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different methods of exploitation followed in our country. Drawn from 

 the best sourcea, and commented on with talent, these documents form 

 an elegant volume, which the author has made the more complete by 

 binding with it a summary of the treatise he has published on the 

 Forests of England.' 



VII. -Pine Plantations ou Sand Wastes in Prance. 

 Price 7s. 



In this are detailed the appearances presented by the 

 Landes of the Gironde before and after culture, and the 

 Landes of La Sologne ; the legislation and literature of 

 France in regard to the planting of the Landes with trees ; 

 the characteristics of the sand wastes ; the natural his- 

 tory, culture, and exploitation of the maritime pine, and 

 of the Scots fir; and the diseases and injurious influences 

 to which the maritime pine is subject. 



ExTEAOTS FROM Pbepace. — ' The preparation of this volume for the 

 press was undertaken in consequence of a statement in the Standard arid 

 Mail, a Capetown paper, of the 22d July 1876, to the effect that in the 

 estimates submitted to Parliament £1000 had been put down for the 

 Cape Flats, it was supposed with a view to its beiog employed in car- 

 rying out planting operations as a means of reclaiming the sandy tracts 

 beyond Salt River. 



' This volume was originally compiled in view of what seemed to be 

 required at the Cape of Good Hope, It has been revised and printed 

 now, as a contribution towards a renewed enterprise to arrest and 

 utilise sand-wastes which stretch from Table Mountain to the Hottentot 

 Holland Mountains ; and additional information is forthcoming if it 

 should be desired.' 



VIII.— Reboisement in France ; or, Records of the Re- 

 planting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the 

 Pyrenees, with Trees, Herbage, and Bush, 

 with a view to arresting and preventing the de- 

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In this are given a rSsume of Surell's study of Alpine 

 torrents, of the literature of France relative to Alpine tor- 

 rents, and of remedial measures which have been proposed 

 for adoption to prevent the disastrous consequences fol- 



