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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10278, 2 November 1896, Page 5

In Garden and 'Forest, Carl Purdy lately wroto as . follows :— ' The eastern, side of Red Mountain, California, is covered with the most curious forest I have ever Been. A body of Cupressus McNabiana, about a halfmilo square, and scarcely mixed with any other tree, covers it completely. The- trees are only from ,12 to 20 feet high, as a rule ; but, like the miniature trees of the Japanese gardeners, they have all of the appearance pi great age. Old and gnarled, tough and twisted, covered with moss, and with limbs broken, they look like tho old forests of Cedar of Lebanon as they are pictured. A forest 109 feet high,- looked at through the.large end of a telescope, would give the same impression. ■ A fire has swept through one side, and the old trunks, standing black and naked, aid the deception. Only tho surrounding objects by which to aid tho sight keep one from being quite carried away by the decep- • tion. These trees, dwarfed so strangely by the arid soil and bleak olimato, are very old.' Agricultural show entries close to-morrow. , There were in the lock-up, last evening, three persona on charges of drunkenness, a man named Knox, for being drunk and disorderly. , v '" The annual excursion of Pitt-street Wes leyan Sunday-school' will..take pUce on Prince of Wales' Birthday, at Motulhi. / The names of the Trilby Art Competitors will be found in Saturday's issue. ' . A meeting of the master plumbers of Auckland and suburbs will be hold on Tuesday evening at the Foresters' Hall, Newton. ' The Women's Democratic Union will meet on Tuesday evening in ' tho Wesley Hall, when a paper will be read by Miss Boyd.' ' Smith audCaughey's hosiery and glove department is now well stocked with all the best makes, imported direct, 'and marked at our well-known low cash prices, -Advt, . : . #; ,: " :rjv;; '<■ ■ Attention Is drawn to. the sale by auction . on Friday next at Mr. Thome's land auction rooms, particularly to the farm at Waiko- i miti, which is for positive sale, and is a most i desirable farm for a working settler.' ;'';'•>'<' ': • Ex 8.8. Aotea, Smith . and Caughey have ■ opened 47 pieces of- beautiful sateen.''floral , cretonnes; also,' 80 pieces of double width ' reversible cretonnes, suitable for curtains. Advt.) ; ".,;."-'■ ' ~. A. > :■;•'. :: :