CONTENTS. 



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PAGB 



1. Discussion on Planting Distances . . . . i 



2. Planting Distance for Douglas Fir. By Brig. -Gen. Stirling 



of Keir ........ 9 



3. On Planting Distances for Conifers. By Mark L. Anderson, 



M.C., B.Sc. ....... 16 



4. Planting Distances. By the Honorary Editor . 25 



5. Finance in Estate Forestry. By John D. Sutherland, 



C.B.E., F.S.I. 29 



6. Forestry Commission ...... 36 



7. British Empire Forestry Conference. By F. R. S. Balfour 42 



8. Continental Notes — France. By A. G. Hobart- Hampden . 50 



9. Unfavourable Influence of too many Stems on the Soil 



Moisture in the case of Pine Soils of poor quality , 61 



10. Note regarding a Sitka Spruce Tree at Fonthill Abbey, 



Wiltshire ....... 63 



11. Treatment of Forest Seed-beds with Disinfectants to prevent 



Damping-off. By James Kay , . . .70 



Notes and Queries: — A Newly-recorded Disease on Japanese 

 Larch, caused by Phomopsis Pseudotsugae — The Museum 

 of British Forestry at Kew — Planting Distance for Douglas 

 Fir — The Diseases of the Douglas Fir — Effect of Pruning 

 Green Branches from Larch — Effect of Pruning Green 

 Branches from Spruce — Incidental Costs of Forestry — 

 Abies Menziesii at Keilour, Perthshire — Will Thuya gigantea 

 become a Timber of Value for Commercial Purposes ? . 73 



Reviews and Notices of Books : — Studies in French 

 Forestry. By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jun., writh two 

 chapters by William B. Greely. New York : John Wiley 

 and Sons, Inc. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1920 . 84 



