Missouri Botanical Garden 
George Engelmann Papers 
KHOO 
1880 .] Forest Work for the Month . 121 
bark being ricked in fine condition. As far as yet ascertained the 
price of oak bark will range rather low this season. In plantations 
where peeling has been carried on, collect all the spray into heaps or 
have it removed altogether, so as to clear the ground for the young 
growth to come up. 
Towards the end of the^month" look over your plantations and see 
that ferns, &c., do not interfere with the growth of the small trees. 
This is an important item for the forester to guard against. 
Besides the usual routine of repairing roads and fences, this is a good 
time to begin operations for protecting river-sides. Such work should 
always be done as early in the season as possible, so that embank¬ 
ments, bulwarks or such like undertakings may be consolidated before 
the customary floods usual in autumn. Everything in the way of 
water-work ought to be done during the summer months. 
Ballinacourte. D* Sym: Scott. 
Currant Bushes on Railway Banks.— In the last number of the Flore de 
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