340 FORESTRY IN OTHER BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 



The Bermuda Islands are well covered with wopdlands. The 

 dominant tree is the Bermuda Cedar {Juniperus bermudiana), 

 which yields a durable timber, easily worked, and used for house 

 and boat building, furniture and various other purposes. 



No forest laws are now in force, but owners of property do not 

 permit tenants to cut cedar without previous sanction. Measures 

 of re-afforestation are not considered necessary. The average 

 annual imports are given as 36,000 cubic feet of lumber valued 

 at £5,500, and other timber valued at £19,000, 



The Windward Islands, St. Lucia, have a fair amount of valuable 

 woods, containing Cedrela odorata, Ormosia dasycarpa, Hymencea 

 Courbaril, Calophyllum Calaba, Mimusops globosa, Chlorophora 

 tinetoria, Phoebe elongata, Vitex dinaricata, Balata and others. 

 The average annual exports during the last 5 years were valued 

 at £3,700, consisting of logwood, railway sleepers and other 

 kinds of timber. The forests are included in the Crown lands and 

 controlled by the Colonial Engineer, who employs a small native 

 staff. 



The Leeward Islands. — Only Dominica contains any forests, 

 the utiHzation of which would, in the opinion of the local authori- 

 ties, be hindered by the natural difficulties of the country. It 

 is considered that the denudation of the forests would react 

 prejudicially on the agricultural interests. 



The Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, have no forests, properly 

 speaking, in the Colony, beyond a few clumps of primary jungle 

 on inaccessible summits. Low secondary growth contains 

 Calophyllum inophyllum, Terminalia catappa, Abzelia biju^a, 

 Heritiera littoralis, &c. There is no forest service in the Colony. 



Hong Kong has a scanty supply of the native pine {Pinus 

 Massoniana), and a large quantity of China fir {Cunninghamia 

 sinensis) is brought into the Colony, of which no account is kept. 

 The following quantities of other timber were imported in 1919 : — 



Cubic feet. Value, £. 



Teak . . . 400,130 .. 109,485 



Other Hardwoods . 1,148,385 ,, 202,252 

 Pine, &c, . , . 746,996 , , 88,323 



Total Imports , 2,295,511 .. 400,060 

 A forest service is maintained in the Botanical and Forestry 



