An exchange says : " The best boxwood is brought from the shores of the Black Sea in Turkey, inferior varieties being obtained in Persia, in Spain and Portugal, and in the Balearic Isles. It is said that in 1815 box-trees to the value of £10,000 ($50,000) were cut down at Box Hill, in Surrey, England; but the tree is of so very slow growth that it is seldom raised in that country except for ornament." This date, however, must be an error, for the editor of the Gardeners' Monthly, when on a long botanical tour, made his bed of the branches and slept soundly all night under the trees in this Box forest in 1845. The weird appearance of this forest will ever be remembered. The trees ranged from the thickness of one's wrist to that of the leg, and were from ten to twenty feet high. There was not a blade of grass, but only some shade-loving orchids to be seen, so dense was the shade. Even at midday the close evergreen foliage left only twilight beneath. The poets sometimes sing of the " deep cathedral shade of the forest," but the bare column-like stems of these box-trees with the brown, flowerless ground, illustrated the poet's fancy better than we remember ever seeing anywhere since.