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wlien well established. Their blue flowers are larger and more 

 saucer-shaped than the Sell! as. Grape hyacinths are also showy ; 

 tliere are many sorts of them, and all should find a place on tlie 

 rockery. I use all these smaU flowering liulbs for putting into 

 the corners and crevices of the rockwork, as they do not interfere 

 with the plaut in its own division, and the}' look gay, and set off the 

 rockery at a time when flowers of any kind are much appreciated. 



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LIKE Scotland, this part of Denmark has many acres of heatli lautl 

 (inly fit for planting, and many more, under corn, so poor that 

 they should be similarly ajjplied. liut the Danish Heath Society, now 

 eighteen years in existence, has successfully changed the face of the 

 country. Nearly 40,000 acres of waste land are now occupied in 

 tree-growing; while bj' a thorough organization, upwards of £6000 

 was spent last year practically in re-afforestation of the Danish 

 jieninsula. Over 2000 acres are now planted imder its ausj)ices 

 yearl}'. It is now apparent that one of the most pressing social 

 problems of this winter will lie to find work for hungry thousands 

 <jf imemployed, because of the continued trade depression. The past 

 history of the Heath Society in part solves the problem. It is an 

 educational institution, as it showed to visitors at the Forestry 

 Exhibition by its maps, well-bound volumes on separate forestry 

 subjects, as well ,as of its monthly magazine. The maps of its 

 operations weie the admiration of practical surveyors ; and they 

 displayed in a manner new to British eyes the Danish method of 

 making new soils on barren foundations, so as best to encourage tree 

 growth. But the Society also keeps up experimental stations, the 

 chronicles of which are given in its magazine. Pupils here may 

 also receive practical training in arboriculture, as well as on its 

 three heath estates. It employs three clerks ; seven foresters and 

 assistants ; three drainmg engineers, whose province lies in the 

 reclamation of fens and peat bogs, in attempting which canals and 

 meadows are formed. Again, two marl seekers form part of the 

 staff. Horse tramways, in one instance 15 English miles long, are 

 laid down to convey the marl from the pit to the bog it is to cover. 

 Here, then, we have a private society accomplishing the aims 

 practical and theoretical of forestry education. It works within 

 itself, though aided by an annual grant from the State. Indeed, its 

 working might go on independently of this. Upwards of 4000 

 members give a yearly subscription of about five shillings ; ■while 

 an honorary committee, at the head of which is Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Dalgas, the founder and life of the Societj', practically direct and 



