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the mountains of France, of the Baltic provinces (called " Riga 

 Pine"), of Sweden and of Norway, the other of the plains of 

 Central Europe (including Haguenau). The former he considers 

 superior to the latter ; they have straight boles, well cleared of 

 branches to a great height, with little developed, narrow and 

 pointed crowns. The bark of the stems is red (instead of 

 black), thin (less than half an inch for stems of 20 to 24 inches 

 diameter), fairly smooth (in plaques, instead of deep cracks), 

 and with the appearance of a snake's skin. The leaves are 

 short and dark coloured. 



M. Hickel was engaged on the felling of Scots pine for the 

 American army during the war, and when he needed stems of 

 great length — say 70 to 90 feet — he only found them among 

 the Riga pines. These latter can be seen as plantations along- 

 side others from German seed. Unfortunately, previous to 1870,. 

 a great deal of Haguenau seed was used in France. 



M. Hickel says little about the quality of the timber, however, 

 though he quotes Bagneris as saying that the Haguenau pine 

 was of mediocre value, having grown at the limit of its station 

 in the plains. One would like to have the point elucidated, for 

 mere appearance is not important. As a fact the prices received 

 for the Haguenau pine are sometimes better than those attained 

 by the other pine. 



VII. — M. Ph. Bauby considers that the Taxodm??i distichum 

 (the " Deciduous Cypress," called by him the "Bald Cypress") 

 could very well be used to plant up the non-saline marshes of 

 the Rhone delta, of which there are 20,000 acres in the Depart- 

 ment of the Bouches du Rhone alone. These marshes are 

 sometimes dry in summer. They are grazed or mown, but 

 cultivation is impossible. Their annual revenue varies from 

 8 to 24 francs per acre. No valuable tree grows in the really 

 wet places. Eucalypts have been suggested, but they are 

 frozen in this area, and broken by the " Mistral," the well- 

 known violent north-west wind. However, it was found that 

 as soon as the stems were broken or frozen a number of root- 

 suckers appeared. This is a common experience (in so far as 

 felling or breaking are concerned), and I have especially 

 noticed it in India with the Sissoo {Dalbergia Sissoo), where 

 both root-suckers and coppice-shoots appear in enormous 

 quantities after the felling of the parent stems. Further, it may 

 be mentioned that at the forest garden at Chaubuttia, in the 



