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NATURE NOTES 
who were at our last Conversazione will remember the interest- 
ing series of rush-light holders then exhibited, which are de- 
scribed in the twenty-sixth letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington 
in White’s “ Selborne.” By the courtesy of Messrs. Longmans 
we are able to reproduce two of Miss Jekyll’s illustrations of 
these objects. Students of Gilbert White will also be familiar 
with his description, in the fourth letter to Pennant, of the 
Wall wnii Gakneteu Joints. 
(From “ Old West .Surrey.” By kind permission of Messrs. Longmans.) 
embellishment of walls with chips of ironstone stuck into the 
mortar of their joints. White seems to have known neither 
name nor reason for this practice, which is general in Surrey 
and other Greensand districts, but Miss Jekyll says that it is 
known as “ garoting ” or “ garneting ” the joints, and it seems 
to be designed to check the action of frost on the mortar. This 
also we are similarly enabled to illustrate from her work, in 
which, no doubt, readers will find for themselves other material 
for the annotation of our classic. 
