(Courtesy American Lumberman.) 

 Cut of Yellow Pine 100 Years Old, with 'Standards' Left. 



Notes on Some Bavarian Forests* 



By Major Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere. 



A brief account of a short visit 

 paid to three Bavarian forests, 

 near Munich, may be of interest to 

 those who may contemplate a visit 

 to Germany, where they will see for 

 themselves the result of more than 

 a century's systematic and scientific 

 management of forest lands. 



I desire, at the outset, to make it 

 clear that German forestry is not 

 identical with forestry as it exists 

 to-day in Canada, although it is re- 

 nuirkable how similar the forest 

 trees and climatic conditions are in 

 these two countries. 



The main difference lies in the fact 

 that in Canada primeval forests 

 abound, whereas in Germany nature 

 is assisted in the work of regenera- 

 tion both by planting and by select- 

 ing the trees to be removed, as well 

 as those to be left as seed-bearers 

 and shelter for future crops. 



On my arrival at Munich, in the 

 middle of August, I presented a let- 

 ter of introduction to the British 

 Legation. (I had previously ascer- 

 tained that Profes.sor Ileinrich Mayr, 

 who is a well known authority on 

 forestry, would be the best author- 

 it v to consult). The Legation plac- 

 ed me immediately in communication 

 with him and I lost no time in call- 

 ing at his house in the experimental 

 garden, at Grafrath. The Professor 

 received me with the greatest kind- 

 ness and courtesy, and undertook to 

 arrange a programme which would 

 fill up the whole of the time at my 

 disposal. T cannot say too much of 

 the interest shown me by Professor 

 Mayr, who is the principal authority 

 in the School of Forestry at ^^unich, 

 as well as the head of the large Ex- 

 perimental Garden at Grafrath. 



[Prof. Afayr has died since ^[ajor 

 Jolv de Lotbiniere 's visit to Munich. 



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