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FORESTRY IN FRANCE. 



You may find very, complete information, and in abridged form, in a notice which was 

 published by Major Bailey, who was last year at the forest school at Nancy, reprinted from 

 transactions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, vol. xi, part ii, 1886. 



You, may procure the volume containing this work at Edinburgh from the society. 

 Mr. Bailey was instructed by his government to procure this information on tlie forestry 

 question in France. I have prepared this notice with him, which was published in 1886. 

 This work being written in English it may be readily consulted by your Government. 

 I would be at your disposal, if necessary, to prepare a work on the ten questions asked, but 

 it would take some time, which at present is not at my disposal. 

 Please receive the expression of my, &c. 



(Signed) A. PUTON, 



Inspector- General of Forests ; 

 Director of the National Forest School at A^ancy. 



REPORT OF CONSUL SHACKELFORD. 



The importation of lumber for building purposes is mainly from Norway, 

 Sweden, Russia and Finland. A few cargoes of spruce from New Brunswick 

 and Nova Scotia, and of pitch pine (yellow) from the United States. 



It is imported in beams, joists, planks and boards, principally of the 

 following dimensions in English measure, feet and inches, but cut in lengths 

 in metric feet — 4x9 inches, 3x9, 3x8, 1^x8, 1x8, 1)^x5, 1^x4}^, 1x5, 

 and I X 4^ . 



Formerly white pine from Quebec was used for decks of vessels, but 

 since naval construction is at a stand-still no more is imported. 



A few oak logs and railway ties are annually brought from Germany. 

 The duty on all lumber, is one franc per 100 kilograms when imported direct 

 from the country whpre it is grown. 



Imports of lumber for the years 1876 to 1885, inclusive — 



Kilograms. 



1S76 53,143.572 



1S77 52,222,236 



1878 ■• 45,572,086 



1879 •• ■• 47.100.326 



1880 61,874,888 



Kilograms. 



1881 55.615.949 



1882 62,691,842 



1883 71.823,448 



1884 60,073,175 



1885 58,891,614 



PLANTS AND SEEDS. 



The principal shippers of plants from the extensive nurseries of this city 

 are Les enfants de Andr6 Leroy, Louis Leroy, Detriche fr^res, Par6 Delavigne. 



The first two named alone ship to the United States. The amount of 

 exports for 1885 was ^13,976, and in 1886 ^13,427. 



The plants are generally seedlings of one year's growth — pear seedlings, 

 Anger quince, mahaleb cherry, common cherry, myrobolan, evergreens, 

 standard roses, &c. 



