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land close to the village, and a new public road was set out and 

 made to connect Sutton with the road to Southorpe and 

 Stamford. 



A number of schemes under Part I. of the Commons 

 Act, 1899, for the regulation and management of commons 

 with a view to their conservation as open spaces, were approved, 

 and two schemes under the Metropolitan Commons Acts 

 relating respectively to Farnborough Commons in the county 

 of Kent, and to Norman's or No Man's Land at East 

 Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex, were also approved 

 and certified by the Board in 1903. 



The collection of orchids cultivated at the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, is essentially different from any, at least in this 



country, in the possession of a private 

 List of Orchids collector, and perhaps its only serious rival 

 Cultivated at Kew. is that of the Royal Botanic Gardens 



Glasnevin. Its main object is botanical, 

 and to represent the family Orchidce in as comprehensive a 

 way as possible. The catalogue of the collection, of which 

 a second edition has just been published (price is.), gives a 

 list of the varieties which are of botanical interest, and is 

 prefaced by an introduction which sketches briefly the progress 

 which has been made in the art of growing orchids under 

 artificial conditions at Kew since their introduction into this 

 country. 



The success which has attended the work of the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society and of the co-operative associations con- 

 nected with it have been referred to in 



Th n w f grriCU i tUPal previous numbers of this Journal:" The 

 Organisation ? , ■ . / 



Society. Board have now received a copy of the 



third annual report of this society for 



the year ending December 31st, 1903, from which it appears 



* Journal, Vol. IX., June, 1902, p. 33. Vol. IX., December, 1902, p. 324. 

 The article in the Journal * June, 1902, entitled " Farmers' Co-operative Societies,'* 

 has been reprinted as a leaflet (No. 97). 



