BRITISH FOREST TREES 



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percentages of cultivated soil to the total area of the country 

 may be of more than passing interest : 



Percentage of Total Area of Country, under 



In no country is arboriculture better understood or 

 practised than in Britain, but in sylviculture, and indeed as 

 regards forestry altogether, we have much to learn from Con 

 tinental countries, from Germany in particular. In no other 

 country than Britain is there such apathy shown by Govern- 

 ment with respect to the provision from national funds of 

 technical education concerning forestry, and as regards 

 timber production and utilisation in general. 



Of late years there has, however, been a decided con- 

 sensus of opinion that the destruction of woodlands 



Revenues of the Crown submitted to House of Commons on 26 July, 

 1889, the total forest area appears to be 109,139 acres, of which only 

 57,304 acres are actually under timber crops (vide Minutes of Evidence, 

 pp. 4, 5, and 42). 



1 Vide Board of Agriculture's Statistical Returns for 1891 and 1892. 

 The actual figures therein given for the United Kingdom according to 

 the latest data are : 



