The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nterval. Logs were then drawn andpiled round the trees and fired, and they were burntdown generally in about forty-eight hours. Thelargest tree was about 6 feet through. When down My assistant and 1 had to turn out last Tliursday toassist in putting one out, the thermometer stood at105° in tiie shade, but the heat of the sun was for-gotten in the heat of tlie lire. We managed to put itout or rather stop it after an hours hard work, andreturned as nearly baked us live men can be. ,V. St. LtJCi.\. A bot
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nterval. Logs were then drawn andpiled round the trees and fired, and they were burntdown generally in about forty-eight hours. Thelargest tree was about 6 feet through. When down My assistant and 1 had to turn out last Tliursday toassist in putting one out, the thermometer stood at105° in tiie shade, but the heat of the sun was for-gotten in the heat of tlie lire. We managed to put itout or rather stop it after an hours hard work, andreturned as nearly baked us live men can be. ,V. St. LtJCi.\. A botanical station was, says Nature, establishedearly last year at St, Lucia on the most unpreten- Already the demand for Cocoa, Cotree, and Nutmegjilants is so great that additional land will have tobe acquired for the extension of the garden. TuiNfDAD. TIieZ?;/7/,^«(Mo. fi) oftiieKoyal Hotanic Gardensis devoted to an account of the method of culture ofTobacco, by Mr. J. C. Kspin, who was for manyyears a planter and manufacturer in Cuba The pamphlet is eminently practical, and. FlQ. 37.—THE FLOWER-GARDEN AT THORPE-PERROW. (sEE P. 204.) they were sawn Into lengths and split with wedgesinto fencing posts. The tops of the trees are cut up,piled into large heaps and fired. Last night andto-night we have had huge bonfires blazing all around,I hastened my departure from Sydney on purpose tobe present at this burning off, as I feared for thesafety of my cabin. For two days we have had thefront of the house draped with wet blankets, but thedanger is now past. Terrible bush fires have ragedin this district and all over the country this of my neighbours have lost fencing or out-buildings, but I have so far escaped very luckily. tious footing. A committee appointed to supervisethe work of the curator, Mr. John Gray, reportsthat, considering the difficulties incidental to thestarting of such an undertaking, the peculiar natureof the ground, and the limited funds a
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