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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
A Nov. 9—Sale of D tch Bulbs, pa Stevens’ Rooms, 
; Three da ays Ppi e Sale at Hill Side 
Tvrspay,. Nov. urse: 
Š w S Sale of Esiablished ai Imported Orchids, 
i at Stevens’ Ro 
f Royal Jersey Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Hortic = a Society: Meeting of 
ruit a loral Committee, at TE AM. i 
Scientific ton mo at r P.M.; Fruit and 
Chrysanthemu 
Sale of Cam 
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 114 
ias. Pais Azaleas, &c., from 
Ghent, at Stevens’ Ki i e 
[ Clearance > = Cleall’s Nursery, 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
-at Mr. Cleall's gy ts 
ers 
; of of Sotentific Boo t Stevens’ Rooms. 
a SATCRDAY, Bov. REFA of pa ar recs). Shrubs, and Dutch 
L 
Fripay, Nov. 13 
Bulbs, vens’ Roc 
‘HE approach of the planting season again 
directs our attention to ONDITION 
ofthe TREES in HYDE PARK and KENSINGTON 
GARD The grand old trees in Hyde Park, 
and the beautiful woodland character of Ken- 
The 
increasing number of dead and dying trees to 
be seen almost everywhere 
Hundreds, =i thousands of the trees in Ken- 
 sington Garde 
ve. cut 
Koine with their axes were as busy 
a as in a great timber-yard. Being curious 
pas know if all a hed a ie died before being cut 
s peer at Newaite Nursery, Nuthursty Soe 
contiguous to the Round Pond a is seen 
a healthy tree, or scarcely one tree i ha 
will survive the next ten years, Sat” some 
wonderful improvement in their present condi- 
tion take place. The tops of the trees and the 
higher branches are mostly dead already. They 
forest of dead-topped trees, is anything but a 
pleasant one. There is no necessity to cite 
particular examples, they are sadly too general. 
n almost 
young healthy trees, apparently in the prime of 
life, wither up and die 
Such, therefore, bdi the true, if melancholy, 
facts of the case—z.e., more than one-half of the 
trees in Kensington Gardens are in a dead and 
dying condition—it becomes a question of the 
deepest moment to ascertain what the causes 
ever agency may be at work to effect such varied 
and widespread results, it must be extremely 
subtle and extremely powerful. We scarcely 
pause = sey the most commonly assigned 
London smoke. It is sufficiently 
evident pe this agency cannot be the main cause, 
the many examples of beautiful 
and healthy trees that exist in much closer 
proximity to London atmosphere—even in the 
City itself, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in St. James’ 
Park, and in Hyde Park. _Moreover, oe trees 
t dis- 
ed 
common aey E is to beleve ie’ a tree 
should never die ; yet we do force ourselves to 
believe this almost. Why should a tree die? 
existence is far greater than ours. ë 
big when we are little, and they increase so 
— that they seem little bigger when 
e old and lose sight of them ; and so it is. 
Ye t vookerëi and foresters, and all who grow 
timber for profit, know that at a particular time 
certain plantations are at maturity, and have to 
ensues. With such sub- 
deciduous trees the age of maturity cannot be 
said to be so well defined. Examples are 
sal of trees — Oaks, Elms, &c.—many 
rations old, and which are yet full of life 
Sree and many such exist in ens 
Gardens. The large Elm trees forming the 
avenue past Kensington Palace are far more 
healthy than the smaller ones in the plantation 
adjoining. It is worthy of note that the trees 
in the pleasure-grounds of the Royal Gar dens, 
Kew, which were probably planted about the 
same time as those at Kensington, are also 
dying out in much the same manner, Many 
large trees die there annually, and are removed 
regularly, so we do not observe the losses, or 
have the same deplorable spectacle before us as 
that exhibited in Kensington Gardens. 
The next point for consideration, and which 
governs to a great extent that of age, is no doubt 
exhaustion of the soil, or, in plain words, the 
ficient amount of 
w receive a su 
evidenced by the splendid specimens of trees 
produced, That it is almost -sufficient sillin in 
ie instances is. also quite patent. 
avenue trees are far healthier than those in ee: 
more thickly wooded portions, een why? 
Because the roots have more scope, a 
ad tolerably mpeg and in a sheltered 
hollow, the site of an old half-filled-up gravel- 
pit, the vigour and the jadura of the trees, 
some 30 or 40 feet high, could not be sur- 
passed. Here there is plenty of nourishment 
in the shape of soil and moisture for the roots, 
and the trees grow with vigour. All around 
this oasis the trees on the high ground present 
a miserable contrast. 
Where the ruin seems the greatest is on the 
higher grounds, in the thickly-wooded portions, 
and in other situations where moisture would be 
least abundant. The soil is ofitself good enough, 
but it is over- cropped, a and more moisture is 
required to sustain the vital powers of the trees, 
They are, in short, dying for want of fo 
ad m 
or more food been ileal, the trees w 
have pach lived longer, 
w, there can be little doubt, the trees 
are rra through sheer exhaustion of the soil 
andthroughage, the wonder being that they could 
have existed so long or attained such magnitude 
in such asandbank. At Kensington, however, 
the decay has been so marvellously rapid and 
severe that we are almost constrained to admit 
the influence of some more immediate and direct 
agency. TI 
average supply of the past few years, or nothing 
xtent. 
that could affect particular trees to any e 
&c., that have been 
in 
now, 
few years nee Even the wells in that neigh- 
bourhood have had to be piye so i ar has 
eland. Are similar 
loss d our beaut iful park trees i 
ce, as it seems to us ae the benefits 
detwi have been procu h ransom. 
We aa return to this oxic on another 
casio 
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E growth and EXPORTATION OF ORANGES 
ksa fi pion forms an important item p the 
of that 
orch 
commerce 
ntains about 420 Orange 
S, afie val annually Adai 33,300,000 
the value of £23,125. Two distinct 
one of 
quality are worth on 
per 
only 90 piastres F 
are constantly being planted, Sna ii creasing 
mge 
the of Orange culture, arsaa a sixth part of 
the total number of Oranges c 
med in Palestine ; the Seiaiiaiter 4 is export 
d Egypt, for the m 
Turkish 
Greek sailing vessels, which 
in the season, which is a month of November, 
cording to the Kentish Observer, a large 
kind of of ap or WILD PLUM, as to the coun 
around Halstead, and known locall: “* Skeggs,” 
growing in hedgerows 
very abund ant this. year. It is 
of Halstead alone 8000 
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