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general sportsman, but to the general reader, wiU this volume prove 

 attractive and delightful. The illustrations are especially good, and 

 give a very vivid and realistic impression of the scenes described. 

 We heartily commend the book as another and most interesting 

 contribution to the delightful literature of English topography. 



Days and Huurs in a Garden. By ' E. \. B.' London : Elliot Stock, 



Paternoster I'ow, E.G. 

 This little volume, produced in the antique style, now so mueli in 

 vogue, is the outcome of that love of what we call ' gardening,' which 

 lias produced such an extensive and voluminous literature. The pages 

 which make it up were published first, the author tells us, in a different 

 form, in our contemporary, the Gardener' s Clironicle. Extended and 

 re-edited, they now form a neat little volume, which from its pleasant 

 garden gossip is sure to delight many of those who are votaries of 

 the pleasant and enjoyable pastime. 'E. V. B.' is, we presume, the 

 distinguished artist whose productions are covered by the same 

 initials, and some of whose sketches illustrate the volume before us 

 in the position of head and tail pieces. 



Errata. — ' Foreatal Notes' in .January number, at page 191, line 1: for 'an 

 autumn crop of ^rip grass' (to absorb nitrates), read rye cjrass ; and at page 

 192, line 6, for ' vitrification in the soil," read nitrification. 



The Interxational Forestry Exhibition. — At a recent meeting of the 

 Committee a communication was read from Her Majesty's forester at Balmoral 

 submitting plans of a Swiss chalet, which Her Majesty proposes to exhibit, 

 along with sections of Scots Firwood from the Ballochbuie Forest. The com- 

 mittee, it need hardly be said, very cordially accepted the offer. The proposed 

 chftlet will occupy a considerable extent of space, and, covered with bark, will 

 present a rustic exterior. The sections of Scots Firwood will be shown both in 

 and around the building, and, altogether, the display will form an interesting 

 feature of the Exhibition. 



Girdled Trees. — Some ten years ago, having seven Apple trees girdled by 

 mice, as soon as the snow was gone I took fresh lai"d and coated the part eaten 

 well over. I then heaped as nmch of the soft wet earth over that as I could get 

 to stick. I then took some old rags and tied all securely to the trees, and in 

 the Fall there was hardly a spot but what was covered with a coarse, strong, 

 thick bark. My idea in trying that process was that the sap would rise between 

 the lard and the bare wood and so form new bark. It did so, but whether the 

 idea is correct or not I would not say. For about three months, if the weather 

 is very dry, it is best to water the rag and earth well to keep all moist. I have 

 also saved all my young trees which have had the top all die down, with some- 

 times part of the stem, by cutting oft" all down to where the bark is green ; the 

 stump will then force out more buds than are required ; let them grow about 4 in. 

 long, and rub off all but one or two, according to the height of the stump from 

 where the new growth commences. As all my Cherry trees (the common i-ed) is 

 covered with black knot since spring, instead of cutting them all out I intend 

 next spring to use the same method of putting on new heads as with the young 

 trees — with this difference : I will leave on all the large limbs, cutting them 

 about 2 ft. long from the trunk of the tree, cutting them all off at one height 

 from the ground, to form an even tree head. — Canadian Jlordcnldmst 



