Tree Culture In Germany

Tho cultivation of forest trees is a regnlar business in the llartz Monotaint of Gerinany. To walk tbrotigh the mouutains is said to bo iika passing through a pine garden. The eowiiiir of the pinc seed is done in enclosurcs, carefully prepared lor the ptirposo, whioh aro surrounded by huriiloa to keep (ut the game. Such a foiest garden, as it a called. after a wbile presenta an appearanoe siuiilar to a cornfield in the carly summei Aftor tn-( yoars the yonog shoois are transplanteJ into portions of :he mouutains h liern the trees haf e eithor been he a or b.'own down. Pive fears later, thty :ry calle 1 a thicket, raeause the brsoehes ure then so closel' nterlaced that the hunters cnnDOt iet through them, and they uiTord excellent ebeiter for game. Ten years later the brester thios thera out, lsaving the best sterns for futuro jgrowth. The growth of the tree is slow, Ihc average age of the full-giown tree being 120 years. Tbo soyDg, transplanting, thinniug, and felling go oa as systematically ;is the seed tima and harvest of the farmer, the only difference being that of timo, for whüe a farmar tnfiy reap half a century of haivosts, but few foresters live to seo their trees grown, and