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China, collected by the eminent Russian travellers Potanin, Przewals' ky 
and Regel, are particularly valuable. 
New Forage plant.—-The plant described in tha following letter 
might prove useful in Australia, South Africa, and the cooler parts of 
India. 
United States Department d Gg. 
DEAR Mer August 1, 
RWARD you to-day, enclosed in separate rapper small 
package of seed of the Flo rida beggar weed Denne lin tor Zapesblk 
ics an d grows best on sandy soils containing lime. On cultivated 
lands it grows often 8 to 10 feet high. "The haulms, though rather 
woody, are eaten by cattle and ne T ofall kinds. Beggar weed 
are 
value in the warmer countrie 
Respectfully, 
The Director, F, Lamson-ScRIBNER 
Royal Gardens, Kew. grostologist. 
Lemon and Lime trees as hedge plants.—In the Annual Report of 
the Depnrimeut of Agriculture of reinaan for the year 1894-95, 
pp. 55-56, it is recommended to utilize the lemon trce (Citru us Medica, 
var. Limonum) as a hedgeplant. For some years the lime tree (Citrus 
Medica, var. acida) has “been so used in the West Ines with great 
success. only drawback sae in the use of the latter has been 
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the occasional dying out of the trees in patches, due EUNT to the 
uncongenial. nature of the soil. The same thing also occurs in old 
established yew hedges in this country. Apart from this cireu mstance, 
lemon and lime trees are capable of forming very serviceable hedges in 
tropical and sub-tropical countries. The paragraph menticned is as 
follows :— 
*'The cutting up of large estates into small farms anne tee m 
large amount of fencing that was not before required. Itisg considerable 
item in the expense of starting operations. The posts ae generally to 
be found on the land or near by, but the time is fast coming when they 
will have to be brought from a distance. Everyone is cutting down, 
and nobody planting timber, with ihe resultant annihilation of the timber. 
To meet the difficulty, hedge planting will have to be resorted to, for 
which purposes no plant in the ek is so mE e. adapted as the 
common lemon. If, where fences are being erected, or ong existing 
fences, a few seeds were dropped in at about 18 inches apart, a hedge 
would in about four years be obtained, that no man or beast could 
penetrate. 'There is a row growing here, not quite five years old, vo 
te i d seven inches in diameter. Plants of course can 
used instead of seeds. The raising of quickthorn for hedges in the 
old Sire itd is a business, and a similar business could be made of 
raising lemons here. A lemon hedge six or seven years old would 
s reqnire something in the way of a locomotive to punch through it." 
. BUCHANAN. 
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