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of management. Finally, I have supported the recommendation 
of the Select Committee, and shown how a well-constituted 
Board of Forestry, if active and enthusiastic, may encourage 
and stimulate private efforts to improve existing areas and to 
promote an extension of planting ; how it may, by granting 
diplomas, encourage a really sound system of education, and 
attract young men of the right stamp to enter upon the course 
of study laid down ; how, too, by publishing a text-book of 
forestry, the knowledge may be spread among the masses in an 
incipient manner. The work must be gradual, and no violent 
effort is needed. There must be a sufficient amount of en- 
thusiasm in the Board to make itself felt among the landowning 
class ; for, as I have already stated, if this is not done no study 
in the world will prevail against the inertia which has been 
prevalent during the last half-century. What is required is to 
bring about another sylvan period, like that already referred to 
as prevailing between the years 1750 and 1815, during whic? 
time the forest area largely increased. 
Let me, in conclusion, recommend the owners of woodlands 
and the owners of land lying waste or unproductive, to turn 
their attention to the science of sylviculture. Let them obtain 
the advice of experts and organise a system which will result 
in improving the existing timber, in securing them a regular 
revenue, and in the judicious planting of new areas. Let them 
no longer be satisfied with the old rut, but leave it for a more 
enlightened way, and endeavour to act upon the cream or the 
evidence taken before the Select Committee, which must in 
future form the foundation of British forestry. 
If I were asked to recommend a work on forestry I should 
unhesitatingly point to the three reports of 1885, 1886, and 
1887, which contain the pent-up experience of half a century. 
I cannot do better than conclude by quoting lines attributed 
to Sir Walter Scott :— 
" Be aye sticking in a tree, 'twill be 
Growin' whilst ye are sleepin'." 
XX. — Glimpses of Farming in the Channel Islands. By WiLLiAM 
E. Bear, Riggindale Road, Streatham, Surrey. 
Visits to the Channel Islands during the seed-time and harvest 
of the most important crops ; a careful inspection of some of the 
best farms, fruit grounds, herds, and dairies ; interviews with 
pome of the highest resident authorities upon the several branches 
