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on the whole encouraging, especially as regards spruce, and 

 tend to show that with crops of better density a high annual 

 increment may be looked for even on soils of inferior quality. 

 If work on somewhat similar lines can be carried on in future 

 years, it should eventually become possible to construct reliable 

 Yield Tables made in Britain instead of Germany. 



The rainfall during the growing season of 191 o was as 

 under : — 



The summer was on the whole a fine one with a fair amount 

 of warmth, except in the month of August which was exception- 

 ally wet and sunless. September was unusually dry, but it is 

 more than three years since less than an inch of rain fell in 

 any month. 



8. Continental Notes — France. 



By A. G. Hobart-Hampden. 



We may appropriately begin these notes, drawn as they are 

 from French forest publications, by quoting the late M. Charles 

 Broilliard, the very eminent French forester who died during the 

 past year. He writes of the re-establishment of forests in 

 France, where, as here, people are much exercised on the 

 subject. It is true that the proportion of woodland is very much 

 greater in France than in the United Kingdom, but in France 

 the results of deforestation are very disastrous, as witness the 

 great floods which at frequent intervals cause such devastation 

 — more especially in the south along the banks of the rivers 

 rising in the Pyrenees. Lately, too, we have heard of terrible 

 floods in the Seine. In regard to this last case it is possible that 

 some people are spoiling a good case by attributing to disforest- 

 ment more than can fairly be put down to it. The basin of the 

 Seine is not unusually bare, though Champagne might have 

 more forests with advantage. The s opes are not great enough 



