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celebrated by Virgil, is most valued in the sunny south, its fruit 

 is fermented into a wine in Corsica and in some parts of Italy. 

 The leaves and bark are said to be rich in gallic acid and to be used 

 in consequence in the Levant for tanning. 



It is, however, purely on account of its beauty that the tree is to 

 be recommended in England. It seems to like a well-drained and 

 warm soil, sand, or, perhaps preferably, limestone, and a situation not 

 exposed to frost. I well remember a large specimen, in a garden on 

 the Greensand in Surrey, among whose oft-forked branches I have 

 climbed with several other children. Its stem must have been of 

 considerable girth, and the tree twelve or fifteen feet high, and I have 

 seen it like a wood full of lilies of the valley, and again loaded with 

 ripe berries — a tree, alas, never to be seen again. It darkened our 

 dining-room windows, and was supposed to make that side of the 

 house damp ; and it fell. 



G. S. BOULGEIl. 

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DB. LYONS, 3LP., AND FOBESTBY ABBOAD. 



^E have much pleasure in publishing the subjoined letter and 

 correspondence sent to us by Dr. Lyons, M.P., whose article 

 on the reafforesting of Ireland in ' Fokestey ' for February, 

 1883, first called prominent attention to the important subject which 

 the able Member for Dublin has taken in hand so energetically : — 



Merrion Squar£ West, Dublin^ 

 January 27, 1884. 

 Dear Sir, — I beg to send you copy of Eeports of Foreign Offices on 

 the Forestry of European Countries. The Eeport on Eussia is partly 

 printed, and I shall send it to you when completed ; others will follow 

 in due course. I have also inquiries afloat in Canada and the United 

 States. The national commercial importance of this inquiry cannot be 

 overrated. It is time for this empire to be alive to the situation 

 which concerns her so profoundly. 



Faithfully yours, E. S. D. Lyons. 

 F. G. Heath, Esq. 



FORESTS IN PRUSSIA (PRELIMINARY.) 



Mr. John Walsham to Earl Granville. 



Berlin, Sept. 10, 1883. 

 My Lord, — In compliance with the instructions conveyed to me in 



