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vital question to the man who invests money, time, 

 or labor in the enterprise, and the question I have 

 aimed to answer. 



In treating of forest - planting I have, to some 

 extent, done nothing more than give the opinions 

 of great writers on the subject, and in their own 

 language. 



The sources of original ideas in any subject are few. 

 I have, therefore, thought it wiser to copy than give 

 anything of my own, less impressive. 



In a short essay the subject could not be handled 

 with anything like completeness, and in gathering 

 together fragments from the writings of Franklin B. 

 Hough, the Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, Prof. Lovoe, and 

 other's, I have selected that which I thought most 

 valuable, having in view but the one purpose — to 

 present something to the public that would impress 

 them with the importance of this industry. 



In the investigation I learned, through my corre- 

 spondence with the Hon. Thos. Adamson, Jr., Unit- 

 ed States Consul - general at Melbourne, that Baron 

 Ferd. von Mueller, of Australia, had published sev- 

 eral pamphlets on the " Eucalyptm-trees, and the Im- 

 portance of Forest Oidture,'''' but that a copy could not 

 be obtained. Mr. Adamson, however, wrote that the 

 Baron would send the copies in his possession provid- 

 ed I would have them published at my own risk, in 

 a connected form. I have deemed the subject of so 

 great and vital importance that I present to the pub. 

 lie, in this book, a part of the writings of this valua- 

 ble author : 



mrst. — "Descriptions of Thirty.t wo Varieties of the 

 Utioalypti Family. " 



