TREE-PLAIN TING.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 7

TREE-PLAIN TING.

So small would be the money outlay, so inconsiderate the labour require I, to insure for fcne next generation a wealth of timber land equal to that of which we have the be. >efit, an I shade and shelter trees in even more adequate supply, that it* is a groat wonder to us, amid all the Forcible facts brought forward against (lie rate at w lich forest destruction is iHng on, there has been no more general movement in tree planting. In Germany and Austria for upwards of half a century, the number of trees planted has borne a good proportion to those uiuiuully cut down, and it is certain tliat this is the case now, year by year. In France, Italy, and England, also, tree cultivation is now general, and is held to be a most important matter of public concern. But here, with the characteristic improvidence which has come to be considered a marked feature of colonial chaiacter, we are destoyiug our great virgin forests with a rapidity never before equalle 1 in any other country, and without taking any measures to insure their future growth.