242 TRANSACTIONS OF KOVAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



For the purposes of forestry records the main headings 

 would need considerable modification and more space would 

 be needed for the inclusion in the records of methods of 

 planting, age of seedlings or transplants, source of origin of 

 seed, the method and place of sowing and the subsequent 

 treatment of the seedlings, as well as particulars of the locality 

 in which they were planted. A column or columns for recording 

 the cost of the forestry operations either per acre or per 

 1000 trees, and for amount of fellings and other income, would 

 be useful, and if carefully posted at each stage of the 

 plantation's history would be invaluable from the economic 

 side of forestry. A useful index is incorporated in the book 

 and should certainly be retained. 



If the author can produce another note-book modified some- 

 what on these lines, I am sure its publication would be welcomed 

 by all active silviculturists. S. J. Gammell. 



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, 191 2. 



This reconnaissance, as the authors prefer to call it, was made 

 during the two summers of 1909 and 1910, with the object of 

 obtaining definite knowledge regarding the conditions of timber 

 supply in the province and of emphasising the need for more 

 conservative management. The total cost, which was paid by 

 the Provincial Government, did not exceed ;i^i2oo, and the 

 importance of the work accomplished for such a trifling sum 

 can be realised when it is mentioned that it was found that 

 fully two-thirds of the province consists of forest land yielding 

 meantime an annual revenue of about ^1,000,000, which is in 

 danger of exhaustion within the next two decades. The authors 

 made use of copies of the survey plans of the Government land 

 grants, to which they transferred by means of symbols the 

 information gathered in the course of their operations, and 

 they now claim that these sheets represent probably the most 

 detailed description of land conditions in existence for such a 

 large territory (21,000 square miles) on the American Continent. 

 The authors specially directed their attention to the following 

 points: — the composition or type of forest: the degree of culling: 



