668 The your rial of Forestry. 



The Penruyn Estates. — Mr. Pennant Lloyd, Higli Sheriff of Flintsliire, is 

 about to give tip the management of the Penrhyn Estates. He will be suc- 

 ceeded by the Hon. Sackville West, brother to Lord Delawarr. The Penrhyn 

 tenants are going to present Mr. Lloyd, on his retirement, with a splendid 

 Portrait of himself, executed by Mr. Sant, R.A. Major Plott, High Sheriff of 

 Carnarvonshire, will preside at tlie presentation proceedings. 



The Moreton Bay Pine {Araucaria Cunnincfhamil) is, without exception, 

 the most ornamental and useful tree in Queensland. Its beaittiful regular 

 pyramidal form, and the sombre green of its awl-shaped foliage, command 

 general admiration. It covers immense tracts of land along the coast and in 

 the interior. Jt often rises to a height of two hundred feet or more, and over- 

 tops all other trees, whether growing on the alluvial banks near rivers, or upon 

 the steep and rugged mountains in the interior. Its branches are produced in 

 whorls from six to eight, horizontally and spreading. The bark is thick and 

 brownish. The timber is an article , of great commercial importance, and is 

 used extensively in the colony. The wood is strong and durable when kept 

 dry, but soon decays when exposed to alternate damp and dry. When 

 procured from the mountains in the interior, it is fine-grained, and is 

 susceptible of a high polish, which excels that of satinwood or bird's- 

 eye maple. The resin which exudes is very remarkable, as it has all the 

 transparency and whiteness of crystal, and that portion of it which adheres to 

 the trees hangs from them in the shape of icicles, which are sometimes three 

 feet long, and six to twelve inches broad. 



The Trees in Sackville Street, Dublin. —Aiyropos of the then expected 

 visit of the distinguished statesman now sojourning in Ireland for the first 

 time, and whose skill in wielding the felling axe is so well known, our pleasant 

 contemporary Zoz was very happy in last week's cartoon. The scene is 

 Sackville Street, the prominent features of the picture one of the tree guards 

 encircling its moribund charge, and two specimens of humanity. Of these 

 one is Mr. Gladstone in travelling costume, and carrying a bag filled with 

 pamphlets labelled " Vaticanism," and farther stuffed with post-cards ; the 

 other is a son of the sod. The statesman, addressing the latter, blandly says, 

 " Well, Pat, my boy, I've come to see you, because I can't get on without 

 you ; couldn't you think of some good grievance before next election ; is there 

 anything I can do for you ? " Pat, leering quite innocently, replies, " Well, 

 then, plaze your honour, as you are here, you might as well cut down them 

 trees in Sackville Street," pointing at the same time to the flourishing 

 specimen of municipal arboriculture in view. It is a hint, and well timed, if 

 the hint be taken, and anything is to be done now in the way of replanting, 

 or, if not, removing altogether what are at present an eyesore and reproach. — 

 Irish Farmer's Gazette. 



Large White Oak in Michigan. — Mr. Dow Lyon, of St. John's, Mich., 

 says he has a white oak growing which at three feet from the ground measures 

 seventeen and a half feet in circumference, and he judges that the first large 

 limb is sixty-five feet from the ground. It is very symmetrical for the first 

 forty feet or so. 



