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ing nurseries are open, — all that is lacking appears one or two rooms 

 and students. Will tlie Scottish Horticultural Association not take 

 the matter up ? 



FiiUiT-GROWixc; IX THE CAUSE OF GowRiE. — Dr. Robertson of 

 Errol figured prominently as an apple-grower at the Chiswick 

 Congress. From a paper read in May last to the Perthshire Society 

 of Natural Science, and just [lublished in their Proceedings, he 

 appears to be the life and soul of fruit-growing in the Carse, — a 

 district wlucli the doctor is sorry to narrate has lost its first fame 

 iu apple-growing. Lack of pruning and manuring are assigned as 

 the two main reasons of this decay. But a new era seems coming, 

 for two landlords have this season planted more than a dozen acres 

 iu small fruit ; and great progress is anticipated were a fruit-pre- 

 serving factory established at Errol. One gentleman in the district 

 netted .£200 in one year from 7000 gooseberry bushes planted on 

 speculation; while in 1881, 1700 Ijushes had on an average 

 yielded 2s. worth of fruit each bush. Xear Forfar a gardener had 

 gained 3s. 6d. from the product of one bush, — and at Wisbeach, 

 according to Mr. Charles Whitehead, the gooseberry crop yielded in 

 1883, £75 per acre, and in 1882 fully £100 per acre. The 

 iloctor looks forward to a time when our working men will consume 

 less tea, and make fruit a regular item in their meals. According 

 to him, cooked potatoes with good milk and a few stewed apples for 

 dessert might appear regularly with advantage at our cottage dinner- 

 tables. 



About Exhibitiox Medals. — When it " rains medals," un- 

 pleasant questions arise as to the use of awarding such abundant 

 distinctions. The Alexandra Palace Exhibition organizers propose 

 to adopt the plan followed at Calcutta, by giving the winners of 

 gold and silver medals paper certificates of their victories, allowing 

 them, if so disposed, personally to provide the usual metallic badges 

 of success. Had the Executive of the International Forestry 

 Exhibition adopted this plan, a saving of nearly £500 would have 

 been effected. 



Sir Johx Lubbock. — Unless prevented by unforeseen moves on 

 the Parliamentary chess-board, Sir John Lubbock will immediately 

 call the attention of the House of Commons to the present state of 

 forestry in Britain, and move a resolution. This is as it should be. 



