HUNGARIAN FORESTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 16, 14 October 1908, Page 39

HUNGARIAN FORESTS.

From a beautifully illustrated handbook, which is freely distributed in the Agricultural Section of the 'Hungarian Exhibition at Earl’s Court, it is interesting to learn that, notwithstanding the enormous area of forests in Hungary (more than 35,000 square miles), the Government is extending and renewing them on a large scale. In the State forestnurseries, a stock of two hundred million young trees is maintained, from which over forty million are transferred to the State forests annually, besides ten to twelve million sold at a low rate to private persons. In addition, the Hungarian State possesses many fruit nursery farms, from which about four million young trees are yearly distributed to parish communities and others. There is much in the book refererd to which will interest others than agriculturalists, and from it many useful lessons may be learned.