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the adjoining owners were to be executed by the Minister of 

 PubUc Works, who was authorized in case of failure of the oc- 

 cupant to properly comply with the requirements of the law, 

 to make such arrangements as will complete the work, charging 

 the expense on the adjoining premises. The occupant was 

 required to break the ground the first year, cultivate to crop 

 during the second year, and plant in trees, seeds or cuttings dur- 

 ing the third year. The trees were to be planted in straight 

 lines and not more than twenty feet apart. The following kinds 

 of trees, as being best adapted to the climate might be planted, 

 namely: oak, ash, elm, ash-leaved maple, poplar, balm of gilead, 

 spruce, tamarac, balsam, pine, wild cherry and hawthorn. 



Probably the most important result of the Congress was 

 its deliverance on forest fires, as it undoubtedly gave the im- 

 pulse and suggested the line of action which has been so bene- 

 ficially adopted throughout Canada in the fire ranging system. 



The reports received at the Forestry Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior of the results of the tree planting, which 

 has been done in the West, make a most favorable showing. 

 The number of trees set out under the direction of the Forestry 

 Branch which are now alive and vigorous, will average ninety 

 per cent., while trees in some of the groves planted out in 1902, 

 are now by actual measurement from thirteen to fourteen feet 

 in heisfht. 



The Woods and Forests Department is just now^ engaged 

 upon the considerable task of providing for the reafforestation 

 of Windsor Great Park. His Majesty's first interest in sylvi- 

 culture was aroused when, as a young boy, he assisted his father, 

 the late Prince Consort, to plant out the clumps of elms and oaks 

 at Windsor and Osborne, which have since developed into 

 sturdy plantations. The King has noted with interest the pro- 

 gress made by these early experim.ents of his, and has accord- 

 ingly desired to associate his regime with a scientific plan for 

 perpetuating the forest scenery of the Royal precincts. Thus 

 the gaps left in the various avenues of the Great Park by the 

 frosts and winds of recent years are being systematically filled 

 up, a new^ avenue is created as an approach from the park to 

 Frogmore, and clumps of young forest trees are being planted 

 out upon bare spaces here and there, the intention being in some 

 instances to preserve the symmetr}^ of the plantings first made 

 bv the King's illustrious and far-seeing father. — Timber Trades 

 Journal. 



