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different methods of exploitation followed in our country. Drawn from 
the best sources, 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 France. 
Price 7s. 
In this are detailed the appearances presented by the 
Landes of the Gironde before and after culture, and the 
Landes of La Solugne; 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. 
- Extracts From Prerace.—‘ The preparation of this volume for the 
press was undertaken in consequence of a statementin the Standard and 
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 being 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 he 
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 gand-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- 
structive consequences of torrents. Price 12s. 
In this are given a résume 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- 
