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for planting may be even better than on smooth and level ground. 

 Trees of valuable kinds can be grown anywhere in the state, and 

 if properly started, they will nesd no care but protection against 

 fire and cattle, and will, in a few years, yield a profit in wood, that 

 would be greater than is realized from their present use, aside from 

 the incidental benefits that their presence confers. 



It is, therefore, the part of wisdom to seek by every means 

 within our power to promote the increase of this element of our 

 wealth, as well as to economize the native supplies, remembering 

 that although our present resources may be sufficient to supply 

 our own personal wants, those who are to come after us will have 

 just occasion to accuse our memories of reckle3s improvidence, 

 if we leave them unprovided. 



FORESTS AND FORESTY IN WISCONSIN. 

 By Hon. John A.. Warder, North Bend, Ohio. 1 



To my Good Friends of Wisconsin : 



Though unable to respond personally to the call of your worthy 

 secretary, a willing answer is rendered by an ardent admirer of 

 your beautiful land, and of its noble sons, of so many among 

 whom it mav be said, " to know them is to love them." This re- 

 sponse is the more promptl}' rendered, because of the common 

 interest which brings us near to each other. Horticulture is the 

 bond ; yes ! and agriculture, too, for it is hard to draw a dividing 

 line between these interests; so that it is altogether right and 

 proper that you should hold joint meetings as you do, of both 

 classes of terra- culturists. This is the more praiseworthy when, 

 as now, it is proposed to include the consideration of the care, 

 planting and preservation of that noble class of vegetables, the 

 trees, which, over large tracts of our land, constituted the prime- 

 val crop of our country's soil, and which are still so valuable and 

 so necessary a crop for the use of the artisan and farmer, and 

 whose supply for the renewal of the forests is now so largely de- 

 pendent upon the efforts of those who are classed as horticultu- 

 ralists, the nurserymen. 



1 Read by the Secretary iu the absence of the Author. 



