larch 25, 1905. 
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'roposed. Garden Suburb. 
At the northern end of Hampstead Heath 
tn area of 2M) acres of land is offered for 
wilding purposes by the Eton College trus¬ 
ses as we mentioned recently. The most 
important feature of this proposed scheme is 
that the land will be laid out on a uniformly 
designed plan, like that other new enterprise, 
The Garden City. The best situated por¬ 
tions of the land will be let to wealthy per¬ 
sons who can afford to pay a large sum for 
it, and have fine houses and expensive 
gardens. Some of the other roads and 
streets will be laid out to suit all classes of 
people able to pay from £40 to £150 a year 
for their house and garden. Still another 
group will include those people who can only 
pay 7s. 6d. a week rent. The object is to 
preserve the natural beauty of the place as 
far as possible with distant views from the 
various streets or houses, and have all classes 
of the community living practically in one 
orderly township. 
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Big Trees of Victoria. 
Some of the species of Eucalyptus, includ¬ 
ing E. amygdalinus, hold the same position 
in Australia as the species of Sequoia hold in 
California. Mr. N. J. Caire lias been collect¬ 
ing data, as to the size, height, and localities 
of the big trees known to him, and published 
the account iu the “ Victorian Naturalist ” 
in January last. Big Ben possessed a trunk 
57 ft. in girth, but was destroyed by" a bush 
fire iu 1902. Another named Billy Barlow 
had a similar girth of trunk, but was cut 
down for the sake of the Paris Exhibition. 
Both of these were E. amygdalinus, and wer•> 
supposed to be more than one thousand years 
old. Like other trees of antiquity, these 
giants were in a state of senile decay, with 
hollow stems or broken tops. 
The Real Irish Shamrock. 
Regularly as St. Patrick's Day comes 
round, the question is once more raised as to 
what is the real Irish Shamrock. To make 
matters plain, one of our daily contem¬ 
poraries illustrates what it considers the real 
article, and some of the others which are 
made to do duty as substitutes. As far as our 
experience and observation are concerned, if 
the plant is a Trefoil, it may be made to do 
duty for the Shamrock. One illustration 
shows the yellow-flowered Irish Shamrock, 
and another shows what is considered the 
English yellow Clover, but we fail to see how 
they can be distinguished by such names. 
The creeping Clover is also mentioned, and a 
fourth plant is named the Black Mcdick. 
On Friday morning, the 17th inst., Trifolium 
repens, variously known as the white, the 
Dutch, and the creeping Clover, was selling 
freely on the London streets. This has taken 
place for many years past. On the other 
hand, we are aware that T. dubium, better 
known as T. minus, has been grown in large 
quantities about Cork and sent to various 
parts of the world as the real Irish Sham¬ 
rock. Some people say the real article 
grows only in Ireland, but anyone who knows 
the British Trefoils can find this one on 
almost any of the commons in tin; -uburL 
of London. The Black Mcdick (Medic.mo 
lupulina) lias been sent us from Ireland, and 
various other parties have received it from 
different places in the Emerald Isle. We 
have grown all of the plants to the flowering 
stage, and therefore proved them. The 
above three were certainly found to be most 
commonly obtainable as the Shamrock, but 
we have been unable to determine how the 
Irish yellow-flowered Shamrock differs from 
the English yellow Clover. There are at 
least three decidedly yellow-flowered species 
of Clover in Britain, but T. dubium is the 
most common. 
Horticultural College, Swanley. 
From the report of last year we glean 
that sixty-three students joined the class at 
the opening of the year. Eight diplomas 
were awarded, twelve certificates, and three 
scholarships. In the examination held by 
the Board of Education, six students gained 
first class for elementary and nine for 
advanced botany, while nineteen took first- 
class in rural economy and agricultural 
science. Two students gained the King's 
prize in agriculture and botany; In the 
R.H.S. examinations fourteen students 
gained first-class, and thirteen second-class 
certificates. Nineteen students passed the 
third-class experts' examination of the 
British Bee-Keepers’ Association, and two 
second class. A number of students obtained 
posts during the year, two of them as head 
gardeners. Eight others obtained positions 
as under-gardeners, ten obtained appoint¬ 
ments in schools and institutions, while one 
lady student obtained a post as jobbing gar¬ 
dener. A syllabus of work also sets out the 
courses of instruction to be given during the 
year, together with information relating to 
fees, scholarships, books, syllabus of prac¬ 
tical and theoretical verb. both iu elemen¬ 
tary and advanced stages of morphology and 
physiology of plants. Elementary and 
advanced horticultural science and rural 
economy include entomology, book-keeping, 
poultry-keeping, dairy work, fruit preserv¬ 
ing, flower arrangements, etc. 
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Watching Plants Grow. 
At a recent meeting of the Linnean 
Society, Mrs. Scott showed a series of plant 
picture® by means of the cinematograph. By 
taking photographs every quarter of an hour 
for a fortnight or more and then displaying 
them by means of the cinematograph, she 
showed how it was possible to see buds 
gradually open, a flower closing at night and 
reopening in the morning, the parts of the 
flower also appeared as if growing, including 
the lengthening of the stamens, this appear¬ 
ing to take place quite naturally in a minute 
or two as represented by the cinematograph. 
A Fuchsia and a Crocus were used for the 
purpose of illustration. 
