352 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
recommending to him the cultivation of Lathyrus sylvestris, a 
strong perennial rooted species of the Everlasting Pea tribe, for 
the immense area of barren sandhills along the coast of Northern 
Germany, points out that it would form a far superior means 
for bringing these vast wastes under profitable and permanent 
cultivation than the planting of pine and fir trees. Little faith 
was, however, put in that statement, until its correctness had been 
visibly proved on a large scale by Imperial Privy Councillor of 
Commerce, Otto Kuchnemann, of Stettin, Pommerania, Germany, 
who had for many years, and at heavy expense, endeavoured to grow 
on his sandhills pine and fir trees, but had failed to succeed, the 
young trees being partly smothered or uprooted by the ever-shifting 
sand, and those surviving were vegetating so weakly that the 
attempt was tantamount to failure. Now a flock of sheep is kept 
on the Lathyrus fodder grown on the identical sandhills where six 
years ago not a blade of grass could be seen. 
