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state of tliis value, where tlae buildings are old and dlapi dated, would be 

 insufficient to pay the cost of the necessary repairs ; hence in the end it would 

 be a gain to the landlord, increase the production of food, and add to the 

 wealth of the nation. — English Land Tenure. 



Sale of Estates. — CuUaby Estate, in Northumberland, containing 4,OoO 

 acres, has been sold to Major Brown, of Doxford, for £140,000. Recently Sir 

 George Campbell's estate of Edenwood, Fifeshire, was exposed for sale in 

 Dowell's room, Edinburgh at the upset price of £15,000, and was purchased 

 for Mr. Alexander Macdonald, Balranald, at £16,000. 



LoKD Ilchester's grounds at Abbotsbury, Dorsetshire, we are informed, are 

 now gay with a wonderful display of flowering shrubs, of which there is a 

 great collection. There is also a swannery consisting of 1,200 old swans and 

 700 cygnets. The place is beautifully situated in a lovely valley near the 

 sea, and well sheltered by bold surrounding heights. 



Alleged I.\irEorER Cultivation. — Some months ago it was reported that 

 Mr. Marshall, proprietor of Flemington, Inverness-shire, had taken the 

 extraordinary step of incarcerating his tenant, Mr. Alexander Hendry, for an 

 alleged failure to manage and cultivate his farm according to the rules af 

 good husbandry. On the application of the tenant, the Lord Ordinary 

 (Ormidale) granted warrant for immediate liberation, and found that the 

 landlord was not justified in the course he had taken. The proprietor appealed 

 to the First Division, but their lordships have adhered to the Lord Ordinary's 

 decision, with costs. 



A " Golden Bougu." — In the gardens of ISTew College, Oxford, there is a fine 

 avenue of horse chestnut trees, most of which have had some of their lower limbs 

 lopped off, followed by the usual crop of abundant smaller shoots around the 

 original bough. In one tree, however, with respect to one severed branch, 

 these resultant shoots bear, year after year, not green but pale yellow leaves, 

 the summer through — " Primo avulso non deficit alter aureus, et sinili fron- 

 descit virga metallo." It would be interesting to know of other instances 

 of such a veritable " golden bough," and whether any explanation can be given 

 of chlorophyll so remarkably failing to develop its blue-green constituent 

 under no obviously peculiar circumstances. It seems a strange anomaly to 

 find an apparent case of host and saprophyte in one. — ITenrij T. Wharton in 

 "Nature." 



Age eor Cutting Forest Trees. — An English official report furnishes 

 some general rules for fixing on the proper age for cutting timber trees. Much 

 depends on the uses to which the wood is to be applied. Taking the greatest 

 age given, as one extreme, and the youngest for which timber is used in this 

 country, as the other, we have ages all the way from one hundred years down 

 to eight or ten. For purposes of fuel, where the experiment has been carefully 

 made in this country, it has been found most profitable to cut all off at intervals 

 of eighteen years, and varying according to soil and kind of trees to twenty-five 

 years. In some places it might be more profitable to cut young, densely 

 growing trees of certain kinds for hop poles, at a much less period. In the 

 report we have alluded to, much greater ages are mostly recommended, the 

 wood being used for valuable purposes in manufactured articles. The ash, it 

 is stated, may be profitably cut from thirty to forty years-, to be used in the 



