— 43 — 



great reason that forestry was nearly connected with 

 national progress, and such instruction was divisible 

 as follows : — 



Method of preparing the land for forests, the art 

 of planting, the art of thinning and pruning, the 

 utilisation of limbs and branches, felling, barking, 

 leaving standards for reproduction (in which was 

 comprised the most important of all the operations,) 

 gathering pollards, sawing and manufacturing, and 

 rearing and propagating in nurseries. 



{The Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



ANNEXE B. 



(Voir Seauce du 28 Deoembre 188S, page 18.) 

 OYSTER CULTUEE 



The Report made to the Minister of Marine and 

 Colonies in France by Mr. Bouchou Brandely, relative 

 to the generation and artificial fecundation of oysters, 

 which has lately been issued as a Parliamentary paper, 

 is a very valuable addition to the literature which 

 deals with the culture of this famous mollusc. Of late 

 years, indeed, oysters have so steadily gained in public 

 favour as an article of food in spite of the almost pro- 

 hibitive prices asked for them, that the adaptation 

 of science to the development of this industry is a 

 question of some moment. Most of the Scoth, EngUsb 



