NOTES ON CONTINENTAL FORESTRY IN 1905. 179 
Professor Hornberger of Miinden has published the results of 
his experiments, which tend to show that Professor Henry of 
Nancy was completely wrong in the conclusions he arrived at; 
but the latter points out that the Minden results could not be 
other than they were, owing to their having been carried out 
under defective conditions, which naturally led to conclusions 
previously obtained by Kostytcheff under similar conditions. 
From an article on experiments in spraying young Scots pine 
in nurseries from the middle of June till the end of August, it 
appears that the Burgundy spray (a solution of Heufeld’s copper- 
soda in cold water) is easier to prepare and cheaper than, and 
equally as effective as, spraying with the Bordeaux mixture (a 
solution of copper, vitriol, and lime), and its use is strongly 
recommended in young plantations to keep down the heavy 
outlay sometimes occasioned in beating up blanks caused by 
the attacks of the leaf-shedding disease (Lophodermium Pinastrt). 
Two of the German forest academies celebrated their seventy- 
fifth anniversary in 1905—Eisenach (in Saxe-Weimar) having 
been founded in June 1830, and Neustadt-Eberswalde (near 
Berlin) in August 1830. Eisenach has been under three 
directors only,—Konig, Grebe, and Stoetzer,—and though the 
question of transferring the course of instruction from Eisenach 
to Jena University has more than once been suggested, it is 
considered best to retain the academy in its convenient proximity 
to large and instructive woodlands. Neustadt-Eberswalde, on 
the other hand, was founded as an off-shoot from Berlin Univer- 
sity, to provide better technical instruction near the woodlands 
than could be arranged for in the capital. The great outstand- 
ing figure in connection with it is Danckelmann, who was 
director for nearly thirty-five years (1866 to 1901). It will bea 
long time before any such anniversary celebrations will be held 
in Britain. 
