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THE JOURNAL 
OF THE 
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

Vol. VIl. No. 1. JUNE, 1900. 

NOLES ON SOME LOCAL CONDITIONS OF 
FORESTRY IN ENGLAND. 
The Board of Agriculture lately received through’ the 
Foreign Office an application from the International Union 
of Institutes of Experimental Forestry for information 
relating to the distribution and growth in England and 
Wales of certain specified trees. The Board accordingly 
instituted inquiries on the special points desired by the Inter- 
national Union, and at the same time took the opportunity of 
inviting the observations of the foresters and others who were 
good enough to assist them in this matter as to the con- 
ditions of supply and demand inthe timber trade and as to the 
prevalence of disease of trees, and of attacks by insects, 
mammals, and birds in English woedlands. Schedules 
dealing with the various matters of enquiry were prepared 
and submitted to selected observers in English and Welsh 
counties, with the result that more or less complete returns 
were obtained from nearly thirty reporters in as many distinct 
districts. 
Much of the data so collected is only of importance when 
viewed in its international aspect, and this will doubtless in 
due course be utilised and published by the Uiiion. Several 
matters upon which information was obtained may,however, be 
of interest to the owners of woodlands in this country ; and it is 
with these, more particularly, that the following notes are 
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