64 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
14. Notes on Continental Forestry in 1906. 
By JoHN NIsBeT, D.Cic. 
FRANCE. 
The Revue des Eaux et Foréts, the semi-official fortnightly 
review of forestry in France, contains a large number of 
exceedingly interesting articles. It contains, in fact, such 
a wealth of valuable matter that it is hard to select for con- 
densation into a few pages what may seem of greatest interest, 
and may perhaps prove most suggestive to the British 
forester. 
Without considering so closely as in rg04 and 1905 the 
details of the forest budget, it may suffice merely to say that the 
receipts are estimated at £1,221,200, and the expenditure at 
4557,200, leaving a net revenue of £664,000, which is just 
about the same sum as the net income derived by the Govern- 
ment of India from the forests of British India. Of the gross 
expenditure, £200,380 are allotted to the maintenance and 
improvement of woodlands and mountain tracts, for the rewood- 
ing of which, and the conservation of the soil, no less than 
£135,000 are set apart. Although a vast amount of attention 
is given to the forests in France, not only by the Depart- 
ment of Woods and Waters and by Communal authorities, 
but also by keen politicians and by corporate bodies of 
different kinds, yet there is a feeling of anxiety about the 
looming aspect of the timber question and the ensuring of 
adequate supplies in the future. The note that is struck 
may well appeal to us too, for if we cannot, as a nation, 
see our way to provide funds for planting as large a_pro- 
portion of our waste lands as seems feasible with a fair 
prospect of profit, then our main chance of being able to 
provide for our wants in coming days is to have some strong 
preferential privilege as regards the Canadian timber, about 
which we must sooner or later enter into a costly economic 
warfare with our greatest competitors, the United States and 
Germany. 
