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To the woodland proprietor it may also prove more 

 suggestive than instructive. He will, at any rate, find its 

 few recommendations in accord with his own interests, and 

 that both Sport and Landscape Effect have been dealt with 

 sympathetically. That both these matters can be considered 

 in practical forestry without prejudicially affecting economic 

 sylviculture to some extent is scarcely to be expected ; but 

 with a little sacrifice on the side of each, and a fair amount 

 of common-sense practice, they can succeed side by side 

 without great difficulty. 



In conclusion, it may be pointed out that this book is 

 not, nor does it make a pretence of being, a text-book. The 

 intelligent reader, therefore, who discovers that it does not 

 contain a Planter's Guide, nor a reference to more than one 

 work on German Forestry, is requested not to despise it on 

 that account, nor to conclude prematurely that the Author 

 has written on a subject he knows nothing about. 



A. C. FOKBES. 



September 1904. 



