. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. sed the woodlands and forests ofDulnanside hundreds of times, and I can assure his ideal or apocryphal plantation is not to be Mr. Smith incidentally refers to and depre-cates my system or practice of thinning. Well,I will at the proper time refer again to thatsubject, and go into details with Mr. Smith ifhe wishes it, but it may in the meantime be leftin abeyance. Mr. Smith also demurs to the low prices of wood,and says that while I get dil. per foot for Fir, he, orsome else gets is. id. pe
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. sed the woodlands and forests ofDulnanside hundreds of times, and I can assure his ideal or apocryphal plantation is not to be Mr. Smith incidentally refers to and depre-cates my system or practice of thinning. Well,I will at the proper time refer again to thatsubject, and go into details with Mr. Smith ifhe wishes it, but it may in the meantime be leftin abeyance. Mr. Smith also demurs to the low prices of wood,and says that while I get dil. per foot for Fir, he, orsome else gets is. id. per foot. Now on this head Ihave respectfully to ask Mr. Smith who is paying orreceiving is. 2ii. per cubic foot for wood of trees con-taining only 7 cubic feet of timber, and not over fiftyyears old ? I know of no such market, and may addI never did. The wood of such trees is too soft andyoung to command such a price, and also of toosmall size. Mr. Smith again reflects seriously upon me for notgetting higher prices for the wood sold, and mydelence under that charge is, that I invariably get. FlC. 54. —IlCEA GLEIINII : liRANCH AND CONE NAT. SIZE; SHOOT, DETACHED LEAVES, SCALES, AND SEEDS, MAGN. TWICE; TRANSVERSE SECTION OF LEAF HIGHLY MAGN. (sEE P. 300.) near the sea. Annually the stem of this Palm iscovered up wiih steam-coal 15 to 25 feet high, themoisture of which causes it to produce large quan-tities of fibrous roots at varying heights, which hangin tangled masses when the coals are removed. Beinguncovered sometimes for months, and exposed to adry atmosphere, they of course lose all vitality, onlyhowever to be renewed by a succeeding batch whenthe stem is again surrounded with coal, the growthand appearance of the tree in the meantime seem-ingly not altered in the least ; which I think may beaccounted for from the fact that the roots produced inthe coals are simply auxiliaries, the main feederswhich form the principal support to the plant beingin the natural soil of the sh
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