CONTENTS. 



The Society does not hold itself responsible for the statements 

 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



1. The Home Pitwood Supply. By J. H. Milne Home . i 



2. Wood Charcoal — Its Manufacture and Use. By W. D. 



Ashton Bost ....... 8 



3. Dupplin Castle Estates, Perthshire. By W. Dawson . 16 



4. The Planting- of the Sand Dunes at Culbin (with Plates). By 



P. Leslie, M.A., B.Sc, Marischal College, Aberdeen . 19 



5. Observations on the Annual Increment of Spruce, Scots Pine 



and Japanese Larch. By J. H. Milne Home . . 29 



6. On the Production of Potash Salts from Woodlands and 



Waste Lands (with Plate). By G. P. Gordon, B. Sc. 34 



7. The District Advisory Forest Officers of the Board of 



Agriculture ....'.. 40 



8. Continental Notes — France. By A. G. Hobart- Hampden . 45 



9. Proposed Scheme for the Afforestation of the Camps Catch- 



ment Area, Middle Ward, Lanarkshire. By G. P. 

 Gordon, B.Sc. ....... 55 



10. The Present ConditioH of Forestry in Italy. By Prof. 



Lodovico Piccioli, Forest Inspector at Catanzaro 

 (Calabria) ....... 62 



11. Extra-Tropical Forestry in Portugal. By D. E. Hutchins . 70 



12. Classification of Moorland at Fersit for Purposes of 



Planting (with Plate). By Donald Grant . . -73 



13. Japanese Larch. By Prof. A. Henry . . -77 



14. German Forest Notes. (Continued from Vol. xxvii. p. 222.) 



By B. Ribbentrop, CLE. ..... 79 



15. Supply of Home-grown Telegraph and Telephone Poles . 89 



16. Methods of Nursery Work (with Plate). By Alex. Murray, 



Murthly ........ 94 



17. Nursery and Plantation Competition . . . -97 



18. Forestry Exhibition at the Highland and Agricultural Society's 



Show at Hawick, 14th to 17th July 1914 . 104 



