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WALES. 



WITH another montli of comparatively open weather, planting 

 will have been progressing under the most favourable 

 circumstances for this season of the j'ear. As weather permits, 

 continue the planting of forest trees in well-drained and dr^' ground. 

 All draining of ground intended to be planted this season should be 

 finished as early as possible. Also continue the other necessary 

 preparations for spring i)lanting, such as fencing, clearing, ploughing, 

 etc. 



Continue the cutting of underwood and the thinning of planta- 

 tions ; also bind up faggots, and prepare firewood, and stack the 

 same for home consumption. Finish the cutting of hedgerow 

 trees, and take advantage of frosty weather, or when the ground is 

 firm, to remove the same, as well as plantation timber. Keep 

 fences of all sorts in good repair, and attend to rabbit-proof netting 

 and tree guards, otherwise plants will suffer during hard weather. 

 Trench, drain, and otherwise prepare hedgebeds for planting young 

 fences in the spring. 



Keep a sharp look-out amongst evergreen and other ornamental 

 trees and shrubs during snowstorms, and see that their branches 

 and leaders are not weighed down and broken by the snow. 



Where the repairing of roads and drives has not been finished, 

 stones and gravel should be put on at once, and well rolled in. 



Trench and turn up ground in the nursery, and fill in with 

 young stuff, ground that has been well cleaned and manured. 



Eoll grass lawns and walks in pleasure-grounds during favourable 

 weather. Lewis Bayne. 



KlXMEL PaUK. 



Chestnut Tkee Disease in France. — At the recent Forest 

 Budget discussion, the Minister of Agriculture was told that 

 so much has this disease spread, that all the chestnuts in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Nantes are dead, as well as those near Eedon, and that 

 it was very prevalent in the South department. The Minister stated 

 that it was yet uncertain whether the insect which accompanies it 

 is the cause or result of the disease. The inspecting forest officer 

 found the best cure was to bare the roots without injuring them, to 

 sprinkle them over with sulphur, protecting them though exposed to 

 the air from the sun by a covering of moss loosely sprinkled over 

 them. This method was giving satisfactorj- results. 



