April 1885.] EDITORIAL NOTES. 403 



Editorial Notes. 



About Ourselves. — Space is only left briefly to express heartfelt 

 thanks for the encouragiug welcome our new departui'e in journalism 

 has received during the last six months. We are obliged to con- 

 tributors, subscribers, and advertisers, as well as for the flattering 

 press notices in this country, in America, and in France. As in the 

 past, performance rather than promise shall be our watchword. 

 Already a goodly store of matter is in preparation and promised for 

 our eleventh volume. We propose further to develop our feature 

 of pictorial illustrations. Original delineations of tree groups in a 

 Gloucestershire park, and technical illustrations of fencing accom- 

 panying the First Prize Essay of the Scottish Seed and Nursery 

 Trade Association, are samples of our new programme. 



Proposed Foresters' and Gardeners' Benevolent Institution. 

 — The establishment of a new Scottish Association of this kind is 

 being mooted. Our correspondence columns are open for the con- 

 sideration of this mattei". 



Might we also suggest a Foresters' and Gardeners' Club, em- 

 bracing lodging accommodation, on a commercial basis ? 



Eeclaiming Land from the Sea. — The Mark Lane Express has 

 suggested work for the unemployed in reclaiming land on the Essex 

 coast, and protecting it against the incursions of the sea. Why 

 not ? Even though the present land on this coast is so poor that 

 in the present condition of agriculture it is left uncultivated, still, 

 from a forestal point of view, as sliown by the Landes near the 

 Pyrenees, such an undertaking would pay. The series of papers by 

 Dr. Brown, concluded in this number, deal with one aspect of this 

 problem ; and another higli arboricultural authority may be antici- 

 pated shortly to give the results of a visit to the regions of the 

 Pinvs iimritima. But in truth the planting of reclaimed sands has 

 already been proved to be a safe and successful operation, and 

 therefore an available outlet for the unemployed, even should 

 Government assistance be requisite, as has been suggested. 



French Sylviculture. — In the annual report submitted to the 

 Society of French Agriculturists recently in session at Paris, it is 

 stated that the permanent Commission of section 4 recently visited 

 the domain of Petit - Eourg, where it was most favourably im- 



