It must not be forgotten that America is a large place; when we talk of American forestry, we may have in mind any thing from a palm to a pine tree. There are doubtless spots in this large place where the native trees of England or other places on the continent of Europe would prove quite as profitable as they have been found in Europe. In other places they may not do at all. In some spots our native trees will be the most desirable; in other, the trees of Europe, or even of Japan, will do better than our own. When we read that this or that tree is no use for American forestry, it simply means that the right spot has not been found for it. When the West smarts under its general failure with the larch, it does not do to say the larch is a failure in America. But the failure proves that we may not expect to take a tree, by nature an alpine, and have the best success with it on low, rich prairie farm land. As the man who despises book "larnin' " says, " it is contrary to natur".