SELBORNIA N A 
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74. Fir Tree. — Round the naked stem of a small Scotch fir in Southacre 
Wood, about twelve feet from the ground, there is a compact dense growth, 
seven feet high, four feet broad, and three feet thick. Some distance higher up 
the trunk the ordinary branches are to be seen. Can this abnormal growth be 
caused by insect, fungoid, or other injury? 
Edmund Thos. Daubeny. 
SELBORN IAN A. 
Hindhead. — We are pleased to hear that, at the request of 
a recent deputation, the Postmaster-General has arranged that 
the telephone poles are not to be erected over Hindhead, but 
along the railway. 
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. — We 
would specially direct attention to a leaflet in this number asking 
assistance in carrying on the important work of this Club in the 
study of bird-migration. All the proceeds of the sale of this 
Bulletin, which was noticed in our last issue, are to be devoted 
to this object. 
How to Exterminate Orchids. — Our attention has been 
directed to an advertisement in The Garden offering Bee Orchids 
from co. Clare at 5s. a dozen, carriage free. If this is not 
stopped it will be the turn of Kent and Surrey next, and probably 
not one of those supplied will survive for a year, whilst in no 
district is this species sufficiently abundant to stand much of 
a tax upon its numbers. 
Surrey Landscapes. — All lovers of Surrey landscape who 
can appreciate a first-rate technique in water-colour should pay 
a visit to the exhibition of the works of Mr. Sutton Palmer, now 
open at the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square. From the 
summit of Hindhead to Frensham Pond, from the red roofs 
of Godaiming to the Wey at Ripley, and the Thames at 
Richmond, and from the oak coppices of the Weald, carpeted 
with primroses and bluebells, to the fir-trees and heath of the 
Bagshot area, the many beauties of the county are charmingly 
portrayed. 
