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with the following local allowances: Principal, Rs. 200 per 
mensem ; other Imperial Officers, Rs. 150 per mensem; Assistant 
Instructors, Rs. 75 per mensem.” 
[The above Resolution will be hailed with satisfaction, as 
providing the means of placing Indian Forest Management on a 
sound and rational footing, based on local investigation. We 
trust that before long the Home Government will confer a 
similar benefit on our own Forest Industry.— How. Ep. ] 
LarcH DIsEAsE ON Pinus Laricio AND Pinus sylvestris. 
In 1883 I planted up an opening 400 or 500 yards long 
and about 20 yards wide through a wood about fifty years 
old. The glade had been left for landscape effect; but, as it 
gave upon the open sea, the gales of 1881-82 had wrought great 
mischief upon the garden at the north end of it, so I determined 
to plant it up. The soil, I believe, had never been cultivated, 
at all events not during the previous eighty years. The trees 
planted were larch, Scots and Corsican pines, and beech, with a 
few Pinus insignis and Cupressus macrocarpa next the garden end. 
All grew rapidly, but the larch became so badly affected with 
Perisporidium that they were all cut out in rg00. During the 
present season I detected the larch disease on two of the 
Corsican pines (one of these trees was in a suppressed condition). 
I sent a section of the stem to Kew, where the fungus was 
verified. JI may mention, in passing, that the Pinus znsignis has 
far outstripped all the other trees in this plot, one of them 
having attained the height of 62 feet in twenty-two years. 
In another plantation of twenty years’ growth, where some oj 
the larch have been affected, I have found a Scots pine bearing 
the disease. This is the first instance recorded, so far as I know, 
of the growth of that fungus upon this species of pine.! 
Thuja gigantea.— Anybody who has visited Mr Younger’s fine 
woodland at Benmore, in Argyleshire, will be inclined to ratify the 
forecast made to me more than thirty years ago by Mr Peter 
Lawson, taat Thuja gigantea (Lobbit, as it was then called) was 
to be the tree of the future in British woodlands. At Benmore 
may be seen about 2000 acres, planted from twenty-eight to 
1 The disease has been previously observed on Scots pine. 
