CHAPTER III 



TREE-PLANTING BY THE STATE 



ON no less than seven occasions during recent 

 years has the question of Afforestation and a 

 School of Forestry been brought before the 

 House of Commons. There have been private 

 sittings, Select Committee, Departmental 

 Committee, a Committee to consider the 

 Desirability of Tree-planting in Ireland, Royal 

 Commission on Coast Erosion, and the Forestry 

 Subcommittee of Reconstruction, at all of 

 which much valuable information was given, 

 not only as to the pressing need of afforesta- 

 tion, but financial results that have been ob- 

 tained in various parts of the Kingdom from 

 properly managed plantations. 



Two of the original pioneers of afforestation 

 in this country were the late Sir John Lubbock 

 and Dr. Lyons. I can well remember on a 

 Sunday afternoon in his beautiful woods at 



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