CONTENTS 



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An Industrial Opportunity. By John Sutherland, C.B.E. 

 F.S.I 



Tree-Roots : Their Action and Development (with Plates) 

 By Ernest V. Laing, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 



Preliminary Experiments on the Germination of Conifer Seeds 

 By Helen I. A. Gray, M.A., B.Sc. . 



Notes on the Forests of Auvergne. By R. Maclagan Gorrie 

 B.Sc, I.F.S 



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5. A Comparison of the Rates of Growth of Scots Pine {Pinus 



syluestris) and Corsican Pine {Pinus Laricio) (with Plates). 



By R. Shaw ....... 35 



6. The Empire Forestry Journal ..... 40 



Notes and Queries : — Pinus ponderosa — Rosellinia on 

 Spruce Seedlings — Green Spruce Aphis — Regeneration 

 of Cupressus Laujsoniana — The Ring Wood Plantation, 

 Murthly Estate— Unemployment Forestry Grants ; Income 

 Tax — A Pole Railway for the Removal of Timber from 

 Steep and Difficult Hillsides — Tree Repairing — British 

 Timber Exhibition, 1924 ..... 42 



Reviews and Notices of Books : — Schlich's Manual of 

 Forestry : Volume I., " Forest Policy in the British Empire." 

 Fourth Edition revised and enlarged, pp. xl + 342. London : 

 Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd. . -5° 



Lumber : Its Manufacture and Distribution. By Ralph 

 Clement Bryant, F.E., M.A. Published by Chapman and 

 Hall, Ltd., London, 1922, Price, 23s. net . .51 



Handbook of Field and Office Problems in Forest Mensura- 

 tion. By Hugo Winkenwerder and Elias T. Clark. 

 Second Edition. PubUshed by Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 

 London, 1922. Price, los. ..... 52 



