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duced largely in Massachusetts, the Larch and Scotch Pine, besides Oaks, 
Ashes, Maples, Norway Spruce and Austrian and Corsican Pines. He 
recommends a protecting belt of trees to be planted on the northern side 
of every farm. The proper proportion of forest for Massachusetts he con- 
siders to be 25 per cent. Besides the woodlands in the State, there are 
nearly two millions of acres of unimproved lands, 1,200,000 acres of which 
is admirably suited for forest growth, the value of the timber on which, in 
fifty years, could only be reckoned by hundreds of millions. True, this 
would devote half the State to Sylviculture ; yet, he thinks it would be its 
most profitable use, and be a benefit to that and other States. 
Professor Sargent expresses his concern at the rapid destruction of 
timber in the United States, as sure to enhance its price, and produce many 
agricultural evils. He says, ‘‘ Every year the destruction of the American 
forests threaten us with new dangers. Every year renders it more impera- 
tive to provide some measures to check the evils which our predecessors in 
their ignorance have left us as a legacy, with which to begin the second 
century of our Republie.”’ 
The Professor calculates so largea timber profit to his State, besides other 
advantages as to make it a moral duty, and patriotic achievement, to engage 
in tree planting, and insists that railroad corporations must plant in their 
own interest. 
If farmers would generally plant one side the highways, and a row or 
belt of sheltering trees on the north side of their farms, and they and the 
Governments should see that all untillable grounds should be kept in the 
growth of timber as far as practicable, exempt from plunder and fires, we 
should attain that proportion of trees over the whole country which is re- 
quired by the best interests of agriculture and the general good of the 
people. This should be the aim of all. 
In Pennsylvania we have begun no considerable tree planting, except it 
be that in Fairmount Park. There, besides previous plantings, the Com- 
missioners have planted within eighteen months, 12,082 trees, of the value 
of $14,490 ; and have yet in the Nursery 33,304 trees. 
From the reserved moiety of the Michaux income, the American Philo- 
sophical Society has established in the Park the course of Lectures de- 
livered by Dr. Rothrock on Arboriculture and Botany, who dwells em- 
phatically upon the importance of woods for the preservation of water and 
soil and in protection of agriculture. 
Citizens of Pennsylvania have, however, commenced an important Syl- 
viculture in Eastern Virginia. Landreth & Co., of Philadelphia, have for 
six years and a half been planting 300 acres of black walnuts, and in a few 
years will complete some thousand acres in hard wood nut bearing trees. 
Mr. Burnet Landreth, a member of the firm, without fear of inciting ri- 
valry, and without any apprehension that the growing market for timber 
can be overstocked, has published their doings in the Journal of Forestry, 
published in London. He seems actuated by the spirit of patriotism more 
than the love of profit. He laments that the White Pines of our State have 
