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ABOUT CITY SYLVICULTURE. 



(~^ITY tree-planting is now warmly discussed at the Antipodes. 

 J A correspondent of a Duncdin Exchange calls attention to 

 the classic shades and umbrageous city groves of the neighbouring 

 city of Christchurch, urging that such inducements other than mere 

 money-making are necessary to make civil life endurable in the 

 new aggregates of houses in a young colony. 



According to a correspondent of Land and Water, the cost of 

 planting a tree in Paris comes ultimately to 203 fr. 23 cents, or 

 more than £8 ; but the same author has known trees planted in 

 cities in this country at £1, lis. 3d. each. The cost of mainten- 

 ance may be assumed to vary from one to five shillings per tree 

 per annum. 



SojiE considerable feeling has been excited by the action of the 

 Conservators of Epping Forest in selling small strips or pieces of 

 land, in some instances only two or three perches in extent, at a 

 considerable distance from the main area of the Forest, which is 

 5531 acres in extent. The last order for selling such a strip has 

 caused considerable newspaper correspondence. But it appears 

 that this was necessary to widen the adjoining road ; and the 

 Corporation have insisted as a condition of sale, that the pur- 

 chaser shall widen the adjoining road so as to make it thirty 

 feet wide. 



Dk. Johnson's willow, at Lichfield, one of the most majestic 

 specimens of Salio:; Russelliana to be found, has been destroyed by a 

 storm. The last time the great lexicographer sat under the shade 

 of its venerable predecessor, also similarly destroyed in 1829, was 

 in 1781. Possibly the people of Lichfield may yet succeed in 

 perpetuating the famous tree from a cutting, as was the case of the 

 one under notice. 



The American correspondent of the Gardericr's Monthly, to whom 

 we are indebted for the above, laments the probable changes 

 impending at Eangemore in Needwood Forest, the property of tlie 

 late Mr. Bass, of Bui-ton Ale renown. It appears that the present 

 proprietor. Sir Michael Bass, would prefer seeing fine fields of 

 barley growing for brewing purposes, rather than one of the 

 most beautiful green lawns in England, which used to be freely 

 opened to the public. 



Preston Park, recently purchased by the Corporation of Brighton 

 at a cost of over £50,000, was formally opened on Saturday the 

 15th idt., in the presence of at least 20,000 people. 



