CONTENTS. V 



PAGE 



20. Some Lessons from the Recent Gales. By Sir Hugh Shaw 



Stewart, Bart. . .172 



21. The State Forests of Saxony. (With Illustrations.) By 



A. D. Hopkinson . . . . . i74 



22. Report on Speeches made at a meeting between Delegates 



representing the interests of Forestry in Scotland and the 

 Scottish Railway Companies to discuss the Question of the 

 Price of Sleepers manufactured from Home-Grown Timber 

 as compared with that of those manufactured from Foreign 

 Timber ........ 188 



23. A New Disease on the Larch in Scotland (with Plate). 



By A. W. Borthwick. D.Sc, Lecturer on Forest Botany, 

 University of Edinburgh, and Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc, 

 F.L.S., Lecturer on Mycology. University of Edinburgh . 198 



24. Recent Publications on Swiss Forests. By W. S. Smith, 



Ph.D. . . . . . . . .202 



25. Notes of Silvicultural Interest (with Plate). By A. Murray . 206 



26. The Use of Explosives in Forestry. By Dr Alexander 



Lauder ........ 210 



27. Continental Notes (Germany). By Bert. Ribbentrop, CLE. 212 



28. The Prices of Home Timber ..... 222 



Notes and Queries : — The Rliping Process of Creosoting 

 Timber — Afforestation at Vyrnwy — Deer Forests and 

 Sporting Lands in Scotland— Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh: Proposed Guild— Testing of Forest Seeds — 

 Appointments ....... 235 



Reviews and Notices of Books:— Illustrations of Conifers. 

 Vol. III. By H. Clinton-Baker. Printed privately at 

 Hertford, 1913 ...... 240 



Planter's Note Book. By J. Woodward, Junr. Gardener's 



Chronicle, London, 1913. Price, is. . . . 241 



Forest Conditions of Nova Scotia. By B. E. Fernow, LL. D., 

 Dean of Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 

 assisted by C. D. Howe, Ph.D. and J. H. White. 

 Commission of Conservation, Ottawa. 1912 . . 242 



Obituary :— Lieut. -Col. F. Bailey, R.E., LL.D. (with Portrait) 



— The Late Mr John Grant Thomson— Mr John Methven 245 



Proceedings of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 1913, 

 vvith Appendices. 



List of Members as at 21st June 1913. 



