104 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
has been suggested above. The cost, which might still be very 
moderate, would be recouped many times over by the gain of 
practical knowledge to be applied in the management of estate 
woodlands; while the “ garden” could not fail to become a source 
of interest to the owner, as well as to the whole of his estate staff. 
Indeed, if costly mistakes are to be avoided and financial success 
to be secured, such investigations should precede all extensive 
operations, and should form an essential feature of the ordinary 
business on a timbered property. Every important industry is 
nowadays guided by analogous investigation; brewers and 
other manufacturers pay large sums for chemical analysis or 
other researches conducted in order to keep their knowledge 
up to date, and thus to secure a sound economic basis for their 
business. Expenditure thus incurred is looked upon as a part 
of the current outlay, and as essential to commercial success. 
Can those who are responsible for the management of British 
forests afford to neglect, or to unduly curtail, any reasonable 
means of deepening and widening the foundations on which 
their important industry rests ? FH; «Bs 
THE Rate OF GRowTH OF Pseudotsuga Douglasit IN THE 
Woops or Saxony.! (Communicated by John Booth.) 
It deserves to be more widely known in forestry circles that 
Prince Bismarck interested himself to a high degree in the 
introduction and cultivation of exotic species of trees, and 
that it is in part owing to his initiative that for some time the 
Prussian State Forestry Administration has carried out cultiva- 
tion experiments on a large scale. Influenced by the celebrated 
Mr John Booth, the Prince also had experimental plots 
established over a still larger area in the woods of Saxony, 
especially with the object of making experimental cultures of 
Pseudotsuga Douglasiz. 
The first yearling plants of this species were introduced in 
the year 1878 by Mr Booth into the woods of Saxony, and 
were placed in nurseries. In the year 1881 the then four- 
year-old trees were planted out in the first experimental plot. 
Translated from the Zestschrift fiir Forst- u. Jagdwesen, p. 8, 1906. 
