TlUB RECONSTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS. 



Itttifolia wiili its leuf cut in two, wliioh struck and developed buds ; tlic dotted 

 purt. sliciuii ill the upper half of the leaf, e, was removed, in order to put tlu; leaf 





into a little pot, but this did not prevent the success of the cutting;. The above 

 is abridged from Dr. Lindlcy's new edition of his "Theory of Horticulture." 

 a, indicates at what place we may cut the leaf without hurting the plant ; the leaf 

 being placed in the earth forms a callus at its base, b, whence the roots, and, 

 consequently, more shoots, spring up. 



THE RECONSTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS. 



My Dear Horticulturist : You were so kind as to embody in an article for 

 your November number, on the use of steam power iu the more common affairs 

 of life, some thoughts I communicated on the subject. 



The season for planting trees is now rapidly approaching, and some facts in 

 connection with pedestrian steam-engines, induces me to ask the favor of sub- 

 mitting a few thoughts on the duty of land owners to plant trees, and plant them 

 this spring. 



Though the Horticulturist has frequently urged and enjoined this duty in past 

 volumes, it doubtless has many readers in 1857 which it has never had in former 

 years, whose particular attention is desirable, and no old reader will fail to be 

 benefited by having this duty urged upon him again. 



The necessity for thus pressing on the notice of your readers the importance 

 of tree planting, w\as forcibly demonstrated Ijy witnessing the feats of one of these 

 pedestrian engines in cutting up the trunks of large trees into lumber for purposes 

 of utility and necessity. The pedestrian saw-mill is by far the most energetic 

 and terrible devastator of the forest known at present. They are taken to por- 

 tions of forest or timber which would never be touched if the logs had to be con- 

 veyed to watercourse or stationary steam saw-mills. 



I do not object to having trees cut down and sawed into lumber for purposes 

 tility in building and fencing. But how long will the existing forests in 



