For posterity's sake, then, if not on other grounds, should this subject re ceive the best attention of all owners of land. That a vast amount of good would be done to the country, no one can doubt, while, over and above all other considerations, in a few years there would be such a pleasing variety of scenery as would doubtless induce many now temporary residents to make it their home for life. The country would, in fact, become more habitable, for it cannot be ignored that multitudes of our fellow-colonists regard a sojourn in the Colony a« simply a means for enabling them to spend the re mainder of their days amid other scenes. This may be the case with even some of our landed proprietors, and therefore one reason why they bestow so little attention on the improvement of that which will be theirs for a limited period only. If so, we cannot but imagine theirs to be a short-sighted policy in the extreme. No one ever planted trees who did not get amply repaid in every way. It is an old adage which says, " Trees grow while men sleep," and it is an acknowledged fact that money invested in such property yields most handsome returns. In a district like our own, which is, as we have remarked, singularly devoid of the higher species of vegetation, men may also be urged to planting as a kind of virtuous em ployment, and which may be inculcated by moral motives — particularly from the love which we ought to have for our country, and the regard which we ought to bear to our posterity. We are prepared to hear that those who speak in this fashion concerning posterity are often looked upon with the eye of ridicule — especially by the more selfish part of mankind. Indeed there are many who echo the feelings of the peevish collegian, who, when pressed by the Society to come into something that might redoind to the good of their successors, said, in bis usual manner, " We are always doing sorvrthing for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us." Again, they are inex cusable who fail in a duty of this nature, since it is so easily discharged. 