IRISH GARDENING. 



liahility of lack of cniployniont. Surely 

 Jni't'stry uii.i;lit pruvidt' oiir iiu'ans of ri'ahsorh- 

 itig- tiiousands of men into cixilian pursuits, 

 and it only requires the scheme to lie ready — 

 and tin- trees. Of tlie latter tliere should be 

 no fear. Our advertisement ])ages will show- 

 that month after month Ii'ish firms advertise 

 forest trees, and tlieie is little doubt that they 



event of overseas supplies being eut off, and) 

 who liave submitted scheme after scheme for 

 (lovernment approval, but the result has been 

 invariably the same — the 'treasury would not 

 pi'ovide the money 



Since then the position has become mure 

 acute. Thousands of trees have left Ireland 

 or have, in any ease, been cut down; but, on 



f.YCilNiS VlSCAKIA i'LUiai ALliO I'LKNO. 



At the Ijusli, Antrim (see ]). 7). 



could sup[)ly millions, and would soon ha\e 

 millions more if they saw any signs of forestry 

 coming into its own. In our July number of 

 last year, in commenting on an address given 

 by Mr. A. C. Forbes, Chief Inspector of 

 Forestry in Ireland, at the general meeting of 

 the Irisli Forestry' Society, we wrote: — "It is 

 absolutely imperative that the shortage in our 

 forest areas should be made good at the earliest 

 possible moment. . . . There is no lack of 

 competent foresters, who have in tlie jiast 

 pointed out what would surely hap[)en in the 



tlu' oth 'r hand, thousands of jjounds nnist 

 have gone into the pockets of those who had 

 timber to sell, and it would not be unreason- 

 able were the Government to require at least 

 a proportion of that money to be expended on 

 replanting the denuded areas. 



We trust the Irish Forestry Society will take 

 u]) the matter vigorously; and we appeal to o\n' 

 readers to become members, and help to create 

 an industry that will be of incalculable advan- 

 tage to Ireland and future generations of 

 Irishmen and women. 



