80 EDITORIAL NOTES. [Juxe 



Suburban Villa Farming. — A result of the success anticipated 

 at Lambourne will be the spread of thrift amongst agricultural 

 labourers and amonsst all classes. To have divided the Lambourne 

 estate into forty-acre lots, furnished with l)uildings and thoroughly- 

 drained, fenced, and stocked, would have required £1400 for each 

 peasant proprietor. Now this is thoroughly out of reach of Hodge. 

 ]Many retired citizens or even professional men might welcome such 

 an opportunity of combining town and country life, provided railway 

 facilities are at hand. Indeed, Mrs. Hill Burton, in her interesting 

 and practical book Mij Home Farm, in which she details two such 

 financially successful experiments where in both instances she was 

 a tenant, sums up her experience by recommending all similar 

 cultivators to be their own proprietors. "When such a movement 

 takes effect, the planning of gardens so as to admit more extensive 

 employment of horse labour or machinery in place of the spade, 

 will enter into its oruanization. 



The Canadian Forestry Commission. — The Ajinual Report of the 

 Department of the Interior for 1884, just issued at Ottawa by the 

 Government of the Canadian Dominion, contains a summary of the 

 preliminary report by Mr. J. H. Morgan upon the subject of the 

 protection of the forests of the Dominion by the planting of trees on 

 an extensive scale. He recommends that the Government of the 

 Dominion should, without loss of time, appoint a Commission to 

 co-operate with a similar Commission from every Province in the 

 Dominion, to deal with the question of the protection of the old, and 

 the reproduction of the new forests. The early navigators of the 

 Canadian rivers and lakes were charmed by luxuriant forests of vast 

 extent, where to-day no forest remains to check the chilling north- 

 east gale travelling up the St. Lawrence from its home among the 

 icebergs. Mr. Morgan concludes from his researches that fire has 

 been a greater foe than the lumberman to the Canadian forests. 

 Mr. Thistle, a surveyor and lumberman of great experience, puts the 

 quantity destroyed by fire at ten times that used in the manufacture 

 of lumber. And Mr. Stewart Thayne gave Farliamentary evidence 

 that the annual loss from this cause alone in the Ottawa valley 

 amounted to £1,000,000. An organization to prevent forest fires 

 tlms appears to be an immediate necessity. 



The Himalayan Woodcuts of our April number were originally 

 made from Sepia drawings taken by Mrs. A. Smythies of Dehra 

 Dun. Mr. Smythies further writes : " It is now quite certain that 

 Mr. Graham never attained the great heights to which he laid claim." 



