ГАЛ 
NovEMBER 27, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
GYZROJVZCLE. 
683 
| EM had heard of 500 bushels being grown on one 
2, чо the plan pes adopted was to plant the trees 
(which are more frequently half-stan MÀ 22 feet by 
16} feet, with боне rries or Ситта 
— the s Pears, = 
| Plumssuit сег planting best. Lar, een 
ode it, especially if the знн 
railways, an acre of Gooseberries 
and one 
cking and sale. In West 
y on the ragstone) Filberts and Cob-nuts were 
e soil exactly suited them, 
ndantly. e Cob-nut was, 
g the place of the old F ilbert, 
nek ai productive and profitable. 
ger, but not so well flav € a the 
Filbert; ‘but gets much quicker to beari He ha 
seen some trees at Donee hol. Meli us, which 
m. m a Mew e 100 was made of one 
aca 
range 
' These plantation were generally intended to re- 
. mainfor a few years only, With a view to permanent 
pe the former plan was the best, as the pr Po fruit 
raised while the under fruit was bear 
and Currants were generally placed 6 feet spat 
po р 1210 plants to the acre, "The cost 
all kinds of plantation it was most essential to 
n who thoroughly understood p g, as 
produce e or less dependent 
upon the intelligence of the operator. Asa the 
pruning. 
ing v the nurseries, and before they 
e 
= the upper hand the expense of getting rid of 
. hem became e enormous, As the fruit-picking season 
comes on labour gets е and there is great diffi 
Ja seing work done. In West Kent, on the 
: light and shingle, both се and Straw- 
berries were cultivated to m mmense extent, and 
ay ty b but this was it he had 
E A frui 
which 
to 
It was often the custom to cut and thin out the 
inside of old A 
estowe 1 
appeared to giv cn Moly à and 
old неш, if they. had any good wood 
however, always necessary to manure with dung, for 
fide Жер with corn or oilcake answers much the 
same pur 
A vote Pt one to Mr. Webb was proposed by 
Mr. John Clutton, and seconded by Mr. Rushwort ; 
ant а short петте ensued, in aih m Hogg, 
J. R. Bon rey, 
Sedgwick, Mr F hide ‘Rivers, ‘and the Phiten ed 
part. 
Forestry. 
arterly es devoted 
Its title is 
THE first number of a qu 
to supply the place of Notes 
srvi and its principles decidedly liberal 
** The full and unfettered discus- 
principles on which the editors intend to conduct 
their journal, and we heartily wish them success in 
their efforts. Most of the forest officers of India must 
have received their first notions of forestry on Euro- 
pean estates, and when transferred to India find that 
much of w ае ave lear t be unlearnt, or at 
least e t itions under 
which their Ep ur has to de carried out. Forest 
law forest cons gain, a subjec 
of cardinal importance, differing in each Presidency— 
mention 
us to кон ow that 
n on the part of the 
editors (Messrs. B. H. iien Pows ll and Dr. W. 
Schlich) of any lack of subject-matter. A journal 
which «ед as this does, a public want, soon gains 
the confidence of the pu ublic, and cage of matter is a 
mi ever happens. The 
i me press on the 
Schlich, the n characteristic 
ops Roxbur 
of view 
es 
picing all u 
urning the leaves, 
branches, eT тег ster, | Ry) raising crops of grain 
reserved tree: a giv 
by the f the manure so obtain he practice 
is said to rapidly diminish the fertility of the land 
Mr. Pengelly raises үт, old questi 
se of pruning 
long үле т era ees we are glad to see that, except 
the hands of tho- 
Б. 
e of our con- 
We Ys probably avail ourselves of so 
cordially 
temporary's articles, and, in the ойто 
wish him success. 
Hotices of Rooks, 
The Min ; being a Natural System of 
—€— Pp mi га Alfred Smee, F.R.S. Bell 
& Sons 
It will not be vies of us that we should analyse, 
a book so much out of the course 
the the time. 
student а асана phenomena and a surgeon 
eminence, not wonderful that he should co-relate 
mental aiani functions d the brai in and of the 
nerves—wi el ly we find 
inv 
lectrical phenomena. Man, to Mr. Smee, is 
m ee ye which is in the 
(Van ee е е 
is useful as 
organs of sensation, the other in the muscular 
л 
< 
stem, 
There is nothing particularly eit ^1 this notion 
which, combate and others, 
is reasoning we have fou 
to which they cannot assent, 
pages muc t will be new em, and Tex of 
what is old piel before them in a new light and in 
new combinations. 
—— The "November number of the etr 
Magazine penas figures of ^on Rivi 
n 
the plant ly descri morph ophallus 
Rivieri amd gured by us Neder “= name in our 
volume for о. It is certainly distinct 
enough to warrant its being placed in a separate sec- 
tion, i£ n nus. it is, as y of o 
readers now know, one of the most curious and strik- 
ing hardy or half. hardy pla The next plate i 
devoted to a plant of considerable medicinal interest, 
hich 
of much inb. D is 
d T 
an , and is rare in cultivation, though 
жу Сагїса recepte mp is an 
elega species. th elongate 
ovoid M ow fi A possessing far superior ene as 
n edible fruit to the common Papaw. · qoem um 
am num is one of t ost elegant of Dendrobes, 
the present yea 
— The a of States s^ = Teaching of the 
Science and Technology of Pi Life by Louis 
e d Acclimatisation 
— — objec’ Let 
was when МЕ ча had 
w they are mines “ot 
ult 
other things which a n i 
if so, can hat n be imported, but which we 
can produce we are taught how, and wh 
the wealth, as 
also "oui foy Ande contribute to 
mmerce of the vili, ot 
to the importance in the comm 
our adopted country.” 
raiment an Old Story (Virtue & won po С S. 
Hall n: is in verse, sings of be bight 
ful evil rot dici adt oi the misery as 
the cause, r, Hall has done wisely to р-н 
with him in his some of our foremost artists, By 
enlisting the services of art, e niim —— ra 
pleasures and innocent means of r 
orking classes, a may probably be Tow than 
by Bands of Where circumstances allow, a 
little bit of rit to till, a few m to plant, 
ost p 
n this directión, 
ere is no excuse for ignorance of the ele- 
ts of botany on the score of de -— books. 
The uit addition to ne by Professor 
Bentley, e simply Botany, and mE 
Society f M Christian 
appears fa: have no 
demeni cim LN 
t 
to gardeners and 
siet be жей 2 other works by those who odi 
gain more than a superficial acq uaintance with the 
aem — 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. —TheQ er;an 
Soar aE d v » n direct: „ей. 
t ma he J one capi 
eid dn А vins ournal of Education. Brook- 
lyn, N.Y. The Can Book. By Robert L. Wal: 
lace. (The Country мее and F s 
ment, and Working of Ferrets, (Same P 
