TREE PLANTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 13 June 1884, Page 3

TREE PLANTING.

So Small would be the money outlay, so inconsiderable the labor required, to insure for the next generation a wealth of timber land oqual to that of which we lmve the benefit, and shade and shelter trees in even more adequate, supply, that it is a great, wonder to us, amid all the forcible facts brought forward against the rate at which forest destruction is going on, there has been no more general movement in tree planting. In Germany and Austria for upward of half a century, the number of trees planted has borne a good proportion to those annually cut down, and it is certain that 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 tho characteristic improvidence which has come to bo considered a marked feature of colonial character, we are destroying our great virgin forests with a rapidity never before equalled in any other country, and without taking any measures to insure their future growth.'