CONTENTS. 



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1. The Future of Forestry. By Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. . i 



2. Co operation between the State and Private Owners for 



Afforestation of Barren Land. By Captain Sydney 



Gammell ....... 4 



3. Home-grown Pit-wood. By Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Bart. 11 



4. Continental Notes — France. By A. G. Hobart- Hampden . 13 



5. Deputation to Scottish Members of Parliament 20 



6. Hy/astes cuniciilariiis. Er., and its Relation to the Forest 



(withPlate). By James W.Munro, B.Sc (Agr.), B.Sc; For.) 25 



7. Forestry and Income Tax . . .31 



8. The State Nurseries and Plantations of New Zealand 36 



9. Correspondence with the Development Commission, May 



June 1916 ....... 38 



10. The Development Fund and Forestry . .44 



11. Root Rot of Coniferous Seedlings . .47 



12. Scrub and Old Oak Coppice Woods. By J. M. Murray, 



B.Sc. ........ 50 



13. Forestry Developments at Craibstone. By P. Leslie, M.A., 



B.Sc 53 



14. Particulars of the Farm of Borgie. Presented to the State 



by the Duke of Sutherland ..... 56 

 15 The Coniferous Forests of Eastern North America {To he 



continued). By Dr Roland M. Harper -59 



Notes and Queries : — The Society's Roll of Honour : Fourth 

 List — Forestry and Young People — The Planting of Berry- 

 bearing Trees round Coniferous Woods— Forest Surveys 

 — The Relation between the Price of Coal and of Pit-wood 

 — Death Duties on Woods — Diseases of the Common 

 Spruce iPicea excelsa) : Observations in Darnaway Forest 

 — The Poplar ....... 66 



Reviews and Notices of Books : — Tree Wounds and Diseases, * 

 their Prevention and Treatment, with Special Chapter on 

 Fruit Trees. By A. D. Webster. London : Williams 

 and Norgate ....... 74 



British-Grown Timber and Timber Trees. By Angus D. 

 Webster. With 41 full-page plates. London : William 

 Rider & Son, Limited, 1916. Price 5s. . . 75 



The Testing of Forest Seeds during Twenty- Five Years, 



1887-1912. By Johannes Rafn . . . "6 



Seeding and Planting : A Manual for the Guidance of 

 Forestry Students, Foresters, Nurserymen, Forest Owners 

 and Factors. By James W. Toumey, M.S., M.A, 

 Director of Forest School and Professor of Silviculture, 

 Yale University . . -77 



Obituary :— Mr A. T. Gillanders— Mr W. M. Gilbert 78 



