No wonder that he already reco 

 316 THE COMPLETE F ^^"^-se ! What a satire is Hp K 



career! ' ^^ 



so long dried. To thicken a fore ~~ _____ 



ber of trees in a wood lot, it sh ^ Gtranbfather ALLO^ 

 cattle be permitted to be in it. ^ SOR-— The Vicar of W ^^^ ' 

 if needful, by layers and cuttings refused to allow a p-ranHf!!J^'^' 

 The practice of the populous for his infant „ ^J^^^^^^her to 



forests have been cut off cent ur has intimated tf' '^^ -^'"'^ 

 pelled to resort to measures of tl ^^ j^^^ ^ ^^' ^^ the laws o 



ply themselves with fuel, ought ^^j^, . ^^^^"^ ®"c^ a refusal, th 

 us. France, in an especial n \ Emitted as sponsor, of cc 



to for wise lessons on this suVj^^v". ^ "^ a communicant as 

 settled population, her numerous manufac 

 in mineral coal, the eminence which she has attamea in an 

 economical arts, entitle her to great respect. It is the prac- 

 tice of the French people not to cut off their woods oftener 

 than once in twenty or twenty-five years, and by law, when 

 they are cut over, the owner is obliged to cut the whole 

 srnooth, with the exception of a very few trees, which the 

 officers of the government had marked to be spared for 

 larger growth. Without giving any opinion as to the pro- 

 priety of the direct interference of the government on such a 

 topic, we should say that the example proves that in the 

 opinion of the French scientific and practical men, it is ex- 

 pedient when wood-lands are cut that they should be cut 

 smooth, in order that the new growth might start togethsr, 

 not overshaded by other trees of larger growth. We have 

 no favorable opinion of the utility of cutting down trees in a 

 scattered manner, as they appear to fail, and still less of 

 planting acorns in thinner spots of the forest. The growth 

 thus produced must remain forever feeble. — Loivell. 



A valuable paper by the Hon. John Welles, republished 

 in the New England Farmer, vol. i. page 329, from the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, recommends cutting 

 hard wood trees between forty and fifty years of age ; and 

 the writer states that ' though trees may shoot up in height 

 by standing longer, yet the period of the most rapid vegeta- 

 tion is mostly over, and by this means much of the under- 

 growth is necessarily destroyed.' Mr. Welles is of opinion 

 that in cutting over a wood lot to obtain fuel, it is best to 

 take the whole growth as you proceed. He observes that 

 * we have been condemned as evincing a want of taste in 

 cutting off our forests without leaving what it would take 

 half a century to produce, — a shade near where it is nroposed 

 to erect buildings. The fact is that trees of original growth 

 have their roots mostly in the upper stratum of earth, and 



