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discovered to be due to the excessive depth of leaves, and to no 

 other cause ? 



Secondly. He says : * This would easily be corrected by bolder 

 thinnings. Letting a little light in on the leaves would soon rot 

 them, and stimulate the stagnant growth of the Beeches." A forester 

 has got an immense quantity of JSeech leaves lying about his drives, 

 near to some dense Beech woods. He collects some for bedding for his 

 horses, which he takes to an open, airy, suany place, and dries them 

 much in the same way as a farmer would his hay. He then stores them 

 past in an open dry shed, into which sun and air have free access, but 

 no rain ; and what he does not need of tlie leaves found about his 

 drives he collects and puts under some trees out of sight, where the>' 

 have a deep shade over them. If those in the open dry shed will 

 last for years without undergoing any appreciable deca}', while those 

 in the damp shade are fast decaying, simply because the one is dry 

 und the other damp, would bolder thinning and the letting in ol 

 light not lead to drying up the leaves and preventing decay, rather 

 than accelerating it? 



1). ]M'(JORQrODALE. 



Dunrohiii, Golspie, N.B. 



FOREST ROADS. 



Sir, — The burning question among foresters is, Who is 'Loauleah"? 



For a number of years I have had some experience in planting : trees 

 planted among heather, as a rule, always succeeded ; those among grass 



(unless pared) always died, not so much from being choked as from 

 want of moisture ; but if planting on grass soil (without paring) is ^'•' 

 satisfactory mode of increasing demand on nurseries, the indiscriminate 

 cutting of grass among plants by parties interested only in the grass 

 will prove a most successful wholesale clearance for two, three, or 

 ten replantings. Your interesting correspondent is no less wonderful 

 in engineering. It is on poor ground where plants do not thrive that 

 roads are to be made ; then, as a matter of course, all gravelly 

 hillocks will be turned into roads, minus outlets, unless stinted 

 plants point the way. This beats General Wade, who, in order to 

 keep his roads straight, went right over hill and dale. It seems Mv. 

 Scott has been planning his roads when the ground was bare, in 

 order that he might better see the line for future locomotion It is 

 now to be hoped that he may profit l)y this new mode of timber 

 transit, which I suppose will be by balloon. 



