322 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



scheme of agriculture. Scotland, even in the 

 face of the tragic revelation of the Census 

 and the enormous tracts of country which 

 lend themselves to reafforestation (estimated 

 at 6,000,000 acres), is only to be provided with 

 a central demonstration area with a forestry 

 school attached, and with small forest gardens 

 for the local use of the agricultural colleges I 

 Ireland comes off little better. The Com- 

 missioners have agreed to advance £30,000 

 for the purchase of land, and to further 

 advances as soon as formal and definite 

 applications are made under the Act 

 for the maintainance and management of 

 small woodlands in the hands of the county 

 councils. 



In Ireland, where land can be bought very 

 cheaply in congested areas, a sum of money 

 to be spent in planting belts of woodland to 

 protect the newly-settled migrants in exposed 

 parts of the country should be very useful. 

 Here alone in the three kingdoms is there 

 a Department of Agriculture prepared to 

 furnish advice to workers on all matters re- 

 lating to forestry, including the selection of 

 sites for plantations, suitability of soils, choice 

 of trees, treatment and valuation of existing 



