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rounded with four or six canvas screens, the 
object in these cases being to test the effects of 
shade and shelter on the plants, 
Strawberries are being tested on a large scale, 
and 7 by the appearance and crop on this 
year’s plants, are likely to do well. Unfortu- 
satel they are subject to attacks from the little 
beetle, Otiorhynchus sulcatus; but it has been 
discovered thata little liquid tar in a condensed- 
milk tin will attract hundreds of them and other 
beetles to their doom, if sunk in the soil at 
— — among the plants. This fact may be 
worth noting 
In addition to the above experiments, about 
3600 feet of hedge-rows have been pl with 
the primary object of shelter, and with the 
Among the kinds used for this purpose 1 
mentioned 1 Cherry-Plums, Shepherd's 
Bullace, Ame an, Dartmouth, and Siberian 
ere "Prolific Filbert, and Kentish 
Cob Nuts; Prune and white e Medlars, 
Rivers’ Early F Prolific Plum 
Raising stoc also an yoo experi- 
ment. At present the kinds include Crab, Para- 
dise, Pear "Quince, Hawthorn, and Cherry- Plums; 
and it is contemplated adding Ribes aureum for 
Gooseberries and Currants, besides aer species 
of Crategus outside the Hawthor 
At present the farm is in a very exposed 
situation, but on the north-western i 
Abele Poplars, Maples, and Limes have been 
planted, to afford some protection in time to 
come, 
It is, of course, at present impossible to draw 
any conclusion from the numerous experiments 
only just commenced; but it is certain that 
the Woburn experimental fruit farm must be 
regarded as an important centre, from which 
much reliable information, valuable to fruit- 
Mr. J. Wricur and Mr. E. J. Barte on 
behalf of the visitors expressed the pleasure and 
carried out with so much exactness and on such 
a scientific basis. 
CIRROPETALUM ROBUSTUM. — Cirropetalums 
Bulbophyllum, but now classed by themselves. They 
produce their flowers at the sides of the pseudobulbg, 
in the form of an umbel, The 8 are one- 
eaved, They are evergreen 
growing either in pots filled — peat and 
CP Roc ron / 
Fig. 116.—CIRROPETALUM ROBUSTUM. 
growers, ma be obtained. 
FORD and Mr. eee emen. are to va 
congratulated on rte! devi themselves 
experiments, which 
of these 
ought to prove of great national value. 
. by Mr. L. Castix, whose 
labours, what was, twelve months 
me e a piece of waste land, choked 
th weeds, into a clean and well-appointed fruit 
to the Duke 
prepared for the visitors. 
his Grace regretting his inability to attend, and 
When growing, 
na ean 
is the best place for them. The plant of C. robustam 
(fig. 116) shown e Messrs. J. ae & Sons, of 
the Exotic N sea, at the meeting 
of the Royal Hortlenltural Society on Jane II (when: 
it received a Dan 
possessed of flowers, the 
— — Gora 
Tp yellow on d- inne side, i ee abore, 
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the Royal Horticultural Society w 
held in in the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster y 
on Tuesday, June 25, when special 
