FzsRUARY 15, 1919. ] 
| rd Влсот, told him on a visit Bagot’s 
Park, Staffordshire, famous for its Oak Askec 
why he did not relieve his relative penurious 
Г i aks were 
esti e £50,000—Lord Bacor re- 
plie The Bacors are not timber merchants." 
ga Iahogany ! ow many w > 
are worked und thy name? Prof. Dix 
enumerates* no fewer th 5 kinds of То qe 
which take the name donc Swietenia 
Mahagoni and 5. macrophyila not commercially 
in vain. At the present time it is doubtful 
whether any Mahogany comes from p of 
e regions in which these species grow the 
former is found in Cuba an t ningo, the 
latter Hondurs Tabasco, an Columbia 
P n the basis his scopic 
TO IXON, 0 
examination, 
—all red or 
bres of нй 1ауегв 
ed TM timbers in w 
cross obliga. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
(The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for 
the opinions expressed by. correspondents.) 
dude Spies бы ы pie es Bos 
that some (horticulturally) MU HMM varieties 
sub-species ar Itiva These are almost 
E no ашкан d arn 
an S 
Fg 2. 
[Ж 
t m the ground, and about f ea 
| Every year ail the shoots are wreathed wi 
‚ splendid fmit along their whole деле, da 
ihe flow e best of which are 2 inches or 
| more in а are of that gor каен теа со olou 
Which I have never ot: 
the flowering plant. The fruits, which a 
E some, are ees freely produced, but 1 strip 
ost 8, them whilst they are still young, in 
cd Meta t undue exhaustion of t 
Bu is Rose is n 
| hit o bes ethod. Can [mà = 
Correspondents say whether it grows reel 
_ from ? I have tried it in several years, but 
with unsatisfactory results aks 
uw" in Horticulture. Ber page 247, Vot. 
E W. refers to the d ijo the 
З Woman gardener at Kew 23 yean s ago, re- 
e 
views her prog 
7 Tn his 
= the 
i 
а fairly 
* during the past fou 
t 
ever be serious ls men and boys 
аме day ere are various ге s 
15; in the first place, the so-called train- 
суд аы. шап ns horticultural эйе, ата 
practi ез much to be desi and 
ticall le arate др 
+ n 
Sei. Proc. Royal Dublin Society, XV., p. 481. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
establishments if the garden to be a success, 
but one finds that in many cases young women 
have been told by their doctors (very often after 
a serious breakdown in he gam ib other work) 
that gardening would B suitable occu- 
pation. One can rcely "Made the young 
women if this ap peals to them, but is it fair 
to the (moyen find that these young 
women (who are aiiis extremely enthusiastic 
Fro. 
and loud.in their pronounced love of кееш 
and other strenuous work), ате 
physically incapable, not only of trenching, but 
of any real or sustained effort, such as is con- 
ired 
stantly rig hy fa pen. male or female, 
employed i A Газды on stric = business lines ? 
Not per cent. о e women who start gar- 
very few 
dening will be found in it after 
ars’ 
a 
experience, and, personally, I have me 
30.—SWIETENIA MAHAGONI : 
who E 
the 
1 X 
cing suc 
wins were stri 
ү aj jority of women who have rushe 
Du 
100 indeni 
THE MAHOGANY TREE. 
Apple Edward Vil. (see рр. 21, 56).—1 have 
grown this Apple Ms fo several , and 
although several of your correspondents have 
praised it, I have failed to g d results from 
it. The fruit also cracks very badly en it 
tarts to swell. The subsoil of these gardens is a 
eavy ‚ and perhaps t fa with account 
Pateman, Node Gardens, Welwy 
