CONTENTS. V 



I'AGK 



19. The Development Act and Forestry. By the Right Hon. 



R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P., .... 140 



20. Forestry Education in«Great Britain, . .141 



21. The Belgian System of Planting on Turfs (with Plates). 



By Sir John Stirling- Maxwell, Bart., . -153 



22. On the Growth of the Sitka Spruce and other Trees in 



Linlithgowshire and Stirlingshire. By Henry M. Cadell 



of Grange, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., . . . . 158 



2;^. Seed Experiments with Pinus sy/uestris (with Plate). By 



Eraser Story, ....... 168 



24. Notes on Creosoting. By A. T. Gillanders, . . 172 



25. An Infestation by Pine Weevil {Hylobius abietis). By Donald 



Macdonald, ....... 180 



26. An Attack by the Weevil Strophosomus Coryli. By John 



Macrae, Forester, Highfield, Muir of Ord, . . .185 



27. The Large Larch Saw- Fly, ..... 186 



28. The Cultivation of Willows, . . . . .191 



29. Teredo naualis and other Sea- Worms. By Lieut. -Colonel 



Bailey, ........ 196 



30. Continental Notes— Germany. By B. Ribbentrop, CLE., . 204 



31. Indian State Forestry. By Saint-Hill Eardley-Wilmot, 



C.I.E., ........ 217 



32. The Importance of Forests in Military Defence. By Lieut. - 



Colonel Martin Martin, ..... 223 



23- The Protection of Timber against White Ants, . 227 



Notes and Queries : — Forestry Operations under the Irish 

 Department of Agriculture in 1909 — Larch Disease Fungus 

 —Mr Langhammer's Visit — Seeds of North American 

 Conifers — The Development and Road Improvement Funds 

 Act, 1909— Appointment— Bordeaux Mixture— Tree Felling 

 by Machinery — Wood- Pulp— The Timber Resources of 

 New Zealand— Preserving Sleepers from Decay, . . 229 



Reviews and Notices of Books :— Illustrations of Conifers. 

 Vol. II. By H. Clinton Baker. Printed privately by 

 Simson, Hertford, 1910. 72 pp., Quarto, with 89 full-page 

 Illustrations, ....... 235 



