August, 1908.] 



Miscellaneous. 



Ule's expedition. Notizbl. Berlin, 

 III. 1901, p. 129. 



Para rubber in the Straits Settle- 

 ments. Straits Bull. I. p. 193. 

 " T.A." Feb. 1902, p. 524. 



Growth of Para rubber trees. Str. 

 Bull. I. 1902. 



Arden's Report. IncJ. Gard. 7. 2. 1903, 

 p. 125. 



Notes on Arden's Report. Str. Bull. 



II. 1903, p. 42. 

 Planting in Ceylon and the F.M.S. 



Ind. World, April 1904, p. 225. 

 L'Hevea brasiliensis : Sa cultu e et 



son exploitation dans le Sud- 



Annam. Bull. Ec. de 1' Indoch. 8. 



p. 687, 



Collet. L'Hevea asiatique. Bruxelles 

 1904. 



Extra-floral nectaries of Hevea. 



Parkin. Ann. Bot- Agr. 1904. 

 Two Para Heveas. ' ' T. A." Aug. 1904. 



p. 126. 



Sur les formes d'Hevea dites " blan- 

 che" et "noire." Huber. Jouru. 

 d'Agr. trop. Dec. 1905, p. 383. 



The nature of the Para rubber tree, 

 &c. Wright. "T.A." Sept. 1906, 

 p. 214. 



Ueber Hevea brasiliensis in Singa- 

 pore. Schlechter. Tropenpfl. 1907, 

 p. 133, 



L Hevea discolor de la region de 

 Manaos. Journ. d'Agr. trop. 1907, 

 p. 69. 



Anon-rubber-yielding Hevea. "T.A." 



June 1907, p. 344. 

 Abnormalities in the stem of Hevea. 



Ridley. Str. Bull. June 1907, p. 



157. 



Early fruiting of Para rubber do. 

 p. 176. 



The vitality of Hevea. "T.A." Aug. 



1907, p. 37. 

 Burrs or nodules on Hevea stems. 



do- p. 60. 

 The Hevea tree. Wickham. -'T.A." 



Nov. 1907, p. 314. 

 Hevea discolor Mull. — Arg. als Lief- 



erant des Kautschuks vom Rio 



Negro. Tropenfl. Nov. 1907, p. 



788. 



Variation and selection in Hevea' 

 Journ d'Agr. trop. July 1907, p. 

 195, reviewed by Lock in "T-A." 

 Apr. 1908, p. 299. 



Big rubber trees in the Botanic 

 Gardens. Str- Bull. July 1908, p. 

 253. 



Wright. Para Rubber, 3rd. ed, 1908. 



£600 PER ACRE IN A FRENCH 

 GARDEN. 



The Great Possibilities of the Soil. 



" It is difficult to find a parallel in agri- 

 culture or horticulture to the astonish- 

 ing growth of interest in the system of 

 French gardening since an experimental 

 garden in Berkshire was visited by the 

 tenant of the Daily Mail farm in March," 

 says Mr. W. Beach Thomas in the Daily 

 Mail. " It is not only that people of all 

 sorts and conditions, including large 

 landowners, leading seedsmen, and every 

 variety of person who owns a garden 

 have written and made inquiries about 

 intensive cultivation ; but a considerable 

 proportion have begun to make pur- 

 chases with a view to starting French 

 gardens this autumn, and several French 

 gardeners are being engaged. 



The Interest in French Gardening. 



''The reformatory schools, to the 

 number of two hundered and more, have 

 already adopted the system. Oxford- 

 shire and some other county councils are 

 beginning to purchase a tew frames and 

 bell glasses for purposes of instruction, 

 and companies have been started in 

 horticultural centres in England for 

 providing requisites. I know of cases 

 where men have taken land and gone to 

 live in the country in order to promote 

 the caxise of intensive cultivation and 

 test the capability of English soil to 

 supply English wants. Here and there 

 agricultural labourers have managed to 

 buy bell glasses and frames, under the 

 advice of horticultural schools and 

 colleges. 



The Need op a Text-Book. 



"During the last three months hun- 

 dreds of people have written to the 

 Daily Mail asking for precise instruc- 

 tion, and every post has made manifest 

 the fact that an authentic and simple 

 text-book giving a diary of work in the 

 garden was urgently needed if these 

 nundreds of people were to profit by the 

 system. French gardening flourished in 

 England, to some extent and in one form, 

 a hundred and fifty years ago, and the 

 French learnt a good deal from our 

 gardeners, who, they considered, could 

 grow certain vegetables — cauliflowers 

 especially — much better than they could. 

 But since those early days no text-book 

 of any authority has been written, and, 

 indeed, no book making the due allow- 

 ances for English climate as compared 

 with French could have been written 

 before a complete garden had been 

 tested in England. 



