of a more rapid growth than our species, has been found to 

 grow most readily on the rocky grounds near Salem and Lynn, 

 under the planting of E.. S. Fay, Esq., and oaks from acorns 

 plucked from seedlings of a third generation, may be seen on 

 the farm of the late E. Hersy Derby, growing in various soils. 

 The increasing taste for summer residences on the very marge 

 of the ocean, seizes upon any tree form which will grow on the 

 marine soils : and Emerson in his Report on the Trees and 

 woody plants of Massachusetts, recommends the use of the 

 pinaster of Europe or cluster pine, which has been successfully 

 employed in France, to cover and turn to advantage the barren 

 sands of the coast. 



The artificial production of forests addresses the pocket of 

 the farmer, whose family, if not himself, may be benefited 

 thereby. Fuel and timber are among the prime articles on any 

 farm ; each coming from growths which need scarcely more 

 than a let-alone policy when once fairly on the start, and pay- 

 ing all they promise on demand from the axe. 



I do not expect to see such enterprises, so long as land is so 

 cheap and our woods so vigorous ; and still more so, when 

 every farmer born on the spot he cultivates, inherits his wood- 

 lot ; and he who does not, can readily purchase : nor do I ex- 

 pect much until Agriculture rises in the estimation of the pub- 

 lic ; until patriotism enters into its calculations, giving to its 

 future a little present foresight, and by a seasonable prevention 

 avoiding a great coming evil. Should our Agricultural Schools 

 and Colleges prove a success, and the great subject of the cul- 

 tivation of the earth be studied, and in all its bearings consid- 

 ered, with its relations to a country's prosperity and very ex- 

 istence, the time may come when the barren and waste places 

 shall be thus planted by the same hands and with the same 

 pride and skill, that now lay out the wide fields of grain, re- 

 deemed from sterility or seized upon in their virgin freshness, 

 and that garner a sure harvest, which science as well as indus- 

 trious and honorable toil shall insure from season to season and 

 from year to year, 



