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green grass for months, and comes to the flower-banished home a new 

 man — but only in time to become the doctor's patient again. 



It is quite sickening to read the miserable twaddle in the daily pa- 

 pers, whenever matters connected with horticulture, — especially sanitary 

 matters affected by horticulture or the kindred sciences, come before 

 them. Here are papers that pride themself on their accuracy; papers 

 that have a rule to discharge at once any reporter whose statement of 

 every day facts are found in the slightest degree inaccurate; and yet can 

 scarcely ever offer a paragraph bearing on horticulture that does not 

 teem with error, or even absolute nonsense. 



Is the fault with horticulturists themselves? Do they make it a point 

 to keep abreast with the world in the march of general intelligence? 



I will not answer these questions now. I only know that horticul- 

 ture affords scope for a greater breadth of human knowledge than any 

 other persuit, — and if the true horticulturists would take pride in diffus- 

 ing the varied knowledge they ought to possess, not even the crude ipse 

 dixit of "the physicians" could lead to the perpetration of the enormities 

 I have briefly outlined. — Popular Gardening. 



DO VARIETIES RUN OUT? 



PETER HENDERSON, JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, N. J. 



If, by the question is meant that varieties of any kind under general 

 cultivation run out, I say. No. That, under unfavorable conditions, varie- 

 ties 2^X0. apparently less vigorous.than when first originated from seed is cer- 

 tain. But it is a run of unfavorable conditions only that can bring about 

 such results; such as over propagation from weak cuttings or slips, planted 

 in poor soil, or in temperature unsuited to their nature, (such as growing 

 hardy plants in tropical latitudes), or in doing anything inimical to the 



H. K. — ?9. 



