20 HAND-BOOK OF TREE-PLANTING. 



of our great country, we are all interested in the 

 maintenance of an ample supply of trees. We 

 are all interested in the preservation of them to 

 a proper extent where they now exist, and in es- 

 tablishing them in due measure, by planting, in 

 those parts of the country from which they have 

 been removed, or where hitherto their growth 

 has been prevented. 



