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grow. The ground about the vine should be dug about eighteen 



inches deep and well manured, but the roo^s of the vine must not be 

 disturbed. 



The vines should have a good shaking of water about a week after 

 pruning them ; after that they should be kept well supplied with water. 

 Vines must be given all the sun p< ssible as the least shade is most 



injurious to them. 



MILDEW ON PEAS. 



When at Rusham Park. Oxfordshire, at the end of last summer. I 

 was much struck with some lines of Xe Plus Ultra Peas, which ap- 

 peared to be entirely unaffected by mildew at a season of the year when 

 this variety is often much subject to it. I found that Mr. Wingrove, 

 the gardener, immediately upon the mildew putting in an anpearance, 

 dusted the soil about the roots and the lower part of the foliage with 

 soot, with the result that the spread of the mildew was at once checked. 

 While the Peas were manured by the soot being placed upon the soil, 

 Mr. Wingrove stated he alwavs found soDt to be an unfailing remedv 

 against the mildew. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



FORESTRY. 



The Story of Hawaii's Departed Forests, Verdure axd Rains. 



Reprinted from "The Planters' Monthly'' Honolulu. 



On the Mahukona side of Hawaii, one can travel for miles near the 

 sea, through evidences of comparatively recent human habitation, and 

 find no human inhabitant. Innumerable enclosures that stand side by 

 side like village lots, are said to have contained not long since, each a 

 h:>use and family. History tells of* a dense population here. But it 

 has melted away, as though a deluge had swept them and their belong- 

 ings from the earth. Nothing remains but the stone fences ; and even 

 these are fas: being levelled, and their constituent rocks scattered over 

 the desolate waste. 



And the wonder is. — not why people went, nor where they went, but 

 why they ever came to build their homes in this barren place. 



To look at this stony desert, it seems incredible that not so very 

 many years ago. there were trees growing here, and meadow land, and 

 wellinj springs of water and vines and flowers and fruits. Not a spot 

 of bloom and not a stump of forest tree remains — nothing but the brown 

 earth ard the rocks. A mile up the hillside, there is grass brown at 

 first, and by degrtes changing into green ; and miles away on the dis- 

 tant hills, a suspicion, perhaps, of foliage. But here there remains but 

 the shaddow of the substance that has disappeared. Men come and 

 go at their own sweet will as the world well knows. But, what vol- 

 canic disaster, what whirling tempest, fell upon the forest and the mea- 

 dow life, and robbed the fruitful earth of its mantle of green ? 



The destruction began so insidiously, it was hardly noticed at first. 

 Heids began to multiply upon the hills. Cattle and goats browsed 

 upon the tender leaves of young plants in the forest glades As old 

 trees died, there were none to grow up in their places. Fire some- 

 times followed in the cattle's track. The water from the springs in 

 the forest depths, was sucked up by the bare and thirsty soil, miles be- 



