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profit and beauty; of game, and the injuries they commit; of fungi 

 and insects ; of accidents to, and diseases of trees, &c., &c. Here 

 would be a space for pointing out the means to be adopted foi- avoiding 

 the errors committed in wood-culture ; for advocating and describing 

 the planting of waste lands ; for showing the comparative results 

 obtained by planting, cropping, or grazing hill and moorland, and the 

 returns yielded by capital so invested; for the exposition of theories on 

 the distance and order at which trees should be planted; for explaining 

 the causes of faults in wood and of decay in timber of various 

 sorts ; for showing the kinds of ground best suited for nurseries ; 

 for setting forth the grievances, arising from whatever cause, of 

 foresters who have charge of policies and plantations, and for giving 

 instructions on the duties of foresters, and enforcing their claims for 

 considerate and wise treatment ; for making known the money yield 

 of timber as compared with the expense of its culture; and, in general, 

 for the statement and explanation of the whole circle of questions 

 which excite the interests of arboriculturists a s w'ood growers. 



Esthetic forestry. — Under which denomination we would range all 

 matters relative to landscape gardening and planning for effect, 

 ornamental plantations, public parks as places of recreation, the 

 laying-out of pleasure-grounds and what trees are most suitable 

 for them, the description of rare, beautiful, or extraordinary trees, 

 together with notices of the trees of the poets and the poetry 

 of trees. 



Such, then, are some of the headings or branches of subjects into 

 which the contents of the Journal of Forestry would, as it seems to 

 us, divide themselves. Of course we have only indicated the main 

 divisions, but tliere are many interesting matters which transcend 

 any attempt to bring them under such classification. Such are, among 

 others, biographical sketches of eminent arboriculturists ; reports of 

 meetings of societies interested in arboriculture ; papers on the 

 jpecuniary stake which proprietors have in trees ; the interest the 

 nation has in timber conservation; the advantage of establishing 

 National Schools of Forestry ; the valuation of plantations ; fossil 

 forests, their products and their lessons ; reviews and abstracts of 

 books on arboriculture ; essays on such topics as landscape beauty 

 and tree-growth, the habits and habitats of trees; notices of the in- 

 tioduction of new species or varieties, and descriptions of them ; the 

 preparation of wood-products for the market, the evils of denuda- 

 tion, &c., &c. 



Besides, too, there are the experiences of practical foresters 

 to be gathered up and disseminated. Few men engaged in 

 such pursuits are without their special opportunities for ex- 

 perimenting and of knowing — of seeing something others cannot see. 



