Country Life
BY IAN N1ALL TREE EARNING—something that Canadians and the paper-making corporations in America know a great deal more about than we do in this country—is to have some encouragement. Farmers and local authorities are to be asked to put down trees, and it seems to me there could be no more worth-while thing, al- though I think it may prove difficult to get the long-term view appreciated. A farmer who puts down a hardwood tree in this country, an oak seedling or even a sapling, can't expect much shelter from it in his lifetime, and it might seem that the growing of trees for pos- terity is altogether a job for the forestry corps. Nevertheless, we have always been in debt to people long dead for our oaks and beeches, and whatever time lag in the habit of planting these trees there may have been it is good to know that efforts are to be made to remedy the neglect, not just by plantings on forestry tracts, but in odd corners where one or two trees will always improve the scene as nothing man-made could.
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