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So well convinced is he of this fact (appealing to what has already been 

 done as proof), that he sees in it not only a sufficient field for the employ- 

 ment of our redundant population, but immense advantages which would 

 accrue to the landholder, and ultimately to the state. 



He last year addressed a letter to Mr. Peel on the subject, and therein 

 states that one hundred acres, enclosed and planted as he would direct, at 

 the expense of 4,200/. during twenty years, will, at the end of that term, 

 yield a clear profit of 6,300/. That one acre of well planted and protected 

 woodland will, after the first ten years, pay an annual rent of from 6/. to 

 10/.; and, if home-grown bark could be supplied instead of that which is 

 imported, would save to the nation 400,000/. per annum. 



His ideas on the propriety and practicability of covering the extensive 

 wastes of Scotland and Ireland with wood are rational, and, in the present 

 state of the country, highly interesting. He adduces certain parts of the 

 woodlands of Earl Roden, in Ireland, which have not been planted more than 

 sixty years, as at this moment being worth, if felled, 5,000/. per annum ! and 

 gives some equally encouraging instances of what has been done in Scotland. 

 Of his plan, as a rational object, it has been said, that " it is not because it 

 would set a-working thousands or tens of thousands of our idle population, 

 that we would have our waste lands planted, but simply because the real 

 value of the work would more than pay the cost of it, and would thus 

 enable us to give our labourers bread for their mouths, as well as occupation 

 for their hands." 



Mr. Menteath appears to be a man of considerable originality and vigour 

 of mind in his department, and quite aufait at the practical part of forest 

 management. — J. M. Chelsea. 



Withers, William, Junior, Esq., of Holt, Norfolk, Author of " A Memoif 

 on planting and rearing Forest Trees " {Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 75.) : A 

 Profit and Loss View of planting One Acre of Land, on the System re- 

 commended by Mr. Withers, and on that generally adopted by Scotch 

 Planters. London. One page, in the tabular form, 1 ft. 2 in. by 1 ft. 6 in. 

 Is. 



The original expenditure, on Mr. Withers's system, is 28/. 15s., and the 

 clear profit, at the end of sixty-four years, 1,305/. 9s. 8d.; on the Scotch 

 system, 17/. 10s., and the loss, at the end of sixty-four years, after deducting 

 the value of the trees, 272/. 10s. 5d. We entirely agree in the conclusion 

 of Mr. Withers, " that, though a difference of opinion may exist as to the 

 profit to be actually realised, enough is shown to prove that a liberal 

 expenditure in planting and subsequent management, with compound in- 

 terest thereon, will be amply repaid by the increased growth of the trees 

 thereby occasioned." 



France. 



Annales de la Society d? Horticulture de Paris, et Journal Special de I'Etat el 



des Progres du Jardinage. torn. i. Ire livraison, pour Septembre, 1826. 



Paris. 8vo, pp. 80. Price, in Paris, for twelve numbers, or one year, 15/r. 



Gratis to members of the Society. 



In an advertisement on the cover, it is stated that these Annals will be 

 composed of twelve monthly numbers, of from two to four sheets each, 

 per annum, with lithographic plates, occasionally coloured. 



A prospectus, serving as an introduction, points out the necessity and 

 advantages of a Horticultural Society to France, the advantages that will 

 result from public exhibitions of gardening productions, and from the esta- 

 blishment of a garden, and the publication of the Society's Annals or Trans- 

 actions. In order to be admitted a member of the Society, it is necessary 



