36 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
8. Working-Plan, 1905 to 1919, of the Castle 
Hill Woodlands. 
By FRASER STORY, University College of North Wales, Bangor. 
This is a Provisional Working-Plan designed to regulate the 
management of the North Devon woods of the Right Honour- 
able Earl Fortescue for the fifteen years from 1905 to 1919. 
It is a most welcome addition to the slowly increasing number 
of British working-plans. It is a strange reflection upon our 
forestry methods, that until some ten years ago, systematic 
forest plans were unknown in this country. Even yet only 
about half a dozen working-plans are actually in operation. 
Of plans that have been published in the 7vansactions of the 
Scottish Arboricultural Society, the first to appear was the 
scheme of management for the Pit-Wood Working Circle at 
Raith. This was drawn up for Mr Munro Ferguson’s woods 
in Fifeshire, and is given in the TZyvansactions for 18098 
(Vol. XV. p. 223). In the following year a plan for Novar 
woods was prepared, and appeared in the Zyansactions (Vol. 
XVI. p. 25). In tgoo was issued Dr .Nisbet’s working-plan 
for the woods belonging to Lord Selborne in Hampshire, and 
early in the present year (1906) appeared a scheme for the 
treatment of the Alice Holt Forest by Dr W. Schlich (see 
Transactions, Vol. XIX. p. 83). Among working-plans of 
importance that have not found their way into our Society’s 
record of proceedings are those for the Forest of Dean and 
High Meadow Woods, by the late Mr H. C. Hill. These 
plans were prepared and printed in 1897. In addition to 
the working-plans noted above, are one or two which have not 
been published; still, it must be admitted that the drawing out 
of schemes of management.is not making rapid progress. 
On this account the present report, by Professor W. R. Fisher, 
M.A., makes all the more pleasant reading. 
The woods on the Castle Hill Estate extend to 11683 
acres, but as 1364 acres are reserved for ornamental woods, 
1032} acres only are dealt with in the Plan. Of this area, 
463} acres bear woods of broad-leaved species, while 5683 
acres are occupied by conifers. The principal deciduous trees 
on the estate are larch, oak (both Quercus pedunculata and 
Q. sesstliflora), ash, alder, and hazel. All the commoner 
