I have always contended that whenever it shall be proved profitable to grow trees for timber, the universal genius of our people for seeing a dollar, though in a distance, would give us all the timber we need within a quarter of a century, and that the talk of untold hundreds of years to replace a rotting forest is rather wild. To show how fast a tree will grow when it has the chance good forestry would give to let it grow, a maple tree {Acer dasycarpum) near our office, will illustrate. Exactly 21 years ago this month, I bought the ground and a young maple tree, possibly three or four years old - or about three inches thick, was suffered to remain. To-day I measured it and found it, four feet from the ground, nine feet six inches in circumference. I doubt whether any maple could do better than this; but it shows what can be done. Much of our present forest land is mere waste, and "ruthless" as the woodman's axe often is, it is as often merciful. There are yet thousands of acres, sustaining nothing but wild animals, that would support thousands of people if cleared for farm or garden crops, and with half dead trees inviting forest fires, that should be cleared.

We want as much new forest planted as old forests preserved. - Thomas Meehan, Phila.

In the April Number, advertising page 11, is the statement that the Cowtborpe oak in Yorkshire, Eng., is the largest tree in Great Britain. I have never seen it, but have seen the "Wingfarthing oak" in Norfolkshire, about seven miles from Athleborough. In 1884 I paced the circumference of the tree at 90 good paces. It seemed to be a conical trunk of some 75 or 80 feet in height, hollow mostly, and shooting off vigorous and green limbs from the top, giving it a dumpy appearance. The evident antiquity of the decaying trunk, together with the flourishing growth of the topmost leaves, seemed to suggest an uncanny union of death and life. Near by was a smaller tree which would have attracted great attention elsewhere. The general contour of Norfolkshire land somewhat resembles the prairies of Iowa. Some one has written of the "prolificness of England." • It is certain that birds, beasts, trees and men do thrive there. - G. St. John Sheffield.

Everyone Knows, in a general way, that thoroughness and high culture are essential to success in every branch of horticulture ; yet very few, after all, possess a working knowledge of this intense culture. There are few who have actually tested the possibilities of the soil and of plants. But when once a man has experienced the results of the best endeavors, he immediately enters a realm of new and wonderful interest and profit, and will not return to poor practice.