Itfarch 12, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
The Papaw in Queensland. 
This fruit has now been widely distributed 
ver tropical Queensland, where it is re¬ 
tarded as most agreeable and nutritious, 
die ripe fruit is eaten asi we eat Melons ; 
different people use either salt or sugar for 
improving the flavour of the fruit. When 
■eaten raw it must be perfectly mature, as 
the green fruit contains a strongly-marked 
acrid principle. The sweetness of its pulpy 
resinous juice clings to the tongue and re¬ 
mains for some hours. Excellent preserves 
are also made of the ripe fruit, which 
is boiled down in sugar and candied like 
citron. The natives use the fruit in tarts 
combined with some acid fruit. It is also 
stewed and served on the table. The green 
fiuits are also made into' plain, and spiced 
pickles. Before ripening, another prepara¬ 
tion is to peel and slice the fruit and macerate 
it in cold' water, changing - the latter fre¬ 
quently during the course of isonie hours. 
These slices are then 1 put into boiling water, 
boiled briskly and served as a vegetable. 
The seeds are eaten as a delicacy, having 
something the character of Watercress or 
other pungent member of the Mustard 
family. Macerated in vinegar, they arei 
served as ai condiment. The fiuits and 
leaves are also utilised in a. great variety of 
other ways for some useful purpose, and our 
readers may remember that when meat isi 
hung up in a Papaw bush it will become] 
quite tender and easily digested. 
Jubilee of the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society. 
The jubilee meeting of the above society 
was held in the hall of the Y.M.C.A., It, 
South Andrew Street, Edinburgh, on the 
16th ult. The report of the council re¬ 
ferred to* a. proposed conference that was to 
have been held at this meeting, hut it had 
been found convenient- to postpone it, and it 
was recommended that the conference be 
held in July in connection, with the forestry 
exhibition in the showyard of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society. The society Las 
now a membership of 1,011. Tire chairman, 
Mr. W. Steuart, of Murthly, moved a proposi¬ 
tion for the establishment of a forest area 
in Scotland. It was the opinion of the mem¬ 
bers of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 
Society that the Board of Agriculture should 
now take steps to give effect to the recom¬ 
mendation of the Departmental Committee 
on Forestry, as far as regards Scot¬ 
land, by providing an estate to serve as a 
State forest demonstration area. He also 
moved for the] provision of example plots in 
connection with Edinburgh University. It 
was also the expressed opinion that the 
forestry education of this country would not 
adequately be provided for until this 
forest area is established and a- thoroughly- 
equipped forest school established in 
Scotland. It was also resolved to send 
copies of the resolution to the Woods 
and Forests and to various societies repre¬ 
sented at that meeting by delegates. During 
the past year the income of the society from 
all sources, exclusive of balances brought for¬ 
ward, was £411 5s. 3d., and the expenditure 
£264 14s. Id., leaving a balance of 
£146 11s. 2d. 
Protection of Wild Birds. 
The Society for the Protection] of Wild 
Birds held its annualmeeting on the 24th ult., 
under the presidency of Sir Edward Grey. 
This society about a, dozen years ago consisted 
of 300 or 400 women opposed to feather- 
wearing, bub it now issues its .annual report 
of fifty-two pages, and has a membership of 
some thousands, including a long list of titled 
iamd other people amongst its patrons. The 
intention is now to .have it incorporated by 
Royal Charter, with the addition of Royal bo 
its name. So far it has failed to make any 
impression upon that section of the ladies 
who wear birds’ feathers in their hats. Not¬ 
withstanding the society’s power and in¬ 
fluence, it seems unable .also to prevent the 
extermination of rare birds even in this 
countiy. They bewa.il that private collectors 
are mostly important persons, country mag¬ 
nates, -and even magistrates themselves. 
One is described as the good vicar and natu¬ 
ralist in Yorkshire, who shot ian angel in mis¬ 
take for one of the Duke >of Bedford’s flamin¬ 
goes escaped from Woburn Park. An ex¬ 
pressed opinion is that a society should be 
formed of landlords for the reintroduction of 
the species which have been lost in recent 
years, and the introduction and naturalisa¬ 
tion of such exotic species as may be thought 
desirable and suited to the conditions of this 
country. We are afraid, however, that all 
these strange birds would only meet their 
fata the first time they stirred beyond the 
grounds of their philanthropic owner. 
“ Flora and Sylva.’ 
The various numbers for the year 1903 
have now been bound up in a handsome 
cover, the hack and the corners consisting of 
white leather, while the rest is cloth ; in 
fact, it is like an ordinary half-calf binding 
done in white. The paper continues its in¬ 
formation concerning flowers and trees, both 
from an arboricultural point of view and that 
of sylviculture. Photographs and drawings 
of many fine trees from all parts of the world 
make their appearance in this publication 
from month to month. In the September 
number is a fine specimen of an old American 
Elm (Ulmus americana), which must have 
stood the force of many winter storms. The 
habit of the tree is somewhat similar to the 
Scotch or Mountain Elm in being more 
spreading and less upright than the English 
Elm. In the same number a fine picture .is 
given of Aconitum Fischeri, with its large 
pale blue flowers in simple terminal racemes. 
