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PREFACE 



THE pressing need of afforestation and the 

 lifelong interest that I have taken in the 

 subject have caused me to record my ex- 

 perience and observations. The Scottish 

 laird's advice to his son, " Be aye stikin' in 

 a tree, Jock; it'll be growin' when ye're 

 sleeping" was never more appropriate than 

 at the present time, when the axe of the 

 woodman should give place to the spade of 

 the planter. The cultivation of timber where 

 formerly heath and gorse abounded is equally 

 laudable with the making of two blades of 

 grass grow where only one grew before. 



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