The Harahunjer Gartenr.eUung reports that last year's harvest of tree, 

 clover, grass, and other seeds was generally very short : consequently, 

 increasing high prices may be expected. Some kinds of grass and clover 

 are no longer to be had first hand. Lucerne especially is very scarce, and 

 clovers are short both in Europe and America. Seed of the Scots pine, 

 Weymouth pine, and -4?)ies e.vcrZsfl was abundant last autumn, whereas larch 

 and silver spruce was almost wholly wanting. Acorns were scarce, and beech 

 mast a total failure. It is a noteworthy fact that the same scarceness or 

 almost total absence of certain fruits extended to this country. 



Whale Oil a Cuke tor Scale ox Tkees. — Mr. John Downie, the well- 

 known Edinburgh nurseryman, has recently given his experience of this oil 

 as a cure for scale, a too well-known pest on trees. An apple tree was painted 

 in the middle of December, and the cure was most effectual, the tree which 

 had been so infested that it had ceased to bear fruit, and almost to grow at 

 all, making a clean healthy growth, and subsequent]}' coming into a free 

 bearing state. The oil is applied during winter, when the leaves are off the 

 trees ; and care must be taken not to injure the buds by rubbing it too hard 

 into them. 



It is reported in America that ten million trees have been set out in 

 Minnesota within the past twelvemonth. 



Moving Laege Trees. — In Paris, at present, instead of planting young 

 plane trees as of old on newly formed boulevards, large and well-furnished 

 trees are planted. Thus the newly formed boulevard Henry IV. is furnished 

 throughout with well-grown plants, with stems nearly 1 ft. in diameter and 

 about 30 ft. high. It will be interesting to notice how they pass through the 

 summer. — Garden. 



" The Golynos Oak." — This wonderful tree, which overspread 452 square 

 yards of ground, grew on the estate from which it takes its name, about four 

 miles from Newport, in the county of Monmouth. The diameter of the main 

 trunk was nine and a half feet, from which grew, exclusive of dead limbs, 

 twelve branches, the largest of which contained 472 feet of timber, and the 

 whole product of this enormous oak was 2,426 feet. Its bark, which 

 round the trunk measured three inches in thickness, was estimated at six 

 tons. From the rings in the butt it was calculated that the tree had been 

 growing upwards of 400 years, and from many of its lateral branches being 

 dead and some broken oft", it is presumed it must have stood after it had 

 attained its maturity little short of a century. It was purchased by the late 

 Mr. Thomas Harrison, many years purveyor of Plymouth Dockyard and Dean 

 Forest, in the year 1810 for 100 guineas, and when converted, its total product 

 was valued at nearly £600. The above was copied from an engraving pub- 

 lished by the celebrated publishers, Boydell, Cheapside, T. Clay, Ludgate Hill, 

 and Colnaghi, Cockspur Street. 



Tree-Felling by Electricity in India. — A novel and interesting experi- 

 ment has been attempted ia the compound of the Strangers' Home, Mazagon; 

 and there can be little doubt that ultimately great results will accrue from 

 what may at first sight appear to have been not a great success. The experi- 



