Oct. 27.—The peeling of thin layers of bark: from the trunks of Plane, trees on our ithe ways tives the (recs a eharneteristic many branches and trucks are a ing to do with lame (rees and feniie work. In-fe aneath the bark of Tike they do on so many others (or wre exposed to the cold winds of ple tree (Platanus acerifoliad is Plane and it is said to be a hybrid North Aimerican Buttonwood (Platayus occidentalls). Its rather surprising: how well the plane tree stands pollarding and hard peuninyt. They may be pollarded to mere stumps and. instead of losing ther vitality, they send forth new branches the followings year sometimes ten feet in length. The star-like hairs on young. leaves are tached by the wind in early Spring and Moat in the air in larve quantities. We are afraid that many people suiter by. the "activities of these hairs: they cause inflammation of the mucous membranes of the eyes and nose; but it is not for long and we can stand a little inconvenience for the sake of enjoying the pleasant shade afforded by the large leaves uring the Summer. We have a moan today: Dut we are afraid that the people who cause Us this mental suffering never read these notes, 40 therefore what we say will have little effect, Aecordinyt to Casvells, an Airgun "is aa instru ment for firing projectiles by the force of eom= pressed air." There is tio mention of the Struments being used for fung at birds resting fon braviches of tyees: Dut this 4s What we se the country quite often, We would not go much if the birds were fired at while in tight, it would be more sportsmanlike und we doubt if the people we have seen using the iquns could hit them: they seem to have rear iicutty in stingy the. birds whi stationary. We have fred their proper plaeo—at a. target—and the sport, but! we are positive tha any pawer to make regulations, Should enforce, would be one prohibiting the in close proximity to, Oct, 20—~The single French Marigold isa perfect picture these days and it is making up for the lelinquenees of its cousin, the African Mavixold, which disappointed us this year" by rowing 0 untidy and tall, We were admiring Several groups of this plant in a garden yester= day, they were beautiful Two of the groups were quite large and under the shade of trees: this hay not affected the plants much beyond retarding the flowering period slightly. The plants were not quite so forward os those seen In the open; but they are making a good display and there were thousands of buds walthng to open. In the ower beds, the displays were Wonderful: the beds were a mass of brownish= blotched orange-yellow flowers and they. ro-minded uy of two borders of the same plant We saw in a garden on Hungjao Road some time ago, French marigolds were not the only plans flower, as'n matter of fact, the garden look fed exceedingly gay? it ts really" astonishing how quickly some of our gardens recover from adverse weather conditions. Orange cosmos was blooming merrily together with scarte feannas In one section of the garden. In another Section, there wore thousands of red salvia la bloom and, peeping out from beneath a mass of foliage, were violet Mowers galore. What a lightful' perfume these flowers have! The foliage also appears to. be scented slightly. Chrysanthemums wore in bloom in another section of the. gard fe thought that it was a food chanco to make "rst of the season" notes regarding, varieties, There were also many mid-season and late varieties, but these will be referred to at a later date. Amongst the tall-rowing standard varieties that we saw bloom, we particularly, liked a coloured one and another wit blooms. There way a variety in bronze-colour that also attracted our attention: It was dimeult to pick just a few out of the many varieties teen, The dwarf-growing. making the best display of all and in this roup, we liked a variety with white flowers, Slightly tinted pink, best of all: the petals were tubular. A close second favourite was pure white with an incurved contre, while a lovely pink variety was also very attractive, We were rather surprised to find a single Chrysanthemum in flower: itis still-a tile early for these wt.
S1—-Local climatic conditions are very they change 0 quickly and. so often only a week axe, we were shivering out in the country, while his alernoon we were enjoying, We were proceeding alani when quite close to a place famous for ity "Ham and Eggs" we noticed numerous parked ears. Curiosity got the better of us and. we found ourselves entering the deal School' yates. That ever-blooming, perennial—Mr, Loh—yrected us with perhaps war ing their pipes, were probably discussing the 230 Face. tne "bookies" present: perhaps they were not allowed to operate: It was probably ood thing, for Ww re dificult to pick, all runners. were to win. The race Track Was roped off and St George's, St. drow's and St Patrick's crosses and many Unio Sacks added a touch of Weeping, Willows formed to the eye while several Autumn a hedge of Hibiscus formed mmureatior, between some of the cor the track Several herbaceous the terrace, Toukod ready to
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