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mash. Its efficiency seems doubtful. I believe that certain 

 colored lights placed in the beds at night will help, not the 

 "worms" but the trees. The Red Cedar transplants well after a 

 month old, but this may not pay. In the ordinary seed bed with- 

 out transplanting, one year seedlings will average six inches high. 

 Best success has been had by transplanting to nursery row or to 

 the field at that age, rather than allow them to remain in the bed 

 another year. Of many hundreds, possibly several thousands of 

 seedlings, one year o4d, transplanted to nursery row, as high as 

 90 to 98 per cent, lived. The spade used like a dibble aided by 

 your feet makes a good transplanting tool. 



I have obtained a fair germination of the seed of Juniperus 

 pachyphloea, Alligator Juniper, by simply soaking seed in ordi- 

 nary water and using no other treatment. 



Robert E. Eastman, 



Lynchburg, Va. 



A recent news item from Canada records the insurance by 

 Lloyds, of London, of six thousand square miles of timber lands 

 against loss by forest fires. This, the first insurance of the kind 

 ever effected on this continent, so far as we know, has been taken 

 out by one of the largest timber land owners in the Province of 

 Quebec, Price Bros. & Co., Ltd., of the city of Quebec. This new 

 form of insurance was brought to the attention of financial circles 

 in Montreal and Toronto recently when Price Bros, announced 

 the issue of $5,000,000 of five per cent, bonds on their properties. 

 The issue is to cover the expansion of their lumber business into 

 a paper making company, with a 150 ton newspaper mill now 

 being built by Jonquieres, Que., in the Lake St. John region, 

 where they are developing 15,000 horse-power. The insurance of 

 their enormous holdings of timber lands against fire is intended 

 as additional security to the bondholders. It covers a term of 

 thirty years. Insurance of timber lands against loss by fire has 

 been regarded as impossible except at prohibitive rates. It has 

 remained for the redoubtable and unterrified Lloyds to prove the 

 contrary. 



We learn that this is not, however, a bona fide insurance, but 

 rather an insurance gamble, such as are generally done in Eng- 

 land, like the insuring of the life of the King up to a certain date 



