Sale of Timber in Roxburghshire. 



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Lastly, the delicious perfume which so many of these shrubs exhale 

 is not only grateful to the sense of smell, but is regarded as salubrious 

 in a high degree. Of course we exclude the kitchen-garden in our 

 arrangements, but there is another exception from all being ever- 

 green, and we cannot exclude sufficient space for roses, beds for 

 which should be tastefully arranged opposite the principal windows, 

 and large enough to admit of growing at least 100 to 150 plants of 

 the best and sweetest perfumed varieties. And still, in such a piece of 

 ground as we have contemplated, there ought to be sufficient space 

 available for an ordinary sized rockery. Any one who has tra- 

 velled abroad, and watched at home the progress made of late years 

 in that department of gardening, and observed the many beauteous 

 Alpine plants that may be reproduced in all the elegance of form and 

 glowing tints of colour in which they are found in their native 

 haunts, enjoys at once the double pleasure which their beauty yields, 

 and the pleasant memories of Alpine heights achieved, which, when 

 seen again, these favourite tiny things recall. I. A. H. 



Sale of Timber in Roxburghshire. 



On Friday, the 20th July, a Large quantity of wood was sold by 

 auction at Wells, on Sir W. Elliot's estate (Rulewater), in Roxburgh- 

 shire, consisting of larch from 70 feet down to pitwood size, nearly all 

 sound and clean, grown partly in the bark and partly striped ; spruce of 

 fair size ; Scots fir, mostly propwood, with a few trees up to 25 feet (cer- 

 tainly none of the best on the Wells estate, as some of the best fir trees in 

 the south of Scotland are to be found there). The hardwood was not a 

 particularly good lot, with the exception of a few oaks, which were outside 

 trees of crooked growth. 



The wood was all cut and laid in lots, near where they grew, of two to 

 six trees in the larger class. Access to the lots was rather difficult, 

 although not far from a road, and between four and five miles from a 

 railway station. Larch of best quality and size brought from Is. 2d. to 

 Is. 6d. per foot, others from lOd. to Is. per foot. Spruce and Scots fir 

 ranged from 2d. to 5d, Oak sold at from 9d. to Is. 8d. per foot. As is 

 always the way at auction sales, trees of equal quality and size varied very 

 much in price. Two trees, sold separately, lying near, each other, were 

 disposed of at the same price — viz., £2 I7s. 6d. ; the one contained 50 and 

 the other 60 feet. 

 The sale was energetically conducted by Mr. A. Oliver, of OHver and Son, 

 awick. Most of the local buyers, and some from a distance, were present, 

 many of whom remarked on the efficient way in which the trees had been cut 

 and pruned, reflecting much credit on the industrious forester, Mr. Wood. 



M. R. 



