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be both difficult as well as expensive to carry -out this idea on a 

 large scale ; for the plants employed would have either to be very 

 large or very small, having the spaces to receive the small plants 

 pared. The latter mode would best secure a full and valuable crop. 

 If planted immediately after the " fall " of timber was removed, the 

 work would be easier and the results better. 



In conclusion, I may say that the woods within the park were 

 the cleanest kept that I have had the pleasure of visiting. The 

 practice of faggoting may account for this to a considerable extent, 

 but apart from that, the whole was very " trim," and with only a 

 little pruning and a good deal foreshortening, the management might 

 be reckoned to be fairly complete. I have often heard it said that 

 if ever one saw a well-managed establishment in Enijland, " rest 

 assured that a Scotchman was at the head of it." In this case at 

 least that is not true, as the woods and estate are managed by 

 Englishmen, from whose " books " many of our Scottish foresters, 

 etc., could get a few wrinkles, especially in tidiness. 



Many items of interest are omitted, as my limited stay prevented 

 me filling my note-book with elaborate arboricultural details ; besides, 

 a volume could be written in praise of the park. 



EoYAL HoKTicuLTURAL SOCIETY. — At the May meeting of the 

 Scientific Committee of this Society, Mr. Saunders, of Lee, Kent, 

 sent branches of an oak on which not a single leaf could be found 

 which had escaped the attack of the caterpillar of a small moth — 

 Lithocollctis messaniella, and at the same time leaves of a holly 

 much disfigured by that small dipterous fly Phytomyza illicis. The 

 Rev. G. Henslow showed sprays bearing fruit of last year, of a 

 single shrub of Lauristinus, in a spot overhung by a Deodar, and 

 otherwise shaded. Bushes well exposed bore none. 



