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View in the Japanese Garden, Tilly Nirseries, Kildark 



[Hely & Co. 



irritation of the miirous membranejare more prevalent 

 tlian where such trees do not exist. " 



The third annual report of the F'orcstry Committee at 

 Cambridge marks progress. For the past year Dr. 

 Henry has given a series of lectures and conducted 

 excursions to woods and plantations in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cambridge. Last jear Dr. Henry made an ex- 

 perimental sowing of different kinds of elms. The 

 resulting seedlings are interesting, showing that some 

 trees that were supposed to be varieties of one species 

 are in realit}' a combination of two species, in which 

 Mendelian ratios are observed. This has drawn 

 attention to the great vigour of certain first crosses of 

 trees which have arisen in the wild state. For instance, 

 the "Cricket Bat" willow, which is one of the most 

 valuable willows we have. Dr. Ilenr)- has come to the 

 conclusion that this is a cross between Salix alba and 

 S. fragilis. This year an attempt is being made to 

 raise new forest trees. Eucommia ulmoides is known 

 as the hardy rubber tree, and was found in the mountains 

 in central China. A small plot has been established 

 near Norwich for experimental purposes. The bark 

 produces 5 per cent, of rubber, the quality of which, 

 however, is still a matter of doubt, as only minute 

 quantities have been tested. At Glasnevin the Eucom- 

 mia makes fair growth ; it is a deciduous tree with a 

 leaf similar to a large elm leaf. If the twigs or leaves 

 are broken and pulled gently apart one sees small 



strands or rubber joining the separated parts. The 

 rubber does not flow out of the stem in the form of a 

 milky latex as in the case of the para and other rubber 

 trees after an incision is made in the bark. 



Japanese Gardens. 



JAPANESE gardens appear to be attracting a good 

 deal of public attention at the present time. They 

 seem to have caught the popular fancy in 

 England, at least in southern England, and the recent 

 establishment of one designed in an elaborate scale at 

 the TulU' Nurseries, Kildare, has given rise to a con- 

 siderable amount of interest in Japanese methods of 

 gardening in this country. On a day last month and in 

 glorious weather a large party of gardeners (forty or 

 thereabouts in number) belonging to the Irish Gardeners' 

 Association paid a visit to these nurseries in order to 

 see a tj'pical Japanese garden designed by and carried 

 out under the direct superintendence of a Japanese 

 gardener specially engaged to carry out the work. We 

 may. therefore, consider it to be a true representation of 

 the style of gardening peculiar to the " flowery land " 

 of the far East. That the visitors were interested goes 

 without saying, but whether they all really appreciated 

 or even understood the underlying idea of its conception 

 and execution is, perhaps, doubtful. For the ideas and 



