We are sure it will be a surprise to the readers of the Gardeners' Monthly to learn from a European magazine that Thomas Meehan believes that forests cannot be planted to any profit in America. Thomas Meehan has said that it is unlikely forests can be profitably planted on the thick setting and thinning plan, but to his mind this is a totally different question. No one has been more strongly given to urging forestry planting than Thomas Meehan.

But then among the lost arts seems to be the power of correctly stating the argument of an opponent.