Io6 TRANSACTIONS OK ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



establishing a yama-mori-be — an office for the protection of 

 forests. In 1880, edicts were issued for the afforestation of 

 wild lands, and in 1886 a modern system of forest administration 

 was introduced, which was further completed by the promulga- 

 tion, in 1897, of the present forestry law. 



{b) Afore station. — In 1912, 362,000 acres of wild lands were 

 planted with seedlings, numbering altogether 544,133,000, while 

 the seeds sown amounted to :6o bushels, the expense incurred 

 being 4,300,000 yen. Nursery beds. — The forestry bureau of the 

 Government maintains, at different places throughout the country, 

 nursery beds covering altogether an area of 2160 acres, in 

 which in 191 2 were sown 2905 bushels of seeds, from which 

 were obtained 337,434 seedling trees. 



Subsidiary products of the forests were as follows : — 



Yen.i 



Spars and other smaller timber , 



Charcoal 



Planks . 



Seedlings 



Wood for clogs . 



Railway sleepers 



Material for making boxes 



Mushrooms 



Sen-no-ki 



Cryptomeria bark 



Stones excavated from forest lands 



Other miscellaneous products . 



Total 



47,990,000 

 21,792,000 

 22,039,000 

 4,744,000 

 2,940,000 

 1,773,000 

 1,609,000 

 1,563,000 

 1,321,000 

 1,098,000 

 5,810,000 

 9,810,000 



122,489,000 



The above facts are extracted from the guide-book issued by 

 the Imperial Japanese Government Railway. 



^ A yen is equivalent to about 2s. 



Agricultural Forestry. 



The importance of shelter-belts on upland farms is recognised, 

 but not to the extent it ought to be. Here and there in various 

 parts of the country are to be seen examples of what provident 

 landowners have accomplished by the skilful planting of trees. 



One of the best of these examples is to be found in County 



