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and have de-take^ to take up vines, for it will come under 

 the same rule. 



The new words thallon^ athallage^ and athallizing^ coined 

 by Dr. Grant, will scarcely meet with any more favor 

 among j^ractical men or scholars than deplowing. 



Lateral is a term the meaning of which is fully and 

 generally understood when applied to the vine, and it will 

 probably be a long time before thallon will drive this 

 older and better word out of use. 



The learned Doctor's method of deriving the words 

 athallage and athalllzlng from a Greek root will be very 

 likely to amuse our great philologists ; and among practi- 

 cal men it will be placed alongside of the wonderful Greek 

 graft — described by Pliny in his seventeenth book, where- 

 by all manner of fruits were made to grow upon one root 

 or stock. But in these later days that kind of graft is 

 called by another name. 



Report on the Disastrous Effects of the Destruction of Forest 

 Trees in the State of Wisconsin. By I. A. Lapham, J. G. 

 Knapp, and Hans Crocker. Madison, Wisconsin. 12mo ; 104 

 pp. Pamphlet. 



It is seldom that we receive a pamphlet containing 

 60 much valuable information as this one, and we 

 regret that it was only published for distribution in a 

 single State, inasmuch as the subject treated of is one that 

 should receive the attention of every citizen of the United 

 States. 



The Legislature of "Wisconsin, by special act passed 

 March 2-3, 1867, appointed a commission, consisting of the 

 three gentlemen named above, to ascertain what effect the 



