Editorial Notes. 379 



Those foresters who intend planting during the ensuing season, and 

 who do not possess that valuable addition to an estate, a home 

 nursery, should take an early opportunity of visiting the nurseries 

 from which they intend to make their purchases, and select the stock 

 of young plants which they are likely to require before the leaf falls, 

 and while it can be easily seen that they have made a clean, vigorous 

 growth, unaffected by either insects, blight, rust, mildew, &c. If the 

 greatest success in planting is desired, nothing tends more to secure it 

 than the careful selection of the young trees from a clean, healthy, free- 

 grown, well-rooted, and properly ripened stock, and the early part of 

 this month is the best time for observing whether or not nursery 

 stock possesses all or only some of these advantages. All young trees 

 should be closely examined before purchasing, to see that they are 

 not infested with insects, or been injured during their period of 

 growth by " blight " of any kind, and if they are found to be either 

 the one or the other, they ought not to be purchased at any price, as 

 they are certain to cause much loss and disappointment, if they do 

 not soon end in an entire failure. There can be no greater waste of 

 money than planting weak, damaged, or sickly trees, and foresters 

 ought always try to secure the very best quality of plants, of a suit- 

 able age and size, for the planting they have on hand. This can be 

 best insured by a personal inspection of the young trees, after they 

 have made their season's growth, and before deciduous kinds have 

 shed their leaves, when it can be easily perceived if they have made 

 a healthy growth and are ripening properly, or if they have suffered 

 injury during growth from blight or insect pests, when they ought to 

 be at once discarded, selecting for use nothing but clean, healthy, 

 robust plants. 



In conclusion, we would draw the attention of our readers to the 

 excellent practical advice and instructions given by our able contri- 

 butors in this and other numbers of the journal, upon the best 

 methods of preparing the ground and making new plantations with 

 the greatest certainty of complete success. 



At the Great International Show held at Carlisle on the 6th, 

 7th, and 8th ult., splendid collections of Coniferous Plants were 

 exhibited by Messrs. Barron and Son, Elvaston Nurseries, Borrowash , 

 Dickson and Turnbull, Perth ; and Little and Ballantyne, Carlisle, 

 to whom the prizes were awarded in the order named. The last 

 named, and I\Iessrs. Clark Bros., also exhibited very fins miseellaueous 



