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7 HE GARDENING WORLD. 
January 10, 1903. 
Current Notes on Sundry Subjects. 
A Fifty Mile Avenue. 
It is said that an avenue of Cryptomeria (C. japonic a, we 
presume) extends from Namanda to Nikko, in Japan. Every 
tree is straight and symmetrical, 130 ft, to 150 ft. in height, 
and the trunk 12 ft, to 15 ft. in girth. 
Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire. 
Mr. J. F. Robinson has prepared a flora of the above district, 
in which he records 1,035 species, including 137 aliens, casuals, 
etc., and twenty incognita. 
Birds in the Garden. 
Mr. Granville Sharp, M.A., has written an entertaining book 
on the birds to be found in most gardens. By means of 
photographic apparatus and a few contrivances for bringing 
the birds within range of the camera, he lias succeeded in 
getting numerous interesting pictures of the birds about which 
he writes. His object was to get the birds in their natural 
attitudes, and his pictures show how varied and impressive 
those attitudes often are. 
Stobo Castle Estate for Military Purposes. 
We are going to be a great military centre here, the Govern¬ 
ment having bought the estate of Stobo Castle, besides a 
great tract of land from the Duke of Buccleuch, about 28,000 
acres in all of kopjes, donga.s, spruits and fonteins in the Slitrig 
Yal-ley. It has to be a second Aldershot, I believe. After 
their South African experience, I should think it will be an 
ideal place for manoeuvring large bodies of troops, as well 
as giving them a range of many miles for land artillery practice. 
— B. 
Universal Exposition, 
St. Louis, U.S.A., 1904. 
The Government of the United States of America are pre¬ 
paring to open the third great international exhibition held 
within their borders. On this occasion St, Louis is to be the 
site of the exhibition, and it is intended to celebrate the pur¬ 
chase of the territory of Louisiana from France in 1803. The 
scheme, aims and objects of this celebration are set forth in an 
illustrated pamphlet, in a way that recalls the World’s Fair 
at Chicago in 1893. All branches of the commerce, arts, 
literature, education and whole field of the social economy of 
the United States are to be represented at this immense 
gathering. The British Government have formally accepted 
the invitation to take part in the Universal Exposition, and 
the offices of the Exposition for Great Britain and Ireland are 
at Sanctuary House, Totlrill Street, Westminster, London, 
S.V. A complete department has been given to agriculture, 
and the building for the indoor portion of the exhibit is one 
of the largest structures on the grounds. Its cost is estimated 
at £166,500, and the structure is to be 1,600 ft, long, and 
600 ft, wide. Farm equipment of all sorts will be included, 
machinery of all sorts, whether driven by animals, wind, water, 
steam or electricity. Tobacco will form a sub-section, while 
the progress of agriculture, literature of the fields, the staff 
of life, confectionery, relishes, etc., will all be represented. 
The home of horticulture will cost £41,500, and a portion of 
this will be devoted to the building of a conservatory for the 
r eception of exotic and other decorative and useful plants, in¬ 
cluding those of the greatest size. The frontage is arranged 
for 800 ft., and the depth will be 400 ft. The aim is to make 
a complete display of the gardening world in fruit, flowers and 
foliage. The exhibit is open for appliances and methods of 
pomology, viticulture, floriculture and arboriculture, in addi¬ 
tion to tools of every description for gardeners and nurserymen, 
including greenhouses and garden architecture generally 
Choice fruits, trees, shrubs, plants, seeds and young trees will 
be provided for. Forestry will be located in this building. 
Chrysanthemum 
M. Leguernay. 
A coloured figure of this incurved Japanese variety appears 
in “ Revue de rHorticulture Beige ” for December, which de¬ 
scribes the colour as of a beautiful lively yellow, tinted with 
green. The flower is large, veiy double, and the stems rigid. 
The florets are more or less curled, interlaced with one another, 
and neat in form. The foliage is of a dark green, and the plant 
is said to possess all the qualities indispensable to a good 
variety. 
The American Mayflower. 
The above name, as well as the Trailing Arbutus, have bee.i 
applied to Epigaea repens, which those who have seen consider 
an interesting plant for garden culture. Few, however, succeed 
in cultivating it satisfactorily, and Mr. John Dearness, of 
London, suggests the probable reason in " The Canad.an Horti¬ 
culturist." He says the result of his experiments indicates that 
it cannot be successfully cultivated ih every garden. He has 
been trying to introduce it to his own garden, and also into 
the woods around London (Canada), but the failure to establish 
it successfully leads him to suspect that it has entered into a 
partnership with some species of mycorrhiza, like other 
members of the Heather family, and cannot live alone. He 
thinks it not improbable that some'gardens possess conditions 
favourable to it, and also that transplanting it from its native 
wilds in the woods with a good ball of soil would also bring the 
micorrhiza with it, and thus enable it to succeed. 
The Flora of 
New South Wales. 
In a chapter on the geographical characteristics of the 
country, the " Year Book ” of New South Wales gives the fol¬ 
lowing account of the flora:—-“Botanists have long acknow¬ 
ledged that the vegetation of New South Wales is remarkable 
for its immense variety, and the dissimilarity of a large number 
of species from those of other countries. There are in New South 
Wales about 3,500 species of flowering plants and Ferns, those 
of the whole of Australia, amounting to over 9,000 as far as 
known at present. Over 1,200 species of native plants have 
been observed in the county of Cumberland alone, and others 
remain to be recorded. Many are of exceeding beauty, but, 
although found in the other States, have not become acclima¬ 
tised in Europe, although not a few plants, despite their highly 
sensitive organisms, are capable of resisting great extremes of 
heat and cold. Some of the noble Eucalyptys trees, with their 
peculiar vertically placed leaves, reach to the height of over 
300 ft., with a girth of from 12 ft, to 20 ft. They form the 
principal vegetation of Australia; those with smooth barks are 
known as Gum trees, and others as iron barks, stringy barks, 
peppermints, mahogany, etc. There are about 300 different 
species of Acacias, or Wattles, many of which possess fragrant 
or beautiful blossoms. Nearly every kind of British fruit tree 
and flowering shrub or plant thrives in New South Wales if 
suitable localities be selected, while the Orange and Vine are 
found attaining a luxuriance not surpassed in Southern Europe. 
Immense quantities of beautiful Ferns of various species, the 
Maidenhair, Bracken, and Tree Ferns being most abundant, are 
found in all parts of the country. Of 1,613 specimens found 
and classified by Mr. J. H. Maiden, director of the Botanic 
Gardens, Sydney, some years ago, he records that their uses 
were as follows:—Timbers, 630; human food, etc., 212; 
forage, 250; drugs, 123 ; gums, resins, etc,, 100 ; oils (volatile, 
essential, fixed, or expressed), 57 ; perfumes, 14 ; dyes, 35 ; 
tans, 87 ; fibres, 67 ; not classified, 38. This very incomplete 
list impels regret that such varied resources should have been 
neglected, while it inspires hope for the future. 
