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ollice, and still more so into the hands of the Executive at Edinburgh, 

 from every part of the globe ; so that the display is certain to be an 

 extraordinary and a universal one. We therefore hope our northern 

 neighbours will endeavour to rise to the occasion, sink all their differ- 

 ences, and make the Exhibition what it should Ije — a credit to the 

 nation and to Edinburgh. 



One of the most violent storms which have ever visited the forests of 

 tliis country blew over a great portion of the United Kingdom on 

 the night of the lltli and the morning of the 12th December. The 

 loss of life on land and at sea around our shores has been 

 dreadful to contemplate, and the forester has to deplore the loss of 

 many a noble tree, and hundreds — thousands, probably — of acres of 

 tine, thriving plantations have been levelled to the ground. In recent 

 years foresters have had many severe losses from the same "cause ; 

 but, so far as we can learn, we fear that this is the most serious of the 

 Avhole, and that it will be many years before the traces of the wrecks 



of trees and of woods can be obliterated. 



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Few details of the losses caused by the storm have yet reached us, 

 but we shall be glad to get from our correspondents, and from others 

 interested in woods and trees, any particulars they can give respecting 

 the nature and extent of the loss, especially noticing anv remarkable 

 trees and valuable woods which may have been overthrown. 

 Information of this kind is always valuable and interesting, and 

 lliose who furnish it will be doing a public service, whilst themselves 



reaping the benefit of the experience of others. 



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If the losses in our woods have been great from the violence of the 

 storms, there has seldom been a winter more favourable to the opera- 

 tions of the tree-planter than the present. There have been but few 

 days since the winter began in which planting could not be carried on, 

 (3ven in the most exposed places ; and we trust that every planter in the 

 country has taken full advantage of the genial season and has got his 

 work in a forward state, so that the trees may have time to ' take 

 liold ' of the soil before the parching and swaying wdnds of March 

 are upon them. Such work performed during the mild weather ex- 

 l)erienced last month is certain to succeed ; and so long as the genial 

 weather continues every nerve should be strained to get planting 

 operations completed as far as possible. 



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We are pleased to note, from the report ofits recent annual meeting, 

 .that the English Arboricultural Society is making fair progress, and 

 we hope that its promoters wiU persevere with their good w^ork, for 



