FOh'h'STS AXn FORESTJn' OF CEHMANY 593 



What is Called the ' Thousand-year Oak," left as a memorial or curiosity, Spes- 

 sarto Mts., Bavaria, Germany. 



Bavarian foresters in this line of work. Hundreds of acres were thickly 

 planted with white oak acorns, and more hundreds of extra employees 

 were kept busy for six weeks to take full advantage of an infrequent 

 but blessed mast year. 



Probably no state has developed a more intensive forestry system, 

 or has done more to place forestry on a sound financial basis than 

 Saxony. This has been due to several causes. Among these may be 

 mentioned, first, the individual work of Heinrich Von Cotta; who is 

 Justly regarded as the greatest forester that the world has seen. Second, 

 the forest school at Tharandt, which was founded by Yon Cotta in 1811, 



