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earth attached to the roots, is the most successful method of removing 

 large trees. 



Concluding Remarks. 



It is truly lamentable to see how much time and money is expended in 

 planting trees, which for the want of information as to the lohat, how, 

 and when, have already perished, or are in a most unfavorable state of 

 decline, manifest by the sickly foilage, denuded trunks, or already dry 

 and withered stems. And how could it be otherwise, since the trees 

 have been kidnapped — forcibly taken from their damp and shady forest 

 homes — the roots sadly mutilated, and then their long and slender trunks 

 cut in two in the middle, and one end, (but little matter Avhich) rudely 

 thrust into a "post-hole" in the ground, and there subjected to the 

 scorching rays of a midsummer sun ; and then, as if to add insult to 

 injury, they are asked to live, grow, and reward the perpetrator of all 

 these outrages against vegetable life, by a luxuriant, healthy shade, and 

 lovely ornament ! It has been truly said, that "judicious planting, and 

 the skilful culture of plantations, combine national and private interest 

 in an eminent degree ; for, besides the real or intrinsic value of the tim- 

 ber or ostensible crop, with other produce of woods, available for the 

 arts and comforts of life, judicious forest-tree planting improves the gen- 

 eral climate of the neighborhood, the staple of the soil as regards the 

 gradual accumulation of vegetable matter ; affords shelter to live stock ; 

 promotes the growth of pasture and of corn crops ; beautifies the land- 

 scape, and thus greatly and permanently increases the value of the fee 

 simple of the estate and adjoining lands." There is no country to which 

 these remarks would apply with more truth than to this. How naked and 

 cheerless those dwellings situated on the broad prairies, without a single 

 tree to enliven the scene, and speak of shady comforts ; but we hope to 

 see a different picture when the farmers turn their attention more to the 

 comforts and luxuries of Home. Finally, we say, plant trees young and 

 old, and recollect, " What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." 



Yours very faithfully, 



P. R. HOY. 

 To Albert C. Inguam, Esq., 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



