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Biantlws deltoides rubra and D. gigantea are two plants 

 admirably adapted for rock-work, or, indeed, for any dry sunny 

 places. I hope this brief notice of these very useful plants may be 

 the means of promoting their more extended cultivation in the 

 lady's garden. 



THE " SELBY " FRUIT AND ELOWER GATHERER. 



ESSRS. Dick Eadclyffe and Co., High Holborn, have 

 recently introduced to public notice these useful and 

 ingeniously constructed fruit and flower gatherers. 

 Their shape and general appearance will be readily seen 

 by the accompanying woodcut ; therefore nothing need 

 he said upon that point. Attached to the cutting blade is a strong 



spring, which retains by a firm grip whatever may happen to have been 

 severed from the tree, whether it be a bunch of grapes or a sprig 

 of flowers, until laid in the basket held in the other hand. They 

 are strong and well-finished, and the small size will carry a weight 

 of three or four pounds, and the large size nearly double that. They 

 are also .made with long handles, forgathering fruit or flowers which 

 cannot be reached without a ladder. For the latter purpose they 

 are doubly valuable; for apart from the labour in bringing a ladder 

 to the desired spot, the trees are frequently not strong enough to 

 support it without injury. 



The Death of Mr. Robert Thomson, of Chiswick. — It is a painful duty 

 which compels us to announce the death of this veteran horticulturist, who has 

 laboured so long and so earnestly in the advancement of the science of which he was 

 so worthy a representative. Few men have laboured with such disinterestedness, or 

 exhibited such thorough perseverance in the prosecution of their labours, as the 

 author of the "Gardener's Assistant," or who will b£ held in higher estimation by 

 the whole of the gardening community. 



