idi THE’ GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Avoust 1, 184. 
Association, as published in the Tribune ‘‘extra.” | much more rapidly as "e Daeg roll on, but we see in | leading association. Being so far away, I wae i 
Every reader wishes well to the cause, but a good | some of these figures in e of rain in some places | not had the opportunity of denying it before: but no 
cause is never aided 5 bad arguments. I would | instead of diminution. Tt ey be said that five years | I can say, on the autho ority of the author of Parks 
ve trees extensively planted, and zealously car is a short peri tis; nina peri - nd Gardens of Paris, that the whol 
for. Ititisa pleasure to note that timber-planting | ever short, a cutting per of forests ought not to coo y a lively writer. Mr. Rob 
is plying popular, but if there were no better rea- | show an increase of r change might be an | that he has it from a frie resided three 
n than Dr. Hough gives, there would be a reaction, | argument ; but an patot in any on 5 years in Egypt, that the statement above quoted 
pe the good cause of couragement would | nothing of most cases, as here, is fatal to the argu. | * en with muc ha tion,” Ta 
receive a staggering blow. nt. There are records of many years which show trees along pon canal ‘“‘are in ximity to 
I have never been able to see any connection | Similar figures to these five years. Indeed, his own | banks.” He seems to kno r otlig. re the “ ivan 
between trees and the annual rainfall. There have Meteorology as New York will furnish them. e | or blooming prairies ; er k further says fins “ 
suggestions enough like these of Dr. Hough. | Government officers kept a table from the first settle- | his thre e years sojourn there the number of rainy 
The farmer who N his leg with his s scythe re- | ment in Marietta, when it was all wood in Ohio, fact 
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m that day he ate blue fish for | few years back, when at least one-half the timber of 
Sinha, and the arguments connecting rainfall with | the State has been cut away, and no difference in the 
are of the same stamp. Dr. H, commences | rainfall has r _— I 
yerk us that there are “stately ruins in canes to hand as I write. Dr. Hough seems himself 
solitary deserts,” and this fact alone he says is a | to have some An Be of this result. Though h 
e has 
“conclusive proof that great climatic charg have ‘e collected 2000 years of records in the State of New 
taken place within the period of hu history i York,” they “do not justify him in supposing that, 
many Eastern countries, once highly cultivated and | in the general av of periods, the a is sen- 
densely peopled, but te.” is | si easing or ishing, althou ey do 
to understand what ‘ coosesire proof” is | show in some cases greater tendency to drought for a 
here, Renee Se 19 Sous mas og e basin of the Salt | series of years together, and often a more equal distri- 
Lake was Tt is now ‘*d : ution of rain throughout the years.” To what pur- 
> ie I a e city | pos hese facts? As we read that there is more 
of 20,000. people ke City—*‘ blossoms like | drought, although the same amount on the w = 
the rose.” Trees abound, and the birds of the air say See the forests has done this ;” b 
have found a home within their br hould w n that in x pes t a 
the Mormons find a second Nauvoo, and : driven equal Geisibulion of r e also mentally ask, 
from their hearths and homes, we should most | “ Did the cleari ing of the Suse do this opposite 
likely find ‘stately ruins” in ‘a solitar as t,” | thing also 
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f till E insists ‘‘the growing merd to floods 
ge? He says, “W ot account for the | and pa may be etd ascribed to 
clearing 
changes which have occurred in these sunburnt and | up of Beocenre > byw e rains ketea find 
sterile plains, where these traces of man’s first civilisa- | their to the str ing i 
tion are found, once clothed with a luxurious vegeta- kaerga T e a N It is very plain that 
ion, except b ing their present condition to | Dr. Hough has never tically in 
imp ut acts of man in destroying the trees observations, so as to kno wn 
and plants whi > clothed the surface and shel- | knowledge of the facts abou he writes. I 
i the sun’s mon: This argument remi had this advantage, and, I is 
in during the past i piece of ground so dry in it asthat which sus- 
In a little book by Wm. lished in London | tains-a forest on the mahas, sod, or beneat 
in 1639, New England's Prospech, the writer | a field of grain, say at 2 feet seeps. at any time in 
p to iin the and disadvantages of | the year, clay, if there, will be found soft and ordinary | 
“He tells of the wild rong loamy earth damp; while at 2 pa 3 feet below 
Concerning L yaa IT will not cole ¢ that I | forest of trees, the similar soil is never wet, and 
ane saw any myselfe, but some affirme that they have | after the growing season, say from August to spring, 
seen a Lyon at Cape cin 4 m Pa is shant 6 leagues | ‘‘it is as hard as. a brick” or as **dry as a bone,” I 
from Boston, Some likewise being lost in Woodes | would almost venture to, say that no water of any 
have heard such ble ing as hem i ee J D. 
‘abate geod: enaks on, physiological botany, he 
|| well ber sumgaised to learn how much moisture is is given 
= ep pane oe ag leaf. Tawoukd 
be no 
the Mormons do. ‘* As the ba was. | Each green leaf is a never-failing spring 
which any one can see for prega” at this’ paar outlets in each wood is not a mere spring, but a cre 
no doubt followed civilisation or tiver; and all this is true oe Dr. 
‘surface of the as a > itur too 
-** protected from the sun’s rays” by the farmer | much shaded will mould.” The earth under pna trees 
after the forests are cleared away as before. Around | would be dry enough, though the furniture were 
all our large cities trees are extensively planted for | damp. Dr, H. tells us that ‘‘ several rainy days have 
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where it is fashionable to argue as Dr, Hough does, 
A distant fact is less easily examined, and in my 
urces of | public aise iscussions of this question I have generally 
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have not, however, these | 
days was limited to three or four!” So this “ 
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with it. They are a result of climate, not pte cause, 
planting encouragement. _ Foreign niger nf 
manage the timber plantations. France ha 
Director-General, and two sub- diviii: ona regeya 
ing the production and sale, the other the poii 
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New York Ciy we ee ee pis -= 556i pear ke But, like 
Penn Yan ag POT We oo onal cual a tear Micon Geen it bears on its 
oaths v NE nds. 433735, -be AOT: ma i toa GE tion ; yet it ‘has. J: 
o I have taken only the first page and followed it in pied and recopied in essays on e 
€ er a comparison of the two seasons was aas till it pye bari thought worthy of being 
given, The forests around these places are cut away | referred to it in a paper on iginal science in a 
ere, wh ma an i 
another, and often «better, DO? it is ‘al 
another thing. We are having a little taste of 
what this thing is coming to in most of our large 
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ordered and the trees came down. 
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