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people to want foresters, and the science of forestry. But they 

 will not plant for profit in the face of many a niortifjdng fact. 

 They will not produce what the public will not take at any price. 

 They plant only for sporting or ornamental purposes. These are 

 matters of real importance, for they are the reasons why many 

 reside in the country, in the midst of their own people. But the 

 requirements of beauty and of sport are apt to dictate narrow 

 hnes of choice, and they can hardly be what we have most in view. 

 Yet we feel very sure that a strictly economical, or commercial, 

 system of forestry would gain very little attention. The young 

 will certainly think most of what pleases the eye or promises 

 amusement. As to the elders — that is, planters past fifty — they 

 are seldom hkely to pursue a plan promising no results till they 

 are out of the way, or too old to enjoy even the work of their own 

 hands. True there are people who plant, as there are people who 

 build, on the verge of the gi-ave, but they are not many, and they 

 are exceptional. Whom may we hope to enhst in the pious work 

 of improving the England of the future, and doing good to a 

 generation more Ukely to detect our mistakes than to thank us for 

 our successes ? Sir John Lubbock pleads for the honour of his 

 country. It is disgraceful to have to send to France for foresters 

 to do the necessary work of planting in India. It certainly is ; and 

 though we suspect the pupils at Cirencester have enough to learn 

 without adding forest trees to their course of studies, still Her 

 Majesty's Woods and Forests ought to be found equal to the 

 emergency, and ought to be able to cultivate and diffuse the art 

 and science of forestry as well as employ it just for estates under 

 their own care.' — Times. 



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J HOPE you will allow me, as I have taken in your Journal 

 from its very first number, to point out to your readers what 

 perhaps is known to but few of them, and may be of use to 

 some of them, viz., the extraordinary adaptability for trans- 

 plantation of Pinus Austriaca. 



Some ten to twelve years ago I had occasion to enlarge my 

 park, taking into it some downs, situated about five hundred feet 

 above the level of the sea, and exposed to strong south-westerly 

 winds. Besides j)lanting in the usual way, I was desirous of 

 trying some trees for immediate effect. I had little or no expecta- 

 tion of succeeding with any of them, but I thought it worth 

 while trying the experiment in the interests of arboriculture. 



