e792. “on planting. 150 
‘heartily tired of hearing, that I could with, with you, 
*to see them done away, by a little industry of the 
kind you so much recommend, and which cannot fail 
to have a wofderful effect on the climate and pro- 
duce of Scotland ; whose sterility -and. chillnefs, if 
well founded, can only be owing to the uncontrouled 
influence of certain winds ; a real difhonour to the in- 
‘habitants, when it‘is considered how much their tem- 
perature must be modified, from whatever ‘quarter 
they blow, by pa‘sing.over a long tract of-sea; nay, 
-the very drefs of the country ascertains the fact. A 
great coat, at most, being all that is required in the 
most rigorous season ;. and some go withont one the 
whole year round ; whilst those who laugh ‘at them 
are covered with furrs,seyen months of the twelve. 
Imperial cadet og 
St. Peterfburg. _ ARCTICUS. _ 
REMARKS ON THE ABOVE BY ‘FHE EDITOR. 
In elucidation of the subject that-affords these 
sportive remarks to my ingenious correspondent, ‘I 
beg leave to inform him that he is much mistaken 
when he supposes that the people in Scotland, in ge- 
~ neral, are either ignorant of the manner of rearing 
trees, or backward in cultivating them. So far is 
this from being the case, ‘that’ lam firmly persuaded 
there is no part on the globe, of the same extent, where 
so many trees have been planted within the last half 
century, as-in Scotland; nor any other country where 
this branch of rural economy is so well understood. 
One gentleman afsured me, himself, that he alone had 
planted, during his own life time, upwards of forty 
