Illustrated Canadian Forestry Magazine, December, ip20 



609 



Scottish Peer Loses by Fire. 



Lord ( ilentanar, of Glen Tanar, Aber- 

 deenshire, Scotland, was recently in Can- 

 ada. He owns a large forest proptiTy 

 and has the misfortune to have had the 

 only disastrous forest fire in Scotland for 

 nearly one hundred years. Twelve bun- 



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dred acres of forest were burnt. The fire 

 was probably caused by carelessness and 

 burnt for a long time, owing to the char- 

 acter of the soil. Before returning to 

 Scotland. Lord Glentanar purchased a 

 gasoline forest fire pump and hose for 

 use in case of emergencies. 



Planting in Scotland. 



Professor Leslie, of Aberdeen Uni- 

 versity. Scotland, has been studying 

 forestrv conditions i n Canada, and gives 

 the following account of the planting 

 activities of "the British Forestry Com- 

 mission along nursery fines in that sec- 

 tion. In the Craibstone. about five miles 

 from Aberdeen, in 1918, cSOO.OOO seedings 

 were grown and planted out in areas ac- 

 quired bv the Commission. In 1919, 2,- 

 000,000 seedlings were fifted and trans- 

 planted. Last spring, 2,000,000 seedlings 

 were transplanted. These were mostly 

 Scots Pine, larch and Sitka spruce. In 

 tbe spring of 1919, extensive sowings 

 were made in the Improvement Park and 

 iu tbe Wocnllands Fields nurseries. 

 Woodlands iMeld now has 1,300,000 

 spruce and 1.000,000 larch two year seed- 

 lings and the Improvement Park 5,000.- 

 000 larch, 4,800,000 Scots pine, 1,000,000 

 [apanese larch, 1,500.000 Sitka spruce. 

 100,000 American white spruce. 1.500,- 

 000 Douglas fir and 10,000 Austrian pine. 

 r)()ul)lo the above quantities were sowed 

 ibis si)rini>-. 



'i"bo Laurcmide Company. Ltd.. is cut- 

 ting one tbousand cords of bardwood to 

 ln' iiscil in tlic mamifacturc of ground 

 \\( 1(1(1 inilp. Tbe species being cut arc 

 pdpl.ir. wbitt.' bircb. yellow bircb and 

 maple. riie two lirst will be floated and 

 \\\c two latter will be transported u> 

 b; I rues. 



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Timber Estimates 



JAMES W. SEWALL 



Old Town, Maine. 



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