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TREES BY ROAD SIDEA

Suggestions Of Director Of Kew.

The Roads Improvements Bill prosented by Mr. Gosling, Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons recent confers powers on the Ministry and on county councils for the plauting of tross or shrubs along roads. This is part of a scheme to boautify English roads,

It is, however dificult to select suitable trees, especially for in- dustrial areas where the air is polluted with smoko. On this point Dr. Arthur Hill, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kow, recently made some useful Bug gestions. His view is that "the subject of street planting in English towns has not received

FIGHT WITH PIRATES;

Man Who Took Rabbits

to Australia. Bixty-two jolly old watermen watermen's wives, and water mon's widows, are spending the ovoning of their days in a pleasant retreat in Penge, Kent.

Catching Fest by Searchlight.

One of the grost troubles of Borbia is the malaria epidemic, and even in the neighbourhood of Belgrade there are favourable breeding grounds for the malarla mosquito. The heavy spring the plains The retreat is described as the floods have made Royal Asylum for Watermon and facing the town more swampy Lightermon, but it is known than usual, and those whoso locally by the more friendly nams blood pleases the mosquito palato of the Watermon's Home. For are constant in their lemont- more than 100 years the little ations: houses with a big central hall for social gatherings in the middle of thom, havo stood round three sides of a big squaro garden filled with trees and flowers.

All-ths old man who live in the little three roomed. houers, who

WHITEAWAY'S much attention in the past, plant their vegetable gardens,

Now an ingenious locksmith of the town has docidod that some. thing more drastis than the labours of the Anti-malaria Com- mission should be undertaken, and he has devised a wonderful appartus for the mass capture of the pest, which might perhaps

and municipal authorities have and play howls on the groom, interest the Hongkong authori bcon content in the main, bogan life at the water-side. They los. The first evidence Belgrado to plant sngli troes as tho took part in the bustling coromony bad of his exporimonts was the unloading appearance in Kalemegdan, tho plano, common limes, and horse of loading and

FURNISHING DEPARTMENT chestnut, which, in many cases, the great ships which used to lie little park that overlooks the

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are quito unsuited for the pur- out in the river, but which are plains and the mooting of the poso,"

It was The common limo he counow, docked, so depriving the rivers (Sava and Dauubo), of a aidors to be a dirty tree in the waterman of much of his old-time powerful searchlight.

thought the police had adopted a lato summor and autumn, owing importance. to-tho-oxulution of honeydew All the old watermon. wore now moans of raking in vagranty while the horse-chestnut and the taken a trip down the Thamos to bodded to the park it was foully mosquito trap, and any plano need constant lopping, and Margate the other day. Whontho in time become an eyesore. they roturnod to Penge they who approached the apparatus For the planting of trees in talked over tho changes which saw the inventor remove a vossel streets that are already, built up, have taken place on the river, from tho inalde and show it to bo Dr. Hill suggests tho Manna ash, and came to the conclusion that full of a cushion-like mass of often called the flowering ash," the river was not what it used to mosquitoes. that is beautiful in both early be. summor and autumn, the Siberian Mr. William Jackson, who has crub, which is covered with flow-boon master of the Watermen's rs in the spring, and with small Home for 11 years and who is scarlet fruit in, the autumn and over 80 years old, recently told winter. The mountain ash, the a Pross representative that in the white boam, the laburnum, the days when he and his brother double white cherry, and oral-watermon were in their prime apple, are also boautiful troos, but ships would be waiting in lines to there is, of course, a danger that be unloaded, they may he cut by small boys for tho flowers,

the Along the main roads Whoatly olm is useful, for the branches do not break, as in the the case of the common atin. The rod horap chestuut is a fine trea, and the liver brch makes bonatiful avenue. The Norway maple has beautiful foliago in the autuan, while the bright green limo rotains leaves of a glossy groon colour throughout the

The master was born near the Minorios. in a little street then called Sparrow-corner, and at 14 was apprenticed to an uncle who lived at Stepney and who was ono of a family of waterman.

He only stayed on the riverside for a month or two and thon sailed away as an approntico on a barque. bound for India, and whorover else she could pick up

"trado." a

FOUGHT CHINESE PIRATES.

summor. The red oak and the The boy's first voyage lasted

+

Export officials who wore pro- sent at the trials have decided, it appoare, that the apparatus is loo costly for use as a means of ox- termination, but that it will prove specimen- very useful as cutcher. A strong soarellight attracts the insects into the coui- cal light-projector, at the apex of which is a small holo. In the interior pumps and fans produco a strong currout of air into the interior, and the mosquitoes aro sucked insido.

DESERTER'S POLITE LETTER. Invalided out of his regiment this year with a ponsion, William Frederick Cannon wrote to the Hastinge polico asking if he was still wanted by the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, from which ho deserted in 1921 or had the mattor Tree of Heaven require a good four years.

He arrived in India"blown over"? This lottor led to deal of space, but Gro

vory just after the Indian Mutiny, Gannon's appearanco in Hastings ornamental on a broad road.

and saw mutineers blown from police-court charged with being a the guns. The crow of the Con- deserter. He was romanded to diet stowed away six of the crow await an escort. of one of the "John" Company's ' hosts, who, in those days. served under almost Navy conditions.

Dr. Hill also suggested two rather uncommon troos: the tulip troa and the maidonhair troo. It is to be hoped, says a Home paper, that if the Ministor of Transport's Bill passus into law, that bath his officials and those of tho county councils to whom power will in granted for the planting of roadside troes, will take care to consult such skilled botanists as Dr. Hill for advice on the matter.

RECORD NAME,

Lion In All Its Variations.. The parristense of one Christian

The stowaways earned thoir keep later on, for while in tho China Seas the Conflict was at tacked by pirates, and only muc- cooded in boating them off with the help of the six extra mon. The craw wore armed with cut- lasses and muskots, while the ammuniton of the Chinose includ ud stink pots, which they throw down on the dock of the English. ship froin their mainmast.

The stink pots seem to have

v

name throughout many genera-been predecessors of gas sholls,

old sailor has tions is most conspiciously dis-and the played in the Tollemacho family of mind of one

vivid memory of the presence

third

of the crow

who picked one up and throw it overboard.

Later Mr. Jackson sailed for Australia in the La Hogue. Ho helped to take out the first rabbits to be introduced there, but does not expect any Australian to bo grateful to him for doing so!

The first. second and baronote were all Lionois and when the last named married the daughter and heiress of the first Earl of Dyrart, the third, fourth and fifth Earls all bore the same foroname. But it was reserved fora collateral descendant to ring the changes on the name Lionel

Nowadays, as master, he oc- with the greatest frequency and ingenuity-Lyulpl, Leo, Leone cupios with his wife a neat little and Lyonulph for the mates and lodge which guards the water- Lyona, Lyonesso, Lyonella and mon's garden, and sees, that all Tyanella for the females. The the old men and the noatly boo- eldest son of this intropid namenoted old women are safely pack- chco or was given perhaps the away in their pretty little. most extraordinary string of homes at night:

namos

any ever bestowed on

person in modern times, duly rowell Orma' Novill Dysart Plan- corded in the pages of Burke's tagonot." Royalties have some- timos half a dozon namoo but Poorage as follows.

Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor they pale into insignificance ba- Egbort Lyonai Toodmag Hugh side this profuso, variegated and Erchenwyno Saxon Ess Chom fantastic conglomeration.

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