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the report, and it can be referred to the auditors by the meeting. It will only take a 

 moment. This report, I may say, is for the calendar year 1903. Our financial year 

 ends with the calendar year. 



(Mr. Campbell reads report.) 



Mr. CAMPBELL. I may say that the amount now standing at the credit of the 

 Association, after adding the grant of $200 from the Quebec Government, which was 

 handed me this morning, is $744.44. Will somebody move that the report be referred 

 to the auditors, and name the auditors ? 



Mr. GILLIES. I move that the report be referred to the auditors. 

 Mr. CAMPBELL. That would mean the same auditors as last year. 

 Mr. JOLY DE LOTBINIERE seconded. 



The CHAIRMAN. Well, I suppose that is all right. I have now to call upon Mr. 

 Ross to read Dr. Unwin's paper on Forest Reproduction in Germany. 



Mr. STEWART. I might say that Dr. Unwin is a graduate of the School of 

 Forestry of Tharandt, Germany, and came out and joined the Forestry department 

 of the Dominion about a year ago. He agreed to read this paper, but within the last 

 month he has received an appointment under the Imperial Government in Nigeria, 

 which was so tempting an offer that, though I was very anxious for him to remain 

 with us, I could not help advising him to accept the other position. Therefore his 

 paper will be read by the Assistant Superintendent of Forestry for the Dominion, 

 Mr. Ross. 



Mr. Ross. Dr. Unwin was several years in Germany, where he took up the study 

 of forestry, and he had special advantages for observing the methods of management 

 and reproduction in practice in that country. 



FOREST REPRODUCTION IN GERMANY. 



A. Harold Unwin, D. Oec. Publ. Munich, Dominion Forestry Branch. 



In being asked by the secretory to give an address on this subject at the meeting 

 of the Canadian Forestry Association, I have found some difficulty in condensing 

 the subject matter, which is necessarily very comprehensive. 



To begin with, the forests of Germany, which occupy 25 per cent of the total area 

 of land (Sweden has 48 per cent and Finland 62 per cent), are composed of trees 

 belonging to the same genera as our own, only represented, by different individual 

 species. The chief of these are spruce (Picea excelsa), the Scotch pine (Pinus syl- 

 vestris), the fir (Abies pectinata) like our balsam but growing much larger (up to 150 

 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter), the larch, or tamarack as it is t termed here. 

 Then of the wood-leaved trees, the beech (Fagus sylvatica), the oak (Quercus pedun- 

 culata and sessiliflora) , corresponding to white and burr oak here (Quercus alba and 

 macrocarpa), great maple and Norway maple (Acer pseudo-platanus and platanoides) 

 corresponding to the hard maple and soft maple here, ash (Fraxinus excelsior) like 

 white ash (Fraxinus americana), elm (Ulmus montana) like white elm (Ulmus 



