30 THE CANADIAN FORESTER'S 



The shade of this tree, 

 Tho' perchance not for me, 

 For others a blessing may spread, 

 As under the branches they tread. 

 Nor would you forbid 

 The prudent provide 

 For others who follow. Howe'er you deride. 

 Such fruit of my toil, each day I eiyoy. 

 As daily for others my strength 1 employ 

 And who can explore, 

 What Kate has in store ? 

 For old though I be, with regret I may see, 

 And mourn over, your premature graves." il» 



CHAPTER II. 



THE PLACES IN WHICH TO PLANT 



I will class under six heads the lands on which re- 

 planting is necessary. 



The first comprises the clearings we meet with iu the 

 forests. Of these I have spoken in the second part of 

 this work. These clearings, whether caused by partial 

 fires, by the axe, by floods, or by storms, are the open 

 doors through which the destroyers of the forests enter. 

 The soil of the bare spots, parched by the sun, no longer 

 ofiers the protecting shade necessary to the growth of 

 the tender plants, and it followsj that the seeds which 

 fall from the trees sprout only to wither immediately. 

 The trees, still more exposed to the attacks of the wind, 

 are, in addition, ravaged by mice and other rodents, 

 which find a hospitable abode in the grass which springs 

 in the clearings. From the two causes united they perish 

 rapidly ; from the violent attacks of the one, or from the 

 imperceptible operations of the other ; and, as no new 



(1) 1 borrow these lines from a little work on forestry, published by the 

 flon. M. Joly. 



