AN "ARBOR DAY" FOR ENGLAND.
[To ran EDIT. or ram .Brnornron."]
SIR,—Hight not some progress be made in the afforestation of our country if the Head-Masters of all schools, public and private, and the Principals of all Colleges invited the lade and boys under their care to bring one tree apiece, or have them sent to them at the proper season, to be planted somewhere in the environs of such school or College? Apart from the future commercial value of such a plan, it is a pretty senti- ment, and there must be many barren spots and shelterless fields that would be greatly improved. I made this suggestion to the Principal of one Agricultural College, and the idea caught on, he having invited the students to do as my own son was doing—planting the trees he had started in his own little garden at home in the somewhat bare acres surrounding his new and temporary abode. The Principal assured me that, "had they but thought of the scheme before, they would now have been the proud possessors of a forest of over six hundred trees." I pass on this suggestion to you for what it
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