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ing, in the remnants of the native growth still remaining, or in the plantations that may 

 have been formed for ornamental purposes or other use. 



Dr. Hough concluded his address by recommending experimental cultivations with 

 the view to ascertaining what varieties of forest trees are best adapted to different sec- 

 tions, especially in the prairie regions. 



Mr. D. W. Beadle, of St. Catharines, one of your delegation, was next called upon 

 to speak, but owing to the late hour, it being then after ten o'clock, contented himself 

 with moving the adjournment of the meeting, saying that he would improve some other 

 opportunity of addressing the citizens on the subject of Forestry. 



Tuesday, August 22nd. 



There was a large attendance at this, the second day's proceedings of the Forestry 

 Congress. Among the distinguished representatives of Forestry from theUnited States 

 were the Hon. George B. Loring, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, and 

 President of the Congress ; Dr. John, a Warder of North Bend, Ohio ; Dr. Chas. A. 

 Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama ; Prof. Franklin B. Hough, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry 

 in the Department of Agriculture, Washington ; B. E. Fernow, of Slatington, Pa.; J. W. 

 Manning, of Reading, Mass.; J. H. Hicks, of E-oslyn, N. Y.; Byron D. Halsted, of New 

 York City, and General Eaton, Commissioner of Education for the United States. 



The Hon. George B. Loring, President of the Congress, took the chair and addressed 

 the meeting as follows : 



He had come here with considerable difficulty, and in the midst of a great deal of 

 hard work of a certain kind, not because he was officially connected with the Congress, 

 but because of the high estimation in which he held the object for which they were met 

 together — the object of preserving, protecting and restoring the forests of this country 

 (by this country he meant Canada and the United States, and as far south of the States 

 as any ambitious gentleman was desirous of going), and of indicating to the world as far 

 as they could what was the value of the great forest growth of this Province. Another 

 reason for his coming here was that he was glad to know that there was one pursuit in 

 which Canada and the United States had a common interest, and on which they can in 

 no way be divided. It was a good thing to join all our nationalities in one common 

 interest, at any rate. For a long time the question of Forestry had been so to speak 

 aesthetic, but it had been followed up so persistently that trees had reached the position 

 which they had a right to claim. Every man knew how to adorn his farm ; in fact our 

 ancestors, 200 years ago, built up what might almost be termed forests round their farms, 

 which were standing to-day as an example of American industry, American taste and 

 American determination to make the American home what it should be for the intelli- 

 crent man, woman or child. What he meant by America was not only the United States, 

 but the whole North American Continent, with a total disregard for political differences, 

 and a total disregard for social, civil and religious differences. He had begun on his own 

 farm 25 years ago and planted evergreens and other trees, adorning a bleak hill, in order 

 that he might have a nice home, and he grew just as familiar with the peculiarties of 

 these trees as he was with his Ayrshires, his Black Hawks or his Merino sheep. He had 

 been particularly unfortunate with his Black Hawks, not one out of 500 was a trotter, 

 and he could not keep sheep in a State where boys would shoot everything else except 

 another boy, and that accidentally. After an absence from that farm for three years, he 

 still remembered the evergreens, the spruce, the hemlock and the white pine — the noblest 

 tree grown on this great North American Continent— and other trees that were upon it. 

 The student of Forestry is really a botanist, because he feels the same interest in a tree 

 that a botanist feels in a rare plant. We have been shown, not only the habits of trees, 

 but their origin and their peculiarities, and also the climate and soil to which each is 

 adapted. We owe our knowledge in this direction to such scientific investigators as 

 Michaud, George B. Emerson, and others. The scientific part of this matter had been 

 thoroughly discussed, and there was not a man in the room interested in Forestry who 

 did not know where to go to get the peculiarities of any tree which he desires to cultivate. 



