TREE-PLANTING BY THE STATE 



better when a Committee was appointed to 

 consider the possibilities of tree-planting in 

 Ireland. Nine years ago hopes of afforesta- 

 tion were high, when the Eoyal Commission on 

 Coast Erosion issued their Report, but again 

 nothing was done. 



Further than the planting of some ground at 

 Knockmullen, in Ireland which, by the way, 

 was a complete failure and the purchase of 

 a comparatively small area of land in Scotland 

 for experimental purposes, little has been 

 done by the State towards meeting our wants 

 in the matter of an extensive and well-thought- 

 out scheme of tree-planting. 



It was announced last November that the 

 Government had appointed an interim autho- 

 rity to make preliminary arrangements for 

 developing afforestation in the United King- 

 dom. The chairman is Mr. F. D. Acland, 

 M.P., and there are representatives of England, 

 Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The repre- 

 sentative of Scotland is Brigadier-General Lord 

 Lovat, who acted as Director of Forestry in 

 France for the British Army, and superin- 



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