TEE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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The Illustrations. 



The larger illustration represents the 

 Jubilee Palm Hoiise or Conservatory. 

 The funds necessary, nearly £2,000, were 

 contributed by the Durban community, 

 and were collected by Mr. M. S. Evans, 

 M.L.A., and Mr. T. W. Edmunds. The 

 picture was taken on the occasion of His 



Excellency the late Governor, Sir Walter 

 Hely-Hutchinson, declaring the building 

 open to the public. The second illustra- 

 tion gives a glimpse of the inside of the 

 building. Ferns, caladiums, etc., which 

 find difficulty in growing outside, thrive 

 luxuriantly in the moist, tropical warmth 

 of the house. 



INTERIOR, JUBILEE PALM HOUSE 



Photo by Editor. 



The Mapstone Oat, 



THE Government Entomologist has been 

 furnished with the following interim 

 reports upon the Mapstone rust-resisting 

 oat, from some of those to whom seed was 

 supplied earlj? in the year. 



The reports are published for general 

 information, and Mr. Fuller will be glad 

 to receive reports from other farmers who 

 have had this oat for trial. Farmers 

 noticing rust in the oat are particularly 

 requested to submit samples for examin- 

 ation, and, in furnishing reports, com- 

 parisons made between this oat and others 

 will be most valuable and very acceptable. 



" I have to report for your inform- 

 ation that all the ' Mapstone Oats ' planted 

 here have gone off with rust." — (Walter 

 Pepwoith, Bolesworth, 29th April, 1901). 



" They (the Mapstone Oats) showed up 

 well, until a foot high, when signs of 

 rust appeared, and, to save some hay, I 

 cut them down. Otherwise they would 

 have — I think — gone like the Algerian I 

 put in, as in some parts of the small crop 

 it was badly rusted."— (R. H. Pepworth, 

 Zwaartkop Valley, 10th July, 1901). 



" I planted the oats the third week in 

 April ; I planted them in a long strip 



