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Only in the manner suggested by our Ontario confrere, can it 

 now help us ; and so far as we are concerned, we shall urge upon 

 them and the public generally, the good sense and patriotism of 

 such a move. 



BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 



must find some means, even outside the regular way, of stimulat- 

 ing a return to proper methods here. The proportion of forest 

 and field is impaired seriously, but under educative and paternal 

 influtnces, can be practically restored in a short term of years. 

 A land of rich and varied forest when the white man's foot first 

 touched the soil of Isle St. John, there is a natural tendency co 

 recover its place to an extent equal to all hygeinic, agronomic and 

 economic needs quickly ; and areas protected from the pasturing 

 cattle, seeded from neighboring bearers, grow up thick with a 

 mixed stand of beautiful trees. Let Ottawa only quietly in- 

 sinuate its influence for good in this matter then, if the door is 

 not open to authoritative action, and much good ^vill be the re- 

 sult. This province could not resist a desire so beneficent : and 

 the good once done, the asset is surely a national one. 



SIR WILERID, FORESTER. 



We were delighted, in a conversation with the head of the 

 Canadian Government the other da\', to discover that Sir Wil- 

 frid Laurier is a warm friend of systematic forestry and an en- 

 thusiastic lover of trees. In all his varied accomplishments, and ad- 

 mittedly he has many, there is none that does him more honor, 

 nothing more becoming, nothing which bespeaks the wann heart 

 and those gentle feelings which imperceptibly bind men together. 

 He well remembers the calmer and more peaceful days of early 

 manhood, when, in the quiet village which claimed his Quebec 

 home, he planted, tended, and thoroughly enjoyed not only the 

 fructifers of the orchard ; but, also, the^ stately shade trees from 

 the adjacent hillside. Everything grew he touched, and thus, 

 his early enthusiasm absorbed by greater things for the moment, 

 has never diminished in the slightest degree. In him the friends 

 of forestry, and they are Canada's best friends, will ever find a 

 sincere and generous patron. There is great need of a broad and 



