JANUARY. 

 17. 



See the pure Lamb of God, 



Made sin though sinless, led 

 To death, that God in place of man might die : 



Under his Father's rod 



He meekly bow'd his head. 

 And drank to its dregs the cup of misery. 



18. 

 Now throned in power on high, 

 The Lord of Righteousness, 

 He guides the Gospel-car to speed his word. 

 Till in his majesty 

 He comes his work to bless. 

 And earth shall bloom the Garden of the Lord. 



Iota. 



SEEDLING FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



I AM quite an enthusiast for raising seedling florists' flowers, and 

 would strongly urge both nurserymen and amateurs to devote some 

 portion at least of their time and space to this interesting process ; 

 for there yet remains much to he done. On the advantages thereof, 

 and the interest excited thereby, I need not dwell ; but I would 

 briefly advert to one source of disappointment to which the raiser 

 of seedlings is subjected, viz. a disposition in seedlings to degenerate 

 the second year. I have frequently seen seedling-blooms of Dahlias, 

 Pansies, and Calceolarias, particularly the latter, very promising; 

 indeed, possessing all the essential properties of a good flow^er, the 

 second year so to degenerate as not at all to resemble the same 

 thing. As to whether this is a common or casual occurrence, and 

 to what extent generally, I should like to have the opinion of ex- 

 tensive seedling raisers. That the circumstance is not rare I am 

 fiiUy persuaded, by the fact of having bought varieties the second 

 year, which were highly praised when seedlings, not only by the 

 raiser but by respectable journals, and which have turned out the 

 veriest rubbish, not worthy of either name or place in any collec- 

 tion ; such as no nurseryman who valued his reputation would 

 have dared to ofi^er to the public, had the seedling-blooms been of no 

 better character than those produced the succeeding year. If seed- 

 ling flowers generally, then, are so apt to degenerate, surely this 

 argues in favour of nurserymen blooming seedling plants another 

 year before sending them out, and perhaps at very high prices } 

 Whitby, Dec, 12, 1849. Zephyrus. 



[All seedlings should be exhibited and seen as two-year old plants. 

 Parties who buy new varieties from descriptions given in gardening 

 periodicals on flowers sent for opinion are very likely to be misled ; 

 and this makes us anxious that our " Note-book" should be found a 

 register of all the really fine things that have appeared during the 

 ( rent season. — Ed.] 



