214 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
for the training of young people for private forest service, since 
there are otherwise no such institutions in Germany. The 
establishment of the school was made possible by the help 
of the town of Templin (Province Brandenburg, situated go 
kilometres north of Berlin), which possessed 3000 hectares of 
forest, and sold 1°5 hectares for the building and a large forest 
garden at the very low price of 100 marks, and guaranteed a loan 
of 80,000 marks at 1°8 per cent. interest, which loan is to be 
paid up at the rate of 1°5 per cent.; and, lastly, it placed the forest 
at the disposal of the Society for teaching purposes. Several 
other towns have taken an interest in the school and made 
similar endeavours. The school can accommodate forty pupils, 
and contains a dwelling for the director, an assistant and a 
caretaker. The cost of the building itself was 92,000 marks, and 
that of the necessary adjuncts (furnishings and fittings) 12,000 
marks. With this sum it was possible to introduce all modern 
requirements, such as water-supply, electric light, and good 
teaching material. The total amount necessary, namely, 104,000 
marks, was raised from the following sources:—To the 80,000 
marks lent by the town were added 10,000 marks, the previously 
collected capital of the Society, and 14,000 marks were given by 
the forest proprietors and other members of the Society. The 
course lasts one year (1st July to 15th June). The pupils pay 
424 marks, for which they receive board, lodging and instruction. 
The actual cost is naturally much higher, and runs to 700 marks 
per head. ‘The deficit is made up out of the Society’s means, 
the support of two Boards of Agriculture, and the current sub- 
scriptions of forest proprietors. The object of the instruction is 
purely practical, and value is attached to the fact that the pupils 
learn to do all kinds of forest work. The school was opened on 
the 1st October 1906, and has developed splendidly. According 
to my mind, it should be quite possible to establish a similar 
institution in Scotland. 
The second important object of the Society at the present 
time is, as already stated, the establishment of pensions. The 
salary of an under forester is usually not very great, but he may 
be able to make ends meet as long as he is able to work. His 
case is, however, very different and unsatisfactory when, through 
age or illness, he becomes unfit for work. The proprietors of 
small and medium-sized forests cannot, and will not, guarantee a 
legal claim to a pension such as that guaranteed by the State 
