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time limit is set, as has been done in some recent sales, after 

 which there can be no renewal of the annual license. Under 

 these circumstances the lumbennan as a business man has no 

 choice except to cut clean whatever has a value above the stump- 

 age dues preparatory to the abandoning of the ruined land. 

 The payment of a portion of the price of the logs in the form of 

 an annual "ground rent" tax is equally mischievous in tendency, 

 and may even in Quebec and Ontario where it is quite low 

 prove a very great bar to the reforesting of waste lands by private 

 enterprise. 



There is no form of sale so conducive to conservative lum- 

 bering of forest properties with a view to their development 

 as producers of logs in perpetuity as the placing of the whole 

 payment of the lumberman's price for the logs as stumpage dues 

 of so much per M to be paid when the logs are cut. This is not 

 only theoretically indisputable, but has in practical lumbering 

 operations on both public and private lands been abundantly 

 proven to be satisfactory to buyer and seller, and of the utmost 

 advantage to the forest. 



Mr. R. S. Cook, of Prince Albert, has on his grounds at that 

 place a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) from Manitoba, which 

 is now about sixteen feet in height and in perfect health. Mr. 

 Cook expresses the opinion that this is the most northern oak 

 on the continent. 



We publish two photographs illustrating the hardiness of 

 Norway Pine, which have been received through the kindness of 

 Mr. A. Knechtel, Forester to the New York Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission, and which were accompanied by the follow- 

 ing note: — 



Close to the road leading from Paul Smith's to McCoIloms' 

 in the Adirondacks, stands a Norway Pine tree which shows a 

 remarkable hardiness. Nine years ago a strip of bark was re- 

 moved from this tree leaving the trunk entirely bare all around 

 the tree for a length of one foot. The tree is still alive and has 

 during the nine years made a diameter growth of two inches. 

 Its increase has, however, been only above the girdled part. 

 The dimensions are as follows: height of the tree, 30 feet; diame- 

 ter of the girdled part, 5.23 inches; diameter just above the 

 girdle, 8.3 inches; just below the girdle, 6.4 inches. 



The handicap in the struggle for existence is now, however, 

 beginning to be apparent in the growth, as some of the branches 

 have scanty foliage. 



