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prevalent use of conifers in some of the Edinburgh cemeteries, is 

 dispelled ; and shrubs recall, so far as floral emblems can, those 

 thoughts of a blessed resurrection which ought to be familiar in a 

 place of Christian sepulture. 



Continuing his walk, this time down to the King's Park and 

 along its northern extremity, the visitor will arrive at Coney 

 Park Nurseries, noted in the annals of Scottish arboriculture as 

 being founded by William Drummond & Co. more than a century 

 ago. The present manager, Mr. John Morrison, is indeed a northern 

 veteran, of the section represented by the late Messrs. W. Gorrie, 

 P. Eobertson, and others. Of his prize essays we may afterwards 

 have more to say ; but his method of treating the breaks of 

 conifers, when planted, with lime and liquid manure, is the marked 

 feature of this nursery of twenty-five acres. So our visitor may 

 traverse many northern or southern nurseries ere he sees breaks 

 of spruce, or Scotch fir, one or two years' transplants, in such 

 magnificent condition. The soil is gravel, which is recognised by 

 agricultural chemists as best fitted to develop the action of such 

 manures on the plant. The locality is well protected. Altogether, 

 there is something in this using of manure in nurseries. 



Ceylon. — Mr. J. Alexander, well known to the frequenters of the 

 late International Forestry Exhibition, has been appointed a con- 

 servator of Government forests under the new Act just passed by 

 the Legislature of this island. 



Cyprus. — The High Commissioner of this island has issued a 

 proclamation calling on the Cypriots to aid the Government in pre- 

 serving the forests. Trees marked for the purpose by the Forest 

 Department are only hereafter to be cut down. Formerly a tree of 

 enormous size was felled to make a trough, using only a hundredth 

 part of the timber ; and perhaps the next day another forest 

 monarch, to make a shovel handle. So for every hundred trees 

 which were standing, seventy-two had been felled, and were left 

 rotting on the ground ; while there were only twenty-five seedlings 

 for this number of standing trees. To prevent injury from indis- 

 criminate pasturage by goats, reserves are to be absolutely closed for 

 a certain number of years ; and when they are opened, other portions 

 of forest will be closed. Eesin, formerly extracted in so barbarous 

 a fashion as to cause the death of the tree in seven or eight years, 

 is not to be gathered till the forests have recovered themselves, after 

 which a proper system of extracting resin may be practised. 



