OCTOBER 16, 1875.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
485 
larity and the influx of cash, covered his D. in 
expens 
One dish indispensable for his breakfast, 
7 restaurant. 
as long as the , Was each- 
cr a a iy odia that the branch in b o 
. should be laid on his table every day before making 
the omelette, to prove that the blossoms were really 
fres t the wheel of fortune ed, and before 
the po an v he had to sell his rings, and break- 
fast off an omelette (when had o 
one) ungarnished 
and unflavoured by Peach blossoms, Æ. S. D. 
THE FORESTS OF BAVARIA, 
In Bavaria the whole surface occupied by the forests 
amounts to 2,603,264 hectares, These may, in round 
numbers, be divided into 36 per cent. held by the 
State, 13 percent. by the communes, 2 per cent. by the 
foundations, and 49 per cent. by private persons, 
SS ee 
State endeavours gradually to consolidate its woods 
and also to enlarge them, but certain small portions of 
Г ich require a disproportionate outlay for 
Management and inspection, and whi her 
Suited 
| m enclosed spaces = the woods of the State and 
Км кл ught. n the whole 
mene of late years in the сз 
at 
ts the i increase of the e population necessitates more 
E os 
aM р this Pacuv is somewhat smaller. 
are, it appears, no of making a correct 
The | 
for agriculture, are sold: whilst, on the other 
| 
oily to a small extent—in the woods of the State, 
communes, and foundations, in so far only as an un- 
avoidable exces caused by exceptional circumstances, 
such as damage done storms, snow, or insects is 
alanced in the following years by a diminished 
mount of felling, or, on the other hand, when 
deficit in one year’s estimates is made up for by sub- 
sequent extra cuttin the f private 
owners the yearly produce will probably become less 
and less, because, on a А 2 price of 
wood, fell beyond what the t year's growth 
they 
would ju justify, and the whole éxtent vi forests is thus 
im 
Ln Mar the British Chargé d'Affaires at 
Fic, fOI.—AGAVE VICTORLE REGINA, 
e timber is 
Е enumerates is Eo principal uses to | 
is put 
which th 
Oak (Quercus Robur and Q. pedunculata), is used 
or | building purposes, staves, and is largely exported 
or shipbuildin 
Beech (Fagus Sigg? rg branches are 
builders, 
ар ич By jo eger ones in 
lanks by join so for w idi: 
P Maple (Acer eed Plata and A. ‘A. platanoides), 
joiners, and es ly by in 
by carriage НИР 
на mak 
iT 
5 
joiners, as is also the "Ein Polat ‘campestris pU U. 
z ` Birch ы alba). —lts weak erint e Mur 
, and its stronger ones for ca. buildin 
Alder (Alnus = is used in Pen d serm A 
boards for cigar 
The timber of the ©“ T trees," which grow singly, 
ы not =, the larger sorts in the enclosed forests, 
purposes, 
! 
smaller quantities for pes rtain technical | though without pric 
Chestnut (Castanea vesca) is used for small pliant 
staves. 
Poplar (Po а for paper-making. 
Willow (S не de or basket-making. 
Pine trees 
the Silver! Fir s pectinata), 
Scotch Fir (Pinus Аы, the finest of the inner 
Larch (Pinus ce is in as bps pant but hitherto 
it has only grown wildly, a limited extent. 
istic carvings, 
which also ra Pine, and other different sorts E 
timber are us 
ease or decrease of the export of timber 
depends principally on the state of the market and on 
the competition of other countries, but, inasmuch as 
in many of the forests gir to private owners in 
—— the heavier and more valuable Miei 
mber is used up, soit isto beas 
that the export of this kind of —_ both as 
alue and quantity, gradually decreases. For the 
study of the panion- influences of. ts ts on the air 
and their t simie 
'he results of t tións have 
n a work — mi pou ЕЕ е 
lished іп 1 Aschaffenburg, 
rerom E i as a book of reference 
on this subject. 2. 
THE rd bread AND ITS 
tí CHAM/EMORUS, ж їп {һе a part of Eng- 
land (where they especia Пу do growe) Knotberries 
and Knoughtberries, is likewise A j^ the Brambles, 
es: it bringeth foorth sma 
weake branches of idet stems, of a fcote high ; 
