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realised the need for highly trained research officers, and their 

 training receives special attention. Professor Hosmer's article 

 should be read and pondered over by all interested in forestry 

 education. 



Other articles in the present issue of the Jour?ial deal with 

 such varied subjects as re-afforestation in Kenya Colony, the 

 wood-pulp industry, propaganda and forestry, creosoting by the 

 incising process, and Douglas fir as a mining timber. 



J. W. M. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



PiNUS PONDEROSA. 



My interest in Pinus po?iderosa originated in three specimen 

 trees, planted on this estate by my grandfather. They first 

 attracted my notice by their exceeding hideousness. After a 

 long struggle my father was persuaded to cut one conspicuous 

 specimen down. Many of the great are not admired until after 

 death, and this was a case in point. The men felling the tree 

 complained that they had never had such a sticky subject for 

 the cross-cut saw, but when I came to see the log on the saw 

 bench I was struck by the straightness of grain, freedom from 

 knots and apparent strength of the timber. This was three years 

 ago, and last week 1 asked our carpenter what use had been 

 made of this timber, and what he thought of it. " Used for 

 doors and window-sills," was his reply, " and next to foreign 

 pitch pine for quality." I cannot give the dimensions of this 

 log, but a contemporary in the pinetum was planted 23rd 

 September 1859; in 1911 this was measured as 70 ft. high, in 

 1917 as 76 ft., in 192 1 as 79 ft. The circumference of the bole 

 at 5 ft. is 6 ft. 9 ins. 



The taper on the whole tree is considerable, but not excessive. 

 This tree is growing in clay soil near a pond. The side 

 branches have remained very insignificant, although the tree is 

 planted as a specimen with a wide space round it. 



In the winter of 1919-20 I thought I would try how this tree 

 grew in plantations, and planted one hundred 3-year olds, about 



