II. 



WHERE TO PLANT. 



IF the condition of things is as we have set 

 it forth, the answer to this question is readily 

 suggested. 



The urgency of the case on the exposed 

 plains beyond the Mississippi, and in the arid dis- 

 tricts between that river and the Coast-Ranges 

 of the Pacific, will draw our attention to those 

 parts of the country first and lead us to say at 

 once, plant there if possible. How far it is pos- 

 sible to make tree-planting successful in those 

 regions is a matter of dispute. Into the grounds 

 of that dispute we do not propose here to enter. 

 In a simple, practical manual, such as this is de- 

 signed to be, it is not called for. But the urgen- 

 cies of the case are such that no reasonable ef- 

 fort should be spared in the endeavor to supply 

 those naked regions with an adequate amount of 



