VI 



miSH GARDENING. 



Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland 



Tin-; iiiontlily iiifftiiit;- of the council was held 

 at the Society's olTices, 5 Molesworth street, 

 Dublin, on the Sth ult. Present: — Lady 

 Albreda Bourke, Sir Frederick \V. Moore, and 

 .Messrs. H. Anderson. 11. Bill. A. V. .Montgomery, 

 !•:. II. Walpole. K. D'Olier, H. K. Kicliardson. 

 W. K. (hinn, .J.l>. : 1-'. \'. Westhy, D.L. : G. iNl. 

 Koss. .M.A., with R. T. Harris, Esc]., LL.D., 

 presidin*^. Kej^rets at inability to attend were re- 

 ceived from The Marquis of Headfort (President). 

 II. P. (ioodbody, D. L. Eamsay, J.P. : .1. Wylie- 

 Ilenderson. and (George Watson. liecommenda- 

 tions of the schedule committee to hold three 

 private exhibitions, for members and friends, in 

 Uns Ajtril isth. .Ivdy Uth, and 17th October — 

 subject to the July and October shows being 

 further considered after the holding- of the April 

 show, were approved and adopted, the schedule 

 for the spring sliow as submitted being confirmed. 

 The formation of a provisional committee to 

 consider the question of Arboriculture raised by 

 the President, to report to the Council, was 

 approved. 



Irish Forestry Society 



Tjie executive conmiittee met at 5 Mulesworth 

 Street, Dublin, on the 7th ult. The following 

 resolution, moved by Mr. R. J. Kelly. K.C., and 

 seconded by .Mr. W. I. Gunn, J. P., was passed 

 unanimously, and copies ordered to be sent to 

 vaiious public oi'ficials, and to all the county 

 councils in Iieland. viz. : — 



*' That in view of the extensive felling of timber 

 going on at present in this country, and the 



absence of rej^lanling. tlie (Jovernment Ije urgently 

 requested to inunediately pass a regvdation under 

 provision of the Defence of the Ilealm Act pro- 

 viding that in all cases where trees in a wood 

 or plantation are cut down, and the proceeds of 

 .sale or value of the timber cut exceeds £;iO, that 

 either one-fourth of this sum, or an amount 

 sufficient for rcsplanting (whichever sum be the 

 lesser) be paid over by the purchaser to the 

 Department of. Agriculture, to Ije invested and 

 held in trust for the owner of the plantation Tint 11 

 such time as he has replanted the felled area, or 

 planted an equivalent area, to the satisfaction 

 of the Department's Forestry Otlicer, whose 

 certificate will entitle the owner to a refund of 

 the sum held in trust by the Department." 



We beg earnestly to point out to the (jovern- 

 ment that in our opinion unless sonie such steps 

 are imm(»diately taken the present attractive 

 price for timber, combined with the general 

 neglect of the duty of planting, will soon lead to 

 the universal and disastrous disappearance of 

 trees in Ireland. 



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