480 
emergency. Farmers and fruit-growers are often 
of a lack of enterprise, when in reality it is 
practically impossible to aolve offhand be problems 
which suddenly confront them. Garden and Forest. 
п EVERGREEN."— This із the name of a book issued 
in parte, and pers orga ple in Edinburgh, 
London, and Amer Tae second issue, now ready, 
is sub- "titled V The "Bo ok Posi and, accord- 
ing to the prospectus, “ will be divided into four 
correlated parts: — L, Autumn in Nature; LE 
Autumn in Life; III., Autumn in the World; IV., 
Autumn іп the North." Tae publication is to con- 
tain biology, sociology, fiction, poetry, and other 
very diverse kinds of contribations, all from prac- 
tised pens, 5 many of them illustrated. Farther 
information obtained from Patrick GEDDES 
and bie Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. 
VEGETABLE уњ in Porto Rico.— 
Besides Sugar and Coffee, 
mately associated with Bic rto R 
holds an ap пб position, but though already 
cultivated to a v large extent, it is stated that 
its growth might bs extended almost indefinitely if 
it were not for the old question of excessive taxation, 
The soil is of the very best for Tobacco growing, and 
quite equal to the best of the Сабап plantations, 
is some carelessness in the 
process of cu obacco requires no great 
labour in its cultivation, but considerable care and 
attention, especially as regards insect pests, and 
when the leaf is stripped, selected pen dried, In all 
ie 
these matters the ns Porto Rico is exceed- 
ingly careless, and this it is that *. s0 good 
final product being o as in Havana. Still, a 
eonsiderable quantity of Porto Rico cigars find their 
we States, Spain, France, and Eagland ; but 
the Tobacco trade is one which ou 
— і it deg proper facilities we: the 
Gove Large quantities of Tobacco-leat are 
а d Я Gata, - des ey up 3 into the 
world-famed Hav On subject of 
fruits, it is a thats Monk D" abil Banana, 
c, аге grown everywhere, and are much used as 
fruit in the country, the export trade is not parting 
nor yet of the Pine-apple, which grows to perfection 
en any care is taken of it. It is remarkable that 
i is not exported in larger quantities 
than is actually the case, seeing that it is s fruit that 
could easily be shipped and carried the shor 
distance to the United States, where it can com атлады 
good pri Cocoa-nut grows in 8 
quantities all around the coasts of the island, — to 
a considerable distance inland, but little or no use 
is made of it, and exports are few and far between. 
The contents of the green nut are much used as a 
аак ар the Жом bulk of the жор, which has 
continu is allowed to go to waste. The 
2 covered E3 м green, and golden fruit, i is 
— to bes . — 
cr 
Ф 
parts for miles and d The а т ог Bitter 
uo moral, sni by f 3 
ех the greater се goes to 
absolute waste. 
DE L'HORTICUL- 
reached the letters Ner. 
As an illustration of the care taken to bring this 
ы» work up date, we may instance the 
article Musa, which embodies the information 
recently published i in a monographs of Baxer and 
: De DNA 
papse has 
* HANDBOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON."— 
Dr, Твімех'ѕ most useful handbook makes steady 
progress, The plates by which it is illustrated now 
pone seventy-five. Barleria Arnottiana, with 
large tubular blue A бен, would be & desirable intro- 
stoves, The text of the third volume 
the | æ. The terse 
ready comparison 
diffase dissertations 
difficulty if at all, 
SAMO, з gel of 
a Lar chet 
Neha. emp 
w 
i wert e 
THE 
GARDENERS' 
CEDAR ОҒ GOA.—A mong the various conjectures 
as to the origin of this Cupreseus, is one that it may 
be of Chinese — and that it was taken from 
Macao to G obtain information on this point, 
we applie г. Тотснкв, of t ong- Kong 
Botanie Garden, who kindly informs us that from 
о 
TeMPERATE-HOUSE АТ КЕМ. — Th 
erection of the south wing of the Temperate- house 
was sanctioned by the — last year. Tae care 
f the detailed working 
as goon as the e у estimate had been 
passed by the House o mons, prevented the 
ork being immediately rum in han e con- 
Bulletin). c 19, 
and bulldilg is being pushed on with all possible 
ed. It is hoped that the new wing will b 
completed by the middie of next year. 
Lt FENCE AT Kew.—The permission of the 
UEEN has been obtained for the removal of the 
Aree кка the public from the Palace 
w, and since then, according to the Septem- 
ew Bulletin, the Firat Commissioner of Her 
Majesty'a Works and Pablic Buildings has authorised 
the removal of the wire fence which since 1814 has 
separ&ted the Botanic Garden from the Arboretum, 
As for many years there x тед по ака i 
the administration of the ares ich 
equally devoted to botanical parpores, d hend had 
al object; апа the 
di bə passed had 
da which now frequent the 
Royal Gardens in fine weather, 
Pay oF Kew EMPLOYÉS. rid ani Ое 
for September 
of the First Commissioner of — Мајенбу Works 
and Pablic Becr Treasury has agreed to 
ei e minimum wage w being raised to 218, In 
addition to this, bot bons and gardeners receive 
gratuitous medical attendance during sickneas, sick- 
pay according to length of service, and extra pay 
when employed on Sundays. Oa the other hand, 
retirement at 60 is compulsory, and pensions in the 
shape of “compassionate allowances” are abolished 
by the Superannuation Act, 1887, which only allows а 
ч z be interesting to trace the gr 
s at Kew since 1841, when it became a national 
establishment : 
Year, | Labourers Gardeners. 
| f. do tee 
1841 12 12 
1847 . i 14 с 
1 | 15 14 
из c. 11 16 
1885 * s 18 
1889 .. Ps 18—20 
BAS V... Ж 19—20 A 
3 se 21 | 21 
IRISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—A Report 
has been published containing abstracts from Irish 
Agricultural — showing the acreage under 
crops, and the rand description of live stock 
in each county and province (in "x 5); also — 
from the superintendents of enumeration upon t 
state of their —— in — ir коөн districts at the 
time of the collection of eee for the returns. 
hese statistics, published by authority of the 
A should о, „ё 0 use to agricul- 
ts, both present and futu 
APPLE.—A re ee sends us 
а ripe Apple 
with а small flower growing out from its side, О? 
course, there is кча, very extraordinary in the 
CHRONICLE. 
ГОстовев 12, 1895, 
presence of a flower in that situation, as b, 2 | 
о account for tha hs 1 
production of the flower from a fruit es d [| 
“THE Pia. —The first book of a series to be 
published under the above name has appeared, ani . 
ia devoted to “ Rational Pig-keeping toes 
The author is Mr. W. J. Marnen, and his practical 
and well-arranged treatise d every attention 
from those interested i in this subject. The publisher — 
is Mr. Witt Mas, Ferm, Til, ad Ri 
Office, 1, xm Street, Strand, W.C. "1 
N Inder  Kewznsis,—We || 
announce the му of the fourth and 13 7 
this monumental work. The gratitude and sympathy 
of all workers in ae uds ied ie 
B. D. Jackson, Sir an 
connected with “this useful publication Кет! 
a ow 
of referring to 
our et and will demand early notice, viz, 
Henstow's Origin of Plant-strucua, 
. 
а 
AE 
been published. Mr, Burs 
second edition of his tinal Orchid сінія! 
Guide - book. Ж 
d PUBLICATIONS.— Ten New pu 1 
and their Insect Visitors, by CLARENCE 1 
(Published at Boston and New York, by „ 
x & С 
Anteots and Insecticides, a practical manual cot- 
cerning noxious insects and the methods of) 
venting their injuries, by CLARENCE M. Weep, | 
York: Овлхск Jupp Co, London 2 0 
Ruerr ЕТ Cin, Editeurs, 106, Войо A 
Germain.) — Handbook of West American Cone- bearith, 
„ G. Lzwwow, Oakland, Cal, third (om 
edition. ; 
Book No NOTICE 
QaLICHE 
Das TROCHNEN UND xc Fi NAT 
BLuMEN Gräser, Erc. ВУ. s ne = 
Hein; published by B. Е. Voigt, | 
тд edition), 
e, in € van of 163 pages, full 
tiene in the Germ: age for ca 
drying nuts, mate 2 ears of corn, ^" 
sania Fern- fronds, flowers, grasses, reeds, Т 
& x — materials. E 
с., and the preparation of n rti — 
any useful commercial pu maf 
rise ОГ е ашай Er 
— he part of бен, 
have mastered these 
the carefally-guarded manner in whic ee И 
the trade are kept by them, Previo "a 
ance of the firat edition of илана mc 
we learn from the preface, no bie ol. 
tent instructions, and the fate E kne | 
