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the bark is only 1*07 per cent. As regards the 

 commercial value of the wood, American opinion 

 is unfavourable to the red, and favourable to the 

 white oak, and we have only Macoun J to refer 

 to, who talks about using red-oak wood for 

 staves. The same reports come from Austria. 2 



25. Robinia pseudoacacia, L., Acacia, Locust, 

 False Acacia, Robinia. 



No broad-leaved tree coming from America 

 has been so widely distributed as the one known 

 as Robinia. The extent of all these Robinia 

 plantations is not known. Alsace 3 reports more 

 than 30 hectares of copse forest (Niederwald), 

 Hungary 4 70,000 hectares of high and copse 

 forest. 



We find everywhere that in warm climates the 

 wood matures with wonderful rapidity. If I lies 5 

 is to be believed, the quantity of 50 years' old 

 wood amounted, in Hungary, to 250 f.m. per 



1 "Forest Wealth of Canada," 1900, p. 27. 



2 "6s. F. u. Jz.," 1899, p. 291. Die Anbauwiirdigkeit der 

 Roteiche von Oberforster Spanily. 



3 Halbbauer, Edelkastanie und Akazie als Waldbaume im 

 Oberelsass, "A. F. u. J.," 1896, p. 249. 



* Lorey, "Die Waldungen Ungarns," "A. F. u. J.," 1889, 

 p. 104 und v. Alten, "Das Forstliche auf der Pariser Weltaus- 

 stellung," "Z. f. F. und Jw.," 1901, p. 68. 



5 Die Akazie in Ungarn, " 6st. Fz.," 1891, p. 321. 



