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THE CANADIAN H0KTICULTDRI8T. 



nut-bearing trees of his own growing. 

 And I would say to every one who reads 

 this report, make the attempt. It will 

 cost but little ; the pleasure of seeing 

 the straight row of thrifty young trees 

 the leiigth of your garden will pay you 

 well for all the trouble of growing 

 them ; and if you should have more 

 than you should need for your own use. 

 call your neighboiu' in as he goes b}-, 

 and make him a present of a dozen or 

 more to set upon his own place. It 

 will be a neighborly act that you will 

 never regret. 



Uo not say " it takes too long to get 

 the trees in bearing." I have young 

 trees growing that ai"e the grandchildren 

 of those that came from the nuts that 

 I planted only twenty years ago, 1 was 

 sixteen years old then, and am not a 

 very old man yet. I feel as keen enjoy- 

 ment i» raking over the golden hiaves, 

 and seai-ching for the rich brown nuts 

 as any of my younger friends, and I 

 hope to experience the same enjoyment, 

 and appreciate it too, for many years to 

 come. — Prof. Jas. Satteklee, in 

 Primer of Horticulture. 



FORESTRY. 



PROTECTION THAT IS NEEDED. 



While the cry of the people of (xreat 

 Britain and Ireland is constantly heard 

 against the preservation of so much of 

 the land at the cost of the wealthy in 

 the form of wilderness and even the 

 inci'ease of moor and forest lands, a 

 precisely opposite demand is arising on 

 this continent among people who sec 

 the remnants of the wilderness being 

 too rapidly broken up into small hohl- 

 ings. Strong efforts are now being 

 made to preserve to the people of the 

 State of New York some portion at 

 least of the Adirondack forests. This 

 natural wildeniess contains some six- 

 teen hundred thousand acres, which, 

 though almost valueless as agricultui-al 

 land, it. invaluable as a timber reserve 



and a pleasure resort as long as it re- 

 mains covered with forest ; which, judg- 

 ing from the manner in which the 

 work of spoliation has been carried on, 

 will not be very long. TIk^ system in 

 vogue among the lumljcrmen, whohaxr 

 taken in hand the duty of improving 

 this forest from the face of the earth, is 

 most thoiough. Every piece of wood 

 that is worth the cost of transportation 

 is first taken and the remainder is con- 

 verted into charcoal, leaving the land 

 completely stripped. Important as it 

 is to preserve the forests for their own 

 sake, in this case their im])ortant effects 

 upon the climate renders it an absolute 

 necessity. The Huflson and numl)er- 

 less other streams rise in the Adiron- 

 dacks, and if these hills be stripped of 

 their forests the water supply may pos- 

 sibly b(^ reduced, but the certain result 

 would be that periods of shallow water 

 woidd alternate with dangerous floods. 

 At a meeting of the ISTew York Chamber 

 of Commerce an expert declared that 

 while on the shores of Lake Champlain 

 the rainfall was but twenty -three inches, 

 twenty miles back in the forest-<:lad 

 mountains it was sixty inches, and this 

 was mainly due, in his opinion, to the 

 timl)er, although the height of the hills 

 shoidd also be taken into account. As 

 only five bundled and seventy-three 

 thousand acres of the wilderness belongs 

 to the State it is [)r-oposed that the 

 private interests in the remainder be at 

 once purchased by the State, in oi'der 

 to jirotect its most valuable asset, the 

 Erie Canal, which is <mdangered, and 

 the entire tract be reserved as a pid)lic 

 foresl. If this be done, as there is 

 strong hopes it will, the State of New 

 Yoi'k will l)e the first to establish in 

 America a public foresl, and every othei' 

 community in America should take 

 steps to follow so good an examj)l('. The 

 provinces of Canada being in a far 

 more favourable position than any of 

 these States should most certainly be 



