This Duke of Atholl should be named and known for evermore as the great Tree-planter of Christendom.

We have already dwelt upon the benefaction that such a man leaves to coming generations.

This Scotch nobleman virtually founded a new order of knighthood far more useful and honorable than the Order of the Garter.

To talk of _garters_!--why, he not only put the cold, ragged shivering hills of Scotland into garters, but into stockings waist high, and doublets and bonnets and shoes of beautifully green and thick fir-plaid.

He planted 11,000 square acres with the larch alone; and thousands of these acres stood up edgewise against mountains and hills so steep that the planters must have spaded the holes with ropes around their waists to keep them from falling down the precipice.