Country Life
ROADS AND BOTANLSTS.
What is the rural work most proper to October ? Undoubtedly (with the leave of sportsmen) planting trees ; and this October a new area has to be exploited. We may make the way-sides of the new great straight black roads, which have been growing during the year like Alice after the mushroom, blossom like the rose. Indeed, just like the rose, for some of the best trees to plant are technically among the rosaceae, a family that includes prunus and pyrus, medlar and thorn and spiraea. Committees have been sitting on the subject, and a number of suggestions have come from a number of botanists, including that most eminent authority, Mr. Claridge Druce. His proposal to plant the creeping thin-leaved cotoneaster on the cuttings is one of the best. Broom, which grows in an almost flat form in some railway cuttings, might be set alongside it. • * * * *
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