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been, and still are, standing under the crown of a beech tree, 

 and are further incommoded by a considerable amount of lateral 

 shade ; they were not developing rapidly, but had an otherwise 

 healthy appearance. The young trees are found to suflfer from 

 frost, as do many other shade-bearing species, such as silver 

 fir and beech. The tree grows well on wet soil, and suffered 

 but little from the sulphur fumes which, a few years ago, caused 

 great damage to the woods of Loganbank. We were shown 

 a fence-stob, made from the timber of this species, which, its 

 point having been dipped in coal-tar, had stood in the ground 

 for twelve years. It was as sound as on the day the fence was 

 set up, the sawn point still showing its clean-cut surface and 

 edges. F. B. 



Appointments by the Department of Woods. 



The Deputy-Surveyorship of the Forest of Dean, vacant 

 through the death of the late Mr Philip Baylis, has been filled 

 by the appointment of Mr V. F. Leese, a qualified land agent. 



We are authorised to state that Mr E. P, Popert, formerly of 

 the Indian Forest Service, who has for some years past acted as 

 assistant to Mr Baylis in the Forest of Dean, has been appointed 

 Special Forestry Adviser to the Commissioners of Woods in 

 respect of all the Crown Forests and Woodlands. He will 

 arrange for the collection of data regarding their rate of develop- 

 ment and other matters which form the basis of a rational 

 management. He will personally superintend the working of 

 the Forest of Dean and the Highmeadows Woods, keeping up 

 the Control books and the records of the experimental plots, and 

 submitting annually to the Commissioners, through the Deputy- 

 Surveyor, a report on the work done in those woods, with pro- 

 posals for their future management. He will also superintend 

 the Government Forest School established in the Forest of Dean. 

 The appointment of Mr Popert appears to secure adequate and 

 long-needed professional control over the working of the Govern- 

 ment forest estates. 



Two Exceptional Trees. 

 On Newgate Bank, by the side of the road leading through 

 Lord Feversham's splendid larch woods into Bilsdale, in the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, there stands a holly tree of uncom- 



