CONTENTS. 



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i8. Trees of Western America. By F. R. S. Balfour, . 121 



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



LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. (concluded from p. 21), . 131 



20. A Scheme for Establishing a National Industry of Forestry. 



By a Correspondent, ...... 135 



21. Root Disease in Scots Pine on Farm Lands (with Two 



Plates). By Bert. Ribbentrop, C.I.E., . . -143 



22. The Cultivation of Hardwoods. By J, Boyd (continued from 



P- 49), 150 



23. Impressions of Forestry in the Schwarzwald (with Two 



Plates). By J. F. Annand, ..... 159 



24. Notes of Silvicultural Interest. By Thomas Hall, 176 



25. Continental Notes — Germany. By Bert. Ribbentrop, CLE. , 180 



26. The Selection and Training of Probationers for the Imperial 



Forest Service of India. By J. Nisbet, D.CEc, formerly 

 Conservator of Forests, Burma, .... 191 



27. The Larch Shoot Moth {Argyresthia {Tinea) laevigatella) 



(with Plate). By R. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., D.Sc, 195 



28. Underplanting. By Lieut.-Colonel F. Bailey, . 198 



29. Experiments on the Relative Value of certain Timber 



Preservatives, ....... 201 



30. The Northern Branch of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 



Society — Visit to the Lovat and Novar Estates, . 205 



31. The Aberdeen Branch— Excursion to Durris, . . 215 



32. Forestry Section in the Scottish National Exhibition, Edin- 



burgh, 1908, organised by the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, ist May to 31st October, . . . 217 



