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Willow (Salix alba, L.) known mostly in this country under the 

 name of French Willow. Large numbers of these trees have 

 been started from cuttings and have in a single year made a re- 

 markable growth, even from small cuttings put in with little 

 labour in a furrow made by a plough. Such plantations were 

 seen on the farms of Mr. John Doig and Mr. Walter Smith. On 

 the edge of one of Mr. Doig's plantations the sand had been 

 drifted away by the wind so as to expose the roots of one of his 

 trees. These, by actual measurement, extended for forty feet 

 from the central point, showing the great value of the willow as 

 a sand binder, both from its rapid growth and from its great root 

 production. 



An observation of much interest, as showing the power of 

 the Canada Balsam to resist destruction by sand, was that this 

 tree, when covered up to a certain extent with sand, threw out 

 large numbers of roots from the branches which were partially 

 submerged. Many samples of such branches were found upon 

 trees which had their roots and trunks covered up with from six 

 to ten feet of sand. 



Experiments with Beach Grass and the Sea Lyme Grass have 

 been very satisfactory, particularly where the former has been 

 planted on exposed banks. In low% undisturbed spots the Sea 

 Lyme Grass has succeeded rather better than the Beach Grass. 

 Tufts of both of these grasses were found in some places to have 

 extended four feet in each direction by the end of the second year, 

 and on Mr. Walter Smith's land one clump was found which 

 had a thick growth four feet across in the centre, with five 

 smaller shoots around it and eighteen shoots just showing 

 through the sand, which will produce tufts of leaves next spring 

 at a radius of twelve feet from the centre. 



The Canadian Forestry Association owes a great deal to 

 the active work done on its behalf by Mr. William Little, of 

 Westmount and a still further evidence of this is shown in the 

 fact that he has recently induced the Bank of Montreal to make 

 the managers of its oflfices, numbering some eighty-seven, 

 members of the Association. The thanks of the Association 

 are due to Mr. Little and also to the management of the bank 

 for their public-spirited action. 



