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Agriculturists wishing to make a trial of this invention for the 

 forthcoming season should make application to Mr. Thomas R. Kydd, 

 ' Griff ' Brick, Tile, Agricultural and Sanitary Pipe Works, Nuneaton, 

 Warwickshire, or to the patentee, Mr. E. E. Salwey, Ifield Court, 

 Gravesend, Kent, by whom any further information will be furnished. 



Manufacturers desiring to make arrangements for the supply of the 

 apparatus should forward their applications to the same address, 

 where we understand working drawings may be obtained. 



TBEE8 AND SHRUBS FOB TOWNS AND SUBUBBS. 



T a meeting of the Local Branch of the Arboricultural Society of 

 England, held at the Alliance Hotel, Charlotte Square, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, on Saturday, February 16th, Mr. John Wardle, 

 Newton Hall, Stocksfield-on-Tyne, read an interesting paper on ' Trees 

 and Shrubs suitable for Towns and Suburbs.' Mr. Balfour, Newcastle, 

 occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Mr. Wardle, in 

 the course of his paper, said his remarks were more intended as a guide 

 to amateurs than as information for his professional brethren. It was 

 when walking through towns and suburbs and noticing the unsuitable- 

 ness of many of the trees and shrubs j)lanted that the idea of such a 

 paper occurred to him. The great point to be kept in view was to 

 maintain the soil as rich as possible, so that energy might be given to 

 the trees and shrubs to battle against the dangerous influences they 

 had to contend with. The time when they received most harm was when 

 the trees had just burst into foliage, and when a long season of dry 

 weather allowed the smoke and dust to choke up the pores. In such 

 a case the use of syringe a or hose would be of great service ; but this 

 he was afraid would be too laborious to carry out on a large scale, 

 and must be confined to small gardens. If they looked at tree- 

 planting in towns from a sanitary point of view, every available space 

 ought to be utilised. It would be desirable for our Corporation in 

 forming new streets to make provision for rows of trees, after the 

 style of the Boulevards in Paris, for it is well known that trees give 

 off a large quantity of life-giving gas. In preparing the soil for 

 street planting they ought to have three or four cartloads of turf loam 

 mixed with half -inch bones and rotten manure to each tree, in order 

 to give them a good start. Further he thought that if all the different 

 varieties of trees and shrubs in the public parks had their proper 

 names exposed so that people might become acquainted with their 

 different habits, it would be a great boon to those whose knowledge 

 in this direction was deficient, and cause the frequenters of the parks 



