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"Woodland Ash. By Sir Hugh R. Beevor (Quart. Jour, of Forestry, vol. x. 
pp. 249-253 ; October 1916). — The following prices a foot cube refer to regular 
sales from one thousand acres of woodland within a few miles of High Wycombe : 
1815 
1850-63 
1876-88 
1891 . 
1 909-1 91 3 . 
Even before the war ash timber was above the price of a century, ago, and it 
has shown a steady rise in value during the past fifty years. 
The great war is making an extraordinary inroad upon stocks ; and this 
will greatly diminish supply. 
In the varied dry and moist soil on the estate in question two features in the 
yield of ash call for attention — the quantity in relation to quality of soil, and the 
quantity in relation to pure or mixed crop an acre. 
The yield on agricultural quality soil does not seem high — 2,400 feet cube an 
acre, 1,380 of ash timber (twenty-seven trees), the rest oak with a few sycamore 
(thirty trees) was taken from a wood ninety years old. The ash were all sound, 
though not likely to continue so. However, the price standing of ash, 35. 3^. a 
foot, made this wood a new record in manv returns. — A. D. W. 
Woolly-aphis-proof Apples. By E. E. Pescott (Jour. Agr. Vict. Oct. 1916, 
p. 621). — The following apples are included in a list of apples immune to woolly 
aphis in Australia : ' Emperor Alexander,' ' Annie Elizabeth,' ' Gravenstein,' 
' Irish Peach,' 1 London Pippin,' ' Northern Spy,' ' Reinette du Canada,' ' Winter 
Majetin,' and ' Winter Strawberry,' together with thirty-four Australian 
varieties. — C, H. H. 
