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JSfurscnj Season's Catalofjucs. — William Fell & Co. have acquired 

 a good name as floral decorators ia conuection with the recent 

 visit of the Prince of Wales to Eothbury and its neighbourhood. 

 Their new catalogue of forest trees, etc., raises the wish when the 

 ground has lost its snow covering to visit their nurseries at Hexham. 

 Planters should write for one immediately. We have received a 

 whole librarj'- of catalogues from Eichard Smith & Co., Worcester, 

 including those on herbaceous and alpine plants, their fine rose 

 plants and lists, as well as that of hardy ornamental trees, etc., and 

 Dutch flower roots. Their book of plants of the fir tribe cultivated 

 at St. John's is a decided advance on nursery catalogues, containing 

 elements of permanent value. The grower of conifers is tempted 

 by its perusal also to peregrinate to Worcester, where many novel 

 introductions from abroad appear to flourish. Messrs. Wood & 

 Ingram, Huntingdon, send a very complete descriptive catalogue of 

 nursery stock, including fruit and forest trees, evergreens, orna- 

 mental trees and shrubs, hardy climbers, roses, etc., also their 

 catalogues of hardy perennial, herbaceous, bulbous, and alpine plants, 

 as well as that of carnations, picotees, and pinks. 



Aromatic Oak Leaves. — Miss Bell F. Hapgood notices in the 

 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, New York, that while explor- 

 ing a grove surrounded on all sides by salt-marshes near Boston, 

 U.S., with two companions, their attention was attracted by a 

 strong, almost hot, perfume which was found to proceed from the 

 leaves of two oak trees, one of which was a mile from the first. 

 Tliree specimens of the common red oak (Qucrcus rubra), varying 

 from ten or twelve to about twenty-five feet high, were found with 

 aromatic leaves. The young red leaves at the end of the branches 

 only developed odour after being dried for twenty-four hours. The 

 mature green leaves lose their odour when pressed, but retain it for 

 a week or more when simply dried. The leaves of the other oak 

 trees in the "rove have no sweet smell. 



At Leyburn, Yorkshire, a joiner of Askrigg was charged, and 

 committed for trial, with cutting down and taking £50 worth of 

 timber and appropriating it to his own use in November, having 

 previously offered to purchase the same in June last, but the terms 

 were not agreed on. 



