It seems too bad that after waiting some fifty years for forestry profits, the English and Scotch should find their hundreds of acres of larch an " arid waste " so far as bankable returns are in question. The timber instead of being durable as the forest enthusiasts who write books and give forestry addresses at conventions and fairs insisted, is at length proved to be "sadly wanting in durability," and they have to depend on Norway yet for " deal," as they term the timber of the Norway spruce, for all their leading work.