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possesses most wonderfully cleansing properties — that it is offered to 

 the public. In its manufacture Glycerine is combined with Terebene. 

 It is also agreeably and innocently perfumed. The slight colouring 

 matter used is simply palm oil, respecting the valuable properties of 

 which no remark is necessary. As a preventive against ordinary 

 eruptions or irritation of the skin, and for producing a clear and 

 brilliant complexion, this toilet soap has been strongly recommended 

 for daily use ; in fact, in all cases such as the foregoing it will be 

 found invaluable, and for use by medical practitioners in removing 

 all unpleasant odour from the hands ; also in cases of chapped 

 skin the Terebene soa}) will be found most beneficial. 



"We fancy that to our readers — especially from its intimate relation 

 to the subject in which they are specially interested — this excellent 

 article of manufacture must commend itself. 



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FOBESTAL NOTES.— PINUS AUSTBIACA. 



^N the December No. of ' Foresthy,' Mr. W. Lipscomb calls 

 j| attention to an instance — solitary, within his experience — of the 

 ^ failure of a plantation of Phuis Austviaca, its decay dating from 

 the spring of 1880, when it was eighteen years old. 



I am sorry to say I can present many instances of the same fact, 

 the only difference being that here the young trees have not waited 

 till the age of eighteen before showing symptoms of weakness. Our 

 soil (Salbris, Loir et Cher) is mostly dry sand, more or less heathy, 

 and very acid, the calcareous element being entirely absent, so that 

 no agriculture can succeed without the application of lime. The 

 Sologne region is a plain almost quite Hat, and our district has 

 an altitude of about 400 feet. 



The Austrian Tine seems to be able to stand any amount of 

 drought, heat, and barrenness, provided there be a certain amount of 

 lime in the soil. It flourishes even where this element is excessive. 

 In Lower Austria, besides its natural region, the hills, it covers vast 

 plains (»f chalky gravel where nothing else can grc^w ; and it is 

 successfully planted on the arid wastes of Champagne Pouilleuse — 

 between Chalons and Troyes — where the soil is a fine white dust of 

 nearly the same composition. But here it seems to require a fairly 

 moist and clean soil to come away with any freedom, even at its 

 youngest age. Under the best circumstances its growth is much 

 miQviov ioihoX, oi Plniis fijjlvestriti, and wherever the two I'ines are 

 grown together, the Austrian is soon suppressed and smothered by 

 the more rapid and vigorous development of its companion. 



