yo PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



much rural distress would have been avoided had 

 arboriculture received fair consideration, and planting 

 been steadily carried out. From the want of know- 

 ledge, from the failures brought about by wilful 

 ignorance and neglect of common natural laws, capital 

 invested in planting has been wasted, and the work 

 thereby been suspended. It is only by spreading the 

 knowledge of forestry that this desirable end can be 

 achieved, and when this is secured we believe land- 

 owners will willingly make use of the knowledge so 

 acquired. 



