We are very apt to wonder why it is that so much is done ignor-antly in our country, when the old world gets the best skill - the right men for the right places. But the truth is they do no better than we. Mr. Grigor, a noted authority on Scotch arboriculture, gives a deplorable account of the losses through ignorance of employees, as well as of owners. It is not long, he says, before the 49,000 acres, recently planted in the New Forest, will be a worthless barren heath.

Intending to plant Norway spruce, another large owner found he had the comparatively worthless White spruce; and another planter, for Scotch pine, set out some hundreds of acres of the Dwarf Mountain pine, Pinus pumilio, and no doubt wondered why they did not start and grow. Trees natural to moist soils are set out on dry ones, and dry-ground trees are set in swamps and morasses. It cannot be much worse than this in America.