A Recommendation.

/To the Editor of the/ Standard. Sir.--I should like to remind your readers, at this period, that if they wish to plant rows of evergreen for shelter, it can be well done in the last week of July or the first of August. Rows of these trees, whether pine, or cedar, or spruce will be found infinitely superior to maples, with which so many are now forming windbreaks, as the everygreens will give shelter in winter or spring, which the others will not. Passing through some of our front townships lately, I was glad to see that many of the farmers were planting these everygreen rows. Of the trees mentioned the Norway spruce will probably grow quickest. I found a windbreak of lines of Norway spruce and pine, of which the spruce in twenty years had caught up to the pine planted thirty-five years. Now that our original forests are going fast, all should endeavor to plant at least a line of trees along one side of their farms. Planting trees is one of the chief means by which we can hope to preserve the fertility of the soil. Yours &c., R. W. Phipps, Toronto July 15th 1887,