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and transporting timber, etc., for sale : and any intention of 

 opening out new roads. 



13. The local wood-consuming industries, and the possibility 

 of introducing new wood-consuming industries that might utilise 

 locally-grown timber, etc. 



14. Results of any experiments made with such trees as 

 Japanese larch, Douglas fir, common and Menzies spruce, 

 Thuja plica fa, silver fir, cypresses, etc. 



The above is the information which will be asked for before 

 a District Advisory Officer can begin the outdoor work necessary 

 for drawing up any good, simple working-plan. 



8. Continental Notes — France. 



By A. G. Hobart-Hami'den. 



French forestry magazines have this year broken oft" with the 

 advent of the war, and there has, therefore, been less material 

 to consider than usual. 



I. In my last year's notes I quoted Huftel as saying that, while 

 the characteristics of the different f-aces of the Scots pine are 

 always transmitted wherever the seed is sown, these differences 

 gradually disappear till the foreigner has grown in all respects 

 like the indigenous tree. This has, however, now been denied by 

 Hickel, a French forester, known best, perhaps, on the botanical 

 side of forestry. He says that Dr A. Henry and Mr Forbes 

 (Mr A. C. Forbes no doubt) agreed with him as to the difference 

 between a crop grown from Riga seed and one grown from 

 Haguenau seed which he showed them in France. The context 

 appears to show that he is speaking of old woods, otherwise it 

 would be no confutation of Huffel's statement. 



M. Hickel says that, in his opinion, there are practically only 

 two races of Scots pine, the one growing in high latitudes or 

 altitudes, and the other in low latitudes and altitudes. The 

 former is tall, straight, with relatively thin branches, short and 

 dark-coloured needles, and a conical habit ; the other has thicker 

 branches, longer and lighter -coloured needles, and a more 

 extended crown. The conical habit of the former tree — with 

 flexible branches and short needles — has no doubt arisen 

 through Selection, as best suited to throw oft" snow. 



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