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and Mussoorie just issued, we learn that the Mexican ebony (Cordia 

 ferruginca) has suffered from the severe frosts of the past winter, 

 and that Eucalyptus mdiodora (the Victoria yellow box), a species 

 with sweet-scented leaves similar to those of the well-known 

 Eucalyptus citriodora, flowered last year and has ripened seeds. 

 All the specimens are thriving; this species appears to be well 

 adapted to the climate. Seeds of Quillaja Saponaria (or Cullay of 

 Chile), the bark of wliich tree is so remarkably rich in saponine, 

 have been sown, though as yet they have not germinated. 



From the Horticultural Gardens, Lucknow, so many as'SSl'S 

 trees were distributed la^fc year. An acre has been planted with 

 mulberry trees (Morus midtkaulis) as the nucleus of an experiment 

 in silk-culture, and 1600 mango trees were raised for free distri- 

 bution. A small plot was planted with China grass to meet the 

 increasing demand of that fibre for experimental purposes. 



CoxTiNUOUS Growth in Blown Timber. — According to the 

 Timber Trades Journal, many trees, esj)ecially in Ireland, blown 

 down by the great storm of last winter, carried their roots with 

 them and sufficient soil to provide the sap with sustenance, and for 

 this season have not had their growth retarded to any extent. The 

 leaves decay several weeks earlier than those of standing trees ; 

 beech and sycamore trees, when in this horizontal position, showing 

 decaying leaves quicker than their ash and oak compeers. Possibly 

 the juices of the tree are diverted throughout the whole surface of the 

 trunk, originating chemical action, which must deteriorate the 

 economic value of the wood. If this is so, the trees most affected 

 will be those whose tops are lying on a lower level than the roots, 

 or are lying in a horizontal position ; those lying with the tops 

 inclined upwards, however partially so, may not be in any way 

 impaired, as the returning sap of the previous year would then 

 maintain a passage towards the roots and keep the pores open for 

 future years' growth. In the peeling of oak and larch bark from 

 the falling trees during the last season, in a great many instances 

 the sap did not flow on the under side of the tree ; but undoubtedly 

 the reason of this was the absence of the heat of the sun, and could 

 not the first year of its fall have resulted from the stoppage of the 

 pores. 



Accident. — Mr. William Forbes, forester to Lord Leigh on the 

 Stoneleigh Abbey estate, Warwickshire, while riding into Coventry 

 towards the close of December, met the steam tramcar, when his 

 horse proved restive, and, in falling, threw Mr. Forbes heavily on 

 to the curb on his right side, breaking his right collar-bone. He 

 lias since improved. 



