Now that people are really planting forests, it becomes the more important that the system that will bring the timber into profit with the least amount of labor in the shortest time, should be clearly understood. In the report of the Forestry Congress held in Boston last year, just before us, we have an account of the 200-acre planting of Mr. Fay at Wood's Holl. He commenced to sow seed 25 or 30 years ago, and now some of the trees are "50 feet or more" in height. This would make an average of two feet a year, which seems a very extraordinary rate of growth. The forest is now "a dense body of wood, in places almost impenetrable." To our mind where there is now a dense body of wood almost impenetrable, there will soon be a dense mass of dead material easily inflammable. Notwithstanding all this has been achieved with no more labor than sowing the seed, we should not be disposed to regard the method as the cheapest and best. Our impression is that most profitable forests will be those that will have little dead wood till the timber is fit to cut.

It is a pleasure to note that the views of the Gardeners' Monthly in regard to forest planting, are rapidly gaining ground. Our old forests, with their wealth of fire-inviting underbrush, are not worth preserving. What we want forest associations for is not to save brands from the burning that are predestined to burn, but to encourage the planting and growth of new forests, and to save reckless waste of good material, when it is really being recklessly dealt with. An able article in the Germantown Telegraph, of this tenor, suggests this paragraph.