CONTENTS. 



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Notes and Queries : — Arboriculture and Arable Land—The 

 Ardgoil Estate— Afforestation of Surplus Lands— Forest 

 Preservation in the United States — Afforestation of Re- 

 claimed Lands— Basic Slag on Seed- Beds (with Plate)— 

 Working-Plan for the Ardross Woods — Forestry at the 

 West of Scotland Agricultural College— Forestry at the 

 University of Edinburgh — Chair of Forestry at Cambridge 

 — Forestry Appointment at Inverliever — Wood : its 

 Botanical and Technical Aspect — The Cost of Fencing- 

 Experimental Study of Larch Canker— The Foresters' 

 and Gardeners' Society of Argyll— Some recent Forestry 

 Books, ........ 222 



Reviews and Notices of Books :— Forest Entomology. By A. 

 T. Gillanders, F.E.S., Wood Manager to the Duke of 

 Northumberland, xxii + 422 pp., including Index. 351 

 Illustrations. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1908. 

 Price 15s., ....... 238 



Trees and their Life - Histories. By Percy Groom. 

 London : Cassell & Co. Price 25s. net. With 512 

 Illustrations, ....... 239 



Webster's Foresters' Pocket Diary (Sixth Edition) for 

 1908, for the use of Foresters, Estate Agents, Nursery- 

 men. 2s. 6d. net. London : William Rider & Son, Ltd., 240 



Laws of the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 1908, with Appendices. 



List of Members. 



