The article on this topic in the Horticulturist for July has left a very strong impression on the mind of the writer, and he would be glad to learn that the same effect has been produced on those best situated to benefit by the valuable suggestions thrown out.

The calculations with regard to profit are by no means extravagant. Though our railroads traverse in the first instance wooded districts, their first operation is so far to enhance the value of cord and other woods, and of the land for arable purposes, that the trees are immediately felled to supply the greedy locomotive, or to convert the land into arable acres, and long before twenty years elapse fuel has become extremely scarce; or perhaps the wood is of a worthless description, and fire is applied, as may be seen on so many of the new routes to the West. Forecast or anticipation of the wants of the next generation is forgotten, and whence our children are to draw their lumber no one can predict; good telegraph poles, and even the sleepers of the road when they require removal, will have to be sought at great expense.

Larch is undoubtedly a suitable tree for such planting as has been suggested. It occupies less space than many other trees, is conical, and would be less in the way; its wood is entirely suitable for the sills of the road, aud it is of rapid growth. I agree with the editor that stock in the tree company offers better inducements for investment than that of most of our railroads, turnpikes or canals. By the way, what a curious thing it was that just as lumber was becoming very scarce, we should all at once have gone to building plank roads.

One of the great expenses of lumber is its transportation. In the interior it is remarkably cheap; railroads and canals offer the easiest mode of transfer, except rivers, and the head waters of the latter are pretty well exhausted of their best timber. We must resort to railroad or canal transport for our future supplies, and how fortunate will that company be which has its millions of hard wooded trees to resort to in the year 1900, or even at an earlier date.

As a means of supplying fruit, the subject is worthy of deep consideration. Take the Maron Chesnut, with its large fruit for roasting, so much esteemed, and so very high priced. A railroad route planted with these trees, for a mere bagatelle, would yield thousands of bushels in a very short time. Eight trees on one small suburban lot yield the owner often one hundred dollars per annum. Peaches, Pears, Cherries, and even Grapes, might very profitably be cultivated on the borders of our thorough fares. If the directors will not do it, they might offer to let the ground under certain limitations and restrictions.

It is asserted that twenty-two hundred full grown trees, or the matured crop of forty-four acres of woodland, are required to furnish timber for a single seventy-four gun ship. This is a great country, it is a true, but it is getting shaved very close of its beard!

[In confirmation of the remarks on the above subject, we cut the following from an intelligent Illinois journal:

"As to the growth of Wood, it is very generally estimated to equal the annual consumption. But it ought to do more, much more than this. True, there is as much wood in the State as is needed, but not where it is needed. Belts of timber skirt nearly every stream, but there are thousands of square miles of choice prairie at least five miles from the nearest grove or " opening." Every land-ower, every speculator, ought to realise the moral obligation resting on him to plant timber. If the owner of each prairie quarter-section distant more than one mile from the nearest timber were required by law to plant at least ten acres of timber thereon within a year, and keep the fire out of said timber by plowing a wide belt all around it, the total value of the lands of Illinois would be enhanced at least one-fourth within ten years. Let the seed sown be part Locust or some other quick-growing wood, the residue Hickory, Sugar Maple, White Pine, Chesnot, Cherry, Black Walnut, etc., and soon Illinois, from being the very wont, would soon become decidedly the best timbered State in the Union."]