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different; virtue, like all plants of price, needs cultivation; forests 

 need the eye, the mind and the heart of man. Instead of being 

 full of the most beautiful and useful trees the wild forest offers a 

 prodigiously small quantity of good trees ; many have outlived their 

 period of use and they prevent the growth of others ; many have 

 grown crooked; wicked ones have injured the righteous/' — M. 

 Jusserand, at the American Forest Congress. 



.\t a meeting of the Western Horticultural Society, held at 

 Winnipeg, on the 24th January last, the follov^'ing resolution was 

 passed : — 



Resolved that this Societ}' desires to express to the Honour- 

 able the Minister of the Interior its approbation of his work as 

 shown in the creation of a Forestry Branch in connection with his 

 Department. 



Also desires to express its conviction that the educational 

 work carried on in the encouraging of tree planting has been of 

 great value in helping the settlers to build for themselves com- 

 fortable homes. 



And further, that the demonstrations made by his officers of 

 the possibilities of tree culture on the great plains of Western 

 Canada will render even more inviting to the prospective settler 

 the fertility of the soil and also convince him of the healthful- 

 ness of the climate. 



The Canada Lumberman has reached its tv.-enty-fif th anniversary- 

 and celebrated the event by the issue of a special number, giving 

 a history of the development of The Lumberman and the lumber 

 industry since it began its career. In its initial number in 1880 

 it stated its objects, in addition to the furnishing of trade infor- 

 mation, to be as set out in the following quotation : — 



" Canada is indeed a wooden country, but its woods are fast 

 disappearing, and one of the prime elements of its early growth 

 is being ruthlessly destroyed by the old style of management on 

 the part of the Government and the reckless indifference of the 

 people. It will be the duty of The Lumberman to point out the 



