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trees should possess his book entitled " Practical 

 Forestry." If it could only be put into the hands 

 of law-makers, and they compelled to learn much 

 of its contents by heart, they would cease to be 

 more or less conscious traitors to their country in 

 allowing the destruction of forests. They might 

 avert the verdict of the future, and prevent poster- 

 ity from denouncing the irreparable wrong which 

 is now permitted with impunity. The Arnolds of 

 to-day are those who have the power to save the 

 trees, yet fail to do so. 



Japan appears to be doing as much to adorn 

 our lawns and gardens as our drawing-rooms ; and 

 from this and other foreign lands much that is 

 beautiful or curious is coming annually to our 

 shores. At the same time I was convinced of the 

 wisdom of Mr. Fuller's appreciation of our native 

 trees. In few instances should we have to go far 

 from home to find nearly all that we wanted in 

 beautiful variety, maples, dogwoods, scarlet and 

 chestnut oaks, the liquid-amber, the whitewood or 

 tulip tree, white birch, and hornbeam, or the hop- 

 tree ; not to speak of the evergreens and shrubs 

 indigenous to our forests. Perhaps it is not gener- 

 ally known that the persimmon, so well remem- 

 bered by old campaigners in Virginia, will grow 

 readily in this latitude. There are forests of this 

 tree around Paterson, N. J., and it has been 



