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is able to speak with well-assured knowledge, and gives concise 
and sufficient instructions on most of the ordinary branches 
of estate nursery-work, including seed-sowing, transplanting 
seedlings, planting cuttings, etc. His criticism of the “bent 
one-sided ‘ walking-stick handle’ roots” of some of the public 
nurserymen’s transplants is no more than just, but it is only 
fair to say that not all nurserymen are sinners in this respect. 
We know from experience that the author’s advice as to 
mulching seed-beds, etc., as a substitute for watering is most 
excellent, and it is a matter that has not received sufficient 
attention at the hands of practical men. His remarks on 
manuring the nursery are not, however, very consistent. On 
the ground that trees derive most of their food from the 
atmosphere, he holds (page 34) that very little manuring is 
necessary, yet immediately after, he very rightly recommends 
heavy dressings of leaf-mould, which, as every gardener and 
every nurseryman knows, is, in respect of combined chemical 
and mechanical effects, the best of all manures, but in ordinary 
forestry operations it cannot always easily be obtained. 
The author puts forward the opinion that the strongest 
seedlings will always keep the lead, and produce the largest 
trees and crops of timber in a given space of time, and in a 
footnote he claims to have been the first to draw attention 
to the matter, in Zhe Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1904; but, if we 
mistake not, Dr Somerville discussed this important question 
very fully in an article on experiments with tree-seeds in these 
Transactions in 1897. J). Bagh 
Vocabulaire Forestiere: Francais— Anglais— Allemand. By J. 
GERSCHEL, Agrégé de l'Université, Professeur d’Anglais et 
dAllemand & lEcole nationale des Eaux et Foréts de 
Nancy. Quatritme édition, revue et considérablement 
augmentée. Berger-Levrault & Cie., Editeurs, Paris, 5 Rue 
des Beaux-arts; Nancy, 18 Rue des Glacis, 1905. Price 5s. 
In the Preface to this edition of his Vocabulaire Foresttere, 
Professor Gerschel mentions that some years ago he proposed to 
the Inspector-General of Forests for India to add to the second 
edition of the book an English part, but that the Inspector-General 
thought this would necessarily be very incomplete, owing to the 
paucity of technical forestry terms in English. Since then a 
