180 TIMBERS AM) THEIR USES 



yield is comparatively small. The principal trees 

 are several species of Oak, including tlie Ilex, 

 which yields excellent tanning bark. Maritime 

 and Aleppo Pines, Elm, Ash, Poplar, Wild Olive 

 and Thuya, a fine conifer greatly prized 'for 

 cabinet work. 



The most important return from the State 

 reserves is from the extensive belts of Cork 

 Oak. In 1898, 5,270 tons of cork were obtained 

 from these lands. 



Germany. More than a quarter of the total 

 area of Germany is forest land or a total of 

 35,000,000 acres. In the mountainous regions 

 of Central Germany the proportion of wooded 

 area is 31 per cent, on the northern plain 24 

 per cent, and on the coast only 15 per cent. In 

 Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria, and some of the 

 smaller states, about half the forest land belongs 

 to private owners ; in fact one-half of the forest 

 land in the whole of the empire is privately 

 owned ; one-third belongs to the State, and one- 

 sixth is the property of towns and other municipal 

 bodies. 



The State reserves in Eastern Prussia cover 

 approximately 60 per cent ; in the western and 

 southern parts of the kingdom private and com- 

 munal ownership obtains. Many of these com- 

 munal forests are of considerable extent and 



