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with severity the stealers of some trees, while they might cut 

 others with impunity. The old rhyme runs thus, — 



" The aik, tlie ash, and elm tree, 

 The laird may hang for all three ; 

 But for saugh, liobbum and bourtrie bush 

 The laird may flytc, but mat naething o't." 



The object of the British Government, which is now supreme 

 in India, is the preservation of all sorts of timber, and both fruit 

 and fuel trees, for the supply of the governmental departments, 

 naval and civil service, erections, railroads, for great public 

 v/orks, and for the requirements of the ryots or cultivators, and 

 for the supply of fii'ewood to all classes. 



The Government and the ryots alone will be henceforward 

 permitted to cut and carry away wood ad libitum (at their 

 pleasure) . 



The space at our disposal will not permit us to give a detailed 

 account even of the contents of this work. Even if we could, they 

 would not be of such interest to our readers as to warrant their 

 being printed in this miscellany. We may have time hereafter 

 to select a few notes, and for the present this work is heartily 

 commended to all who are concerned in the prosperity of India, 

 the most important dependency of the British realm. 



We have much pleasure in reprinting a single quotation from 

 the Report of Mr. William New, formerly one of our corre- 

 spondents, and nov/ in the service of the Government of India. 

 It is on the germination of seeds. (See 'Cleghorn's Reports on 

 the Forests and Gardens of South India,' p. 44.) " Mr. New, 

 superintendent of the Lall Bagh garden. Bangalore, has raised a 

 large number of seedlings in a nursery, and finds the seeds ger- 

 minate readily if sown within a fortnight after removal from the 

 tree ; but they do not bear carriage well to a distance, and few 

 germinate if a month old." 



It is also gratifying to learn from this work that Major Drury's 

 ' Useful Plants of India,' published at our office, 45, Frith Street, 

 Soho, has had a rapid and extensive sale (in India), and has to a 

 great extent supplied the present want, viz. of a botanical 

 manual of Indian plants, which is preparing by Dr. Cleghorn, 

 the conservator of the forests in South India. 



