FORESTRY IN S 



In 1862 was published a work entitled Calendario del 

 Agricultor and Ganadc.ro Para, 1862, &c. Almanack of 

 Agriculture and Pastoral Husbandry by D. Domiuga de 

 la Vega y Ortis, illustrated by 17 engravings, and a 

 beautiful agricultural map of Spain and Portugal. It 

 contains, amongst other things, an article entitled Arboles 

 de Ribera Trees of the Coast divided into three parts, 

 which treat of the importance and usefulness of these ; of 

 the storing of the water, and the amelioration of the 

 climate ; and of the utilisation and equalisation throughout 

 the year of the flow of rivers and running streams. And in 

 all, much is said of -the utility of extending the woodlands a-s 

 a means of increasing the salubrity of the country, or 

 diminishing the duration, frequency, and intensity of 

 droughts: of ensuring the perennial flow of rivers by 

 increasing lignous 'productions, and by other appliances of 

 importance; and -information is elsewhere supplied in 

 regard to the proper treatment of timber. The article of 

 which mention has been made was re-produced in the 

 Gaceta de Madrid of the 29th October, of the year of its 

 publication, 1862. i 



In 1863 was published a volume entitled Manual de 

 Selvicultura Practicapr a Manual for the forester,thegardener 

 the proprietor, and the forest warder, by D. Jose Garcia 

 Sanz. It treats of sowing, planting, pruning, and all that 

 concerns the cultivation of various kinds of forest trees ; the 

 collecting of their seeds, the diseases from which they 

 suffer, &c. And iii the following year another, entitled 

 Manual del Agricultor Asturiano, by D. Luis Guez, of the 

 Faculty of Science, Professor of Natural History, and 

 member of the Patriotic Economical Society of Oviedo. It 

 treats of the cultivation of the beech, the oak, the chesnut, 

 the walnut, the pine, the ash tree, and others. 



In the same year, 1864, was published Arboricultvra o sta 

 Cultivo de Arboles y Arby^tos a large work, in two volumes 

 8vo, with numerous plates. They were lectures delivered 

 at the Scientific and Literary Athenaeum of Madrid, by D. 

 Antonio Blanco Fernandez, Professor in the Institution, 



