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liorae consumption as demand requires. Ifemove timber and other 

 plantation produce durin.L;- frosty and dry weather. 



Iveep fences of all sorts in good repair, and attend to rabbit-proof 

 netting. Trench and prepare sites where it is intended to plant 

 young hedges in the spring. 



Continue to attend to evergreen and ornamental trees and shrubs 

 (hiring snowstorms, and see that tlieir branches are not weighed 

 down and broken by the snow. 



Where large trees and shrubs liave lately been removed, it will be 

 necessary to see to their stakes or moorings. Where not already 

 tinished, no time should be lost in repairing roads and walks by 

 stirring and gravelling, which should be well rolled in. Where 

 ground has been cleared by the removal of plants from the nursery, 

 it should be well trenched and turned up during fine weather. As 

 time and weather permits, fill up with young stuff all vacant ground 

 that has been well manured and cleaned. 



Lewis Bayxk. 



Kinmcl Park. 



Sale of Exglisk Timbek. — ]\ressi-.s. Eogeis & Hamar held a sale of timber 

 grown on the Eotherwas Estate, Hereford, on Dec. Gth, when tlie i)rices fetched 

 were satisfactory. Tliere were tliirteeu lots, consisting of oak, elm, ash, and larch 

 trees, coppice wood, &c., the total amount realised being ,£1,(J73 10s. The chief 

 l)uyers were Messrs. Groom & Sons, Wellington ; Jones & Sons, Llangunider ; 

 Barker, Shrewsbury ; Connell, Hereford ; and Higeon & Jones, Llangollen. — 

 Timber Trades Journal. 



English Giant Oaks. — In an article by Mr. W. Senior in Cassell's 'Pic- 

 turesque Europe' on ' The Forest Scenery .of Great Britain,' he states that at 

 Welheck there is the Greendale Oak, an oak estimated to be by one authority 

 seven hundred, and by another one thousand five hundred years old. This oak 

 is probably the Methuselah of his race, although it may be noted that there are 

 few forests which do not, through their local historians, advance plausible claims 

 for a like distinction. The ( Ireendale Oak, neai'ly one hundred and fifty years ago, 

 was. deprived of its heart by the eccenti-ic desire of a former owner to make a 

 tunnel through the trunk. This novel piece of engineering was eftected without 

 any appax'ent injury to the tree ; an opening was made through which the Duke 

 of Portland drove a carriage and six hoises, and three horsemen could ride 

 abreast. This arch is 10 ft. .3 in. high, and (J ft. 3 in. wide. A cabinet made 

 from the excavated oak Avood for the ( "ountess of Oxford is one of the curiosities 

 of AVelbeck Abbey (the seat of the Duke of Portland). It is ornamented with 

 a representation of the grand old tree, which is now shored and supported 

 against the elements, before which it must erelong succumb. The Spread Oak 

 of Thoresby extends its arms over 180 feet of ground, and can give shelter to one 

 thousand horsemen. In the hollow of Major Oak seven persons have dined 

 with comfort, and that is of covirse impossible without unrestricted elbow-room. 

 This tree is remarkably perfect in form, the true type of a sturdy oak that is 

 still prepared to brave the battle and the breeze. The Parliament Oak is a more 

 deci-epit patriarch of Sherwood Forest ; it is supported by friendly artificial 

 aids, and its trunk is now split in twain — symbol, it might be said, of the 

 Government and Opposition, Avhich are the life of the system whose name it 

 bearsc 



