320 LETTERS TO THE EDITOll. [Sept. 



12 feet high; so your bush must be exceptionally flourishing. The 

 flowers are said to be very attractive to bees from the honey they 

 yield. 



Lancaster appears to have suffered severely from the drought of 

 July to whose very exceptional character Mr. G. J. Symons has 

 called attention in the Times. Our Hants correspondent writes in a 

 similar strain. — Ed.] 



TRIPLE CROPS FROM TEE SAME GROUND IN A YEAR. 



SIR, — In the agricultural returns for this year there is one piece 

 of land in Buckinghamshire which returns two crops from the 

 same land. It is now being put under its third crop. It is a field 

 which has for seventeen years successively yielded mangold-wurzels ; 

 crops ranging from 20 to 30 tons per acre. Last year it had cattle- 

 cabbage planted between the rows of mangolds ; some of them now 

 weigh from 10 lbs. to 16 lbs. each. 



With this year, with the mangold-seed, white turnips were drilled 

 on, and have yielded plentifully of fine turnips without interfering 

 with the mangolds, which are a promising heavy crop. I am now 

 planting three thousand cattle-cabbage per acre which, being 

 sheltered by the mangold leaves, do not welt in the hot sun. 

 When the mangold crop is pulled in November, the cabbage will 

 have all the ground to itself till next February, and be serviceable 

 for cows and ewes. 



As cattle-cabbage plants are only 3s. per thousand, it is a cheap 

 and ready crop to get in. 



J. C. King, 



Agent to his Grace the Duhe of Somerset, 

 Bulstrode, Slough. 



A MISTAKE CORRECTED. 



SIE, — The June issue of Forestry contains a list of German and 

 other Forest Periodicals ; but the oldest Forest Journal of 

 the Continent, " Allgemeinc Forst u. Jctgdzeitung {gerjrundet 1826), 

 herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. J. Lehr in Munchen u. Prof. Dr. T. 

 Lorey in Tubingen," is not mentioned. How is this ? — I am, etc., 



Forest Assistant. 



[An overlook. — Ed.] 



