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May 25, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
The ey of timber consumed in one way and 
for pit-props mone be left to rot on the ground, as 
described b . S. W.,“ is much to be deplored, 
seeing, as he „ that wood for the same pur- 
if not for themselves, for their successors, 
can do this, and in a it, utilize waste 
— have not only rred a benefit 
successors, but on the — paent 
Surely vei Biar that can be in this 
country is h growing well! and 10 rip a ry neon 
loss when, thar through neglect, or wan 
ledge, forests are allowed to 
being allowed to rot after being gales 
“J, S. W.“ describes, or by being asesi snthinned and 
rendered useless. The landown plan 
judiciously, thins — — wells jaiai k 
alm — rate profit if he live 
actually 
ound, 
on their 
n to re 
mode — old — 4 il 2 he does not 
— the fruit of his labours, he may see a certain 
amount of profit secured for his successor, John 
Thomson, Clovenfords, 
VEGETABLES, 
EXTRA EARLY MILAN TURNIP. 
As an early variety, pa is by far the best, and a 
better Tarnip in every way than 2 top Munich 
As a proof of what a qu nick a it i 
few rows on a south border of — garden on 
March 5, and have been using — it since May 5, 
the bulbs being about the size of billiard-balls, 
Compared with Manich, it 
respecta Veitch’s Red Garde 
much earlier than that — — variety. A, H. 
Late SEAKA 
— to the general —— z all kinds of Deet 
tables in the lat 
glad w é: rn our attention to Seakale, a most ian ett 
vegetable, and one that few gardeners now force in 
here it grows. When the home-grown roots 
are taken up to 5 forced in the Mushroom- house or 
elswhere, where a y temperature, not N 
be 3 the “thongs,” that is, the 
small roots, that are trimmed off to make the roots 
of convenient size for being stowed close together 
in light soil, should be put on one side for N 
t suffices at that time to put them in 
toil where they are come-at-able in — event * 
In e sort out all that are as thick as 
cut them into pieces of 6 or 8 * 
ows at 3 feet by 14 
foot apart on well-manured trenched land in an 
rod part of the garden, The sete should be dibbled 
in, and made firm, and when the 888 appears 
out of all the shoots, except the strongest Wak 
ae ry ply the hoe between k chee and in 
moan a dressings of fish-m or pa 
produce few flowering ronid and those 
which a —— should be removed e 
remark applies to the small side-shoots, which if 
e to remain rob the plant. In 
November clear away the leaves, and put a 
ni ban E high of fine -ashes over 
each This keeps the moist and 
roots 
cool, and 1 shoots come out of it clean-looking 
s cool and natural treatment of 
the 
dry nature, copious waterings must be afforded the 
plants in dry weather from Jane to September. To 
have the — gwen blanched, the soil between 
the rows should be placed over the heaps of coal- 
ashes, the more effectually to ere? the light, and 
be made firm with the nag as er the et ; this 
should be done before th made. The 
added soil should be quite jè oh at in 5 To 
keep some of the plants to as late a date as rr 
I cover them with long dry litter, and t 
out much of om sun-heat. If —— — bres 
tiful, it answ ll covering 
plants, and soil is not needed, but the leaf-mould 
the covering, but even then 
artially green top being a vegetab 
good as that which is blanched, G. yt hes. 
ElLLau's Earty Dwanr CABBAGE, 
This useful variety hae been many times extolled 
in the gardening papers, and nothing new can be 
said about it, unless it be merely to record its beha- 
viour this year. At this garden it came through — 
winter admirably, and I may safely say that 
10 per cent. have perished, which is a marve 
amall amount of loss, considering the slightness of 
the covering rp snow, which remained efficient as a 
covering for a few days only, hen ice took the 
place of snow the plants — — enough, 
but on the advent of mild weather they started into 
ve a scar dey of nice compact 
Not a plant bolted, I have 
grown Ellam’s Early for many years as a variety to 
come into use early, and it has never failed me. 
J. Easter, Nostell Priory Gardens, Yorkshire, 
Book NOTICE, 
MANUAL OF ForesTrY. By William Schlick, 
C.LE. Vol, I1].—Management of Forests. (Brad- 
bury, Agnew & Co). 
Forest Management,” Pro- 
pons Schlich, in the third volume of this excellent 
the read 
er with able expositions of 
eres branches of forest science, viz., Forest Men- 
suration uation, and Organisation. The two 
3 works on the named, ra the 
esult that, — nothing ae novel can be 
tisi no important points have bee 1 which 
are essential to a clear understanding of these 
* K of advan orestry. 
art I., t ses and construction of yield- 
. on fa ag 9 are fully ar tate together 
with the various methods devised by Hartig, Drandl, 
Urich, &c., for measuring sample-plots in growing 
woods, 
The part devoted to Forest Valuation gives the 
arious formule used in calculating the returns 
obtainable from land under timber crops, which are 
lueidly set forth and explained, and a careful perusal 
of this section will give the owner of woodlands a 
co 98 view of the financial mals of 
timber-growing. 
Under the heading, og neo and Prepara- 
tion of Workin ng Plans,” the author goes into the 
chtung of German — While we 
fully agree with his remarks on the choice of a rota- 
tion, the e laid rg (p. 205) that “the 
financial rotation high in localities with an 
out by continental experience and custom. For 
1 we usually find the crop 
arrives st maturity earlier than one where the soil 
and situation are eaa By maturity we mean, of 
„the of the average increment in 
mum annual increase in volume occurs at 
paratively early age, although much „ upon 
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species and Possibly, however, the author 
uses word “ locality ” in ite general sense, and 
not as the equi tof“ alters the 
case y. The priocipal for the 
determi of the normal yield and the conver- 
sion of the natural forest into a normal condition as 
stock, increment, are briefly 
sketched, the sylvicultural method of Judrich, ar 
regards 
the chief feature in the working plan, meeting with 
the most favourable 
me meets with a less favourable re recep- 
re the cause 
must be sought for in the nature of the subjecte upon 
which it deals, > book 2 with formule is 
not likely to pro to the reader, 
who possibly —— to mind bed quarters of an hour 
— ergunieation, on 80 te a branch of 
forestry entirely ignored in — country. It — of 
course, a subject which the woodlan 
prietor more closely than the governed: orester ; — 
until the former recogn 
study of the — by the latter 
can have little influence 3 his work, The 
numerous instances of woods 
tive may be traced to the pA ate Eye y definite 
ee as to prod ene. 
and until of an the 
—— of — — — — his w 
little 
oods, 
those temporarily in 
hazard 
charge to remedy the present hap- system 
of felling. Sach „ of course, 
but 3 in some — 
usually con 
and its industries, and there is no reason wy British 
forestry should languish for want of them. 
FRUIT REGISTER, 
PEACH EDWARD ANDRE. 
Tuis is a handsome early free-stone Peach, raised 
and sent oat by M. Nazet of Trevoux, The skin is 
of a rich vinous red, the flesh being also mottled 
with the same colour. It ripens earlier than Hales’ 
Early, and is reported to be of excellent flavour. 
= coloured figure and a description are given in 
he Revue Horticole for May 1. 
Tae Lorn Napier NECTARINE at GUNNERSBURY 
Hovsr. 
Tais is probably one of the finest—perhaps the 
finest trees of this Nectarine in the coantry. It fille 
the whole of the interior of a house 24 feet by 
13 feet; its foliage is superb, and it has 
400 fraits, which are rapidly swelling. Any fruit 
formed below the level e 3 3 
near the simply ng the shoot which 
the frai e in position by placing a 
wooden . 
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