78 EDITORIAL NOTES. [June 



Sir Egbert Lloyd Lindsay's Gift to tup: National Land Com- 

 pany. — LamLouruej in Berkshire, the farm of 400 acres piirchased 

 by the generous donor at £10 per acre, and given over by him to 

 further the aims of this association, whose inauguration was chronicled 

 last month, has since had many visitors and several newspaper de- 

 scriptive comments. At present sixteen] miles from a railway, 

 and 500 feet above the sea level, at once recognised from soil charac- 

 teristics by practical men as a sheep farm able to carry about 200 

 breeding ewes and a few cows, with also a great capacity for poultry 

 farming, it does not appear suitable for cultivation by steam or spade, 

 but appears adapted for co-operative farming. Mr. Fuller in the LaTid 

 Agent's Record contrasts this spot with the flourishing Eadbourne 

 Manor Co-operative Farm in Warwickshire. On Lambourne there 

 are only about two acres of meadow out of the 400 acres — the 

 remaining 300 acres being a compound of thin hazel mould on the 

 chalk, some of it so thin as to be unprofitable for cultivation, on a 

 bleak hillside unfenced and not sheltered by trees. The low pur- 

 chase price of £10 per acre tells both of ruin of the farm and 

 previous owner. An expenditure of about £1500 will have to be 

 incurred to put the place in proper order to test co-operative 

 farming. When this is expended, the rental value will be about 

 £150 per annum. If associate labour under a proper leader succeed 

 here, it will be a guarantee of the adaptability of the system to any 

 locality. 



South Australian Sylviculture. — The corporation of the town 

 of Jamestown, which was formerly " a mud hole in winter, and a 

 dust-heap in summer," have changed all that by judicious planting 

 of over 20,500 trees of various kinds. About 70,000 trees have 

 been obtained from the Forest Board of South Australia, and the 

 80 acres planted do not cost the town more than £70 per annum 

 to maintain them in good order. Private enterprise has copied the 

 example of the corporation well by also planting trees in numbers, 

 that from the distant heights the town seems now to be buried in a 

 forest. 



The White Passion Flower. — A lovely specimen now lies before 

 us, sent by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, & Co., of Exeter Nursery, who 

 are making the growth of the Passiflora Constance Elliot a specialty. 

 All the parts of the bloom excepting the styles are white, the fringe 

 or hairy appendage of the corona and the petals being of ivory 

 whiteness. The plant, which is as hardy as the common Passion 

 flower, was awarded the first-class certificate of the Pioyal Horti- 

 cultural Society of London last May. 



