regularity. The older houses are almost entirely of 
wood, and substantially built. In the newer portion the streets 
are broader, and planted with trees, the principal street leading to 
the railway station being fully a quarter of a mile in length, while 
a still longer one has been anticipated by planting a double row of 
