PRESS AND OTHER NOTICES 



OF THE FIRST EDITION. 



" The Scotsman," February 2$rd, 1900. 



" An exposition of the Continental system of growing 

 trees, according to which they are encouraged to grow into long 

 straight poles, instead of being spoilt, as they often are in this 

 country, by premature thinning. The chief merit of the book is 

 that the author shows a practical knowledge of forestry, and has 

 made a serious endeavour to propitiate game preservers, whose 

 anxiety to have a thick undergrowth is one of the chief impedi- 

 ments to scientific forestry in this country." 



" The Field," February 24^, 1900. 



" The author of ' The New Forestry ' describes his book 

 as an ' attempt to combine in a handy form all that is best in 

 British Forestry of the past with what is now acknowledged to be 

 the superior methods of continental forestry, and to adapt the 

 latter to the conditions existing in this country, where the forests 



are owned by private individuals, instead of by the State.' 



' The New Forestry ' is a good and useful book, and suggestive of 

 much that is to be done in woodland planting if it is ever to be of 

 any value either to the nation or to planters " 



" The following has been received from E. Floyer, Esq. 



" The Rayah Plantations, Manachi, Egypt, 



6th March. 1900. 



" Sir, I do not know who sent me your book, ' The New 

 Forestry, 1 but I am very glad to get it. I agree with nearly every- 

 thing you bring forward. I plant between 5,000 and 6,000 (fir poles) 

 to the acre. I trim all side branches when young, and leave only 

 a crown for shade. Until the crowns join I cover the ground with 

 arachis, which is useful in several ways. I think also that a chief 

 function of~a root is to fix the tree in its place. 

 " Yours faithfully, 



" ERNEST A. FLOYER." 

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