CONTENTS. 



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1. Heredity and Forestry. By William Somerville, M.A., 



D.Sc, D.CEc, Professor of Rural Economy, Oxford, i 



2. The Mountain Pine (with Five Plates). By Sir John 



Stirling-Maxwell, Bart.. ..... lo 



3. Soil: its Origin and Nature. By Professor James Geikie, 



LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. (continued from Vol. XX. 



p. 182.) II., ....... 16 



4. The Inverliever State Forest. By R. C. Munro Ferguson, 



MP, . . . .22 



5. State Afforestation in Scotland. By Lieut. -Colonel F. 



Bailey, ........ 27 



6. The Douglas Fir as a Commercial Timber-Tree (with 



Two Plates . By John D. Crozier, .31 



7. The Nursery Treatment of the Western or Californian 



Hemlock Spruce. By J. M. Murray, 



8. The Cultivation of Hardwoods. By J. Boyd, 



9. The Cultivation of Osiers. By Robert Sinclair, 



10. An Attack by Sawfly Larvae (with Plate). By Fred 

 Moon, ....... 



41 

 44 

 50 



52 



11. Forest Nurseries and Gardens — Some Suggestions. By 



Lieut. -Colonel F. Bailey, . . . .54 



12. The Afforestation Conference, ..... 60 



13. A Forest Tramway (with Plate). By Fred. Moon, 71 



14. Continental Notes -France. By A. G. Hobart-Hampden, . 73 



15. Notes on the Forestry Exhibition at the Lincoln Show of 



the Royal Agricultural Society of England, held June 



25th to 29th, 1907. By A Correspondent, . 83 



