TREES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 12 April 1881, Page 2

TREES.

To the Editor op thb " Evening Mail."

Sir—Wherever one goes, the hillsides, once so-beautiful, present a miserable appearance^.caused by the destruction of the forest trees which once graoed them. It iB in vaiu to appeal to a love for the beautiful to its destroyers. Their pockets are the only vulnerable points. Mr Simonsen, of the Royal Forest Academy, Copenhagen, has just published au essay on the evils of treedestruction, from Wnich the following ex tract is made: —"i_iit the forest land bas yet other beneficial qualities. Commonly spoken, valleys and fiats are tbe localities for agriculture and grazing. Now, if the surrounding mountains aud bills are stripped of the bu.Bb, tha lower places will not, as formerly, receive the suu'b rays from a cool and absorbing surface; but tbe rays are now reflected iv tbeir full intensity from the bald surface of the surrounding slopes. The wheat will now be more exposed to rust, the barley more to blight, and the pastures more oxpoaed to drought. * * * * Destroying iuseots do not appear in the virgin forests; disease iv potatoes ih their v.ild state is unknown."—l am, &c, Spare the Trees. am^mmm9xmmmmmmmmKmm^mmmmmmammu^mm^mmmHm.mmmmmMmmm