. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. except for the value of Cinchonaor other valuable trees actually destroyed in the courseof the work. 5. No land shall be cleared of forest within a dis-tance of two chains from any spring or from the sourceor feeder of any stream, nor shall any land be cleared offorest within three chains of th« centre of any prominent nishcd from the office of the Surveyor-General, but anyexpenses that may be incurred for surveying or runningthe lines at the request of the grantee will be borne bythe grantee. If the


. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. except for the value of Cinchonaor other valuable trees actually destroyed in the courseof the work. 5. No land shall be cleared of forest within a dis-tance of two chains from any spring or from the sourceor feeder of any stream, nor shall any land be cleared offorest within three chains of th« centre of any prominent nishcd from the office of the Surveyor-General, but anyexpenses that may be incurred for surveying or runningthe lines at the request of the grantee will be borne bythe grantee. If the lines be run by the grantee a copyof the plan of the same should be sent to the office ofDirector of Roads and Surveyor-General for examination,9, Intending applicants for the grant of land onthese conditions should address themselves to the Directorof Roads, by whom all requisite information will beaftbrded. THE LAKE AT HECKFIELD. It is not always that water—such a needful adjunctto landscape efifect—is happily placed as we findit here, especially as seen from the front of the man-. hear less complaint of Government intrusion into thedomain of commercial cultivators. Directions for1 raising and cultivating Cinchonas have already beenIpublished and circulated by the Director of Planta-I lions, Mr. D. Morris. The following are the con-Iditions on which the Government will for the presentmake such grants :— r. The grantee shall pay to the Government beforehe enters into possession of the land as purchase-moneyfor the concession to be made to him the sum of £ ,being his bid at public auction at the upset rate of 2s. anacre on the estimated acreage. 2. The Government, while not requiring that a cer-tain fixed amount of land be planted year by year, willlook for immediate steps being taken to establish thecultivation of Cinchona upon the land after the purchase-money has been paid. The grantee must, however,undertake that at the end of five years from the date ofpayment, he


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