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occasion oue practical lesson. I have remarked that our young 

 birch trees and American willows, and other trees of slender habit, 

 were beat down, so that their heads were frozen to the ground. 

 Now, in a gap in the front of a rockery where I have my own prettj- 

 collection of Alpine plants, stands one slender-stemmed tree, which 

 I have always prized for its beauty. It is rather scarce, and the 

 name otitis Halimodendron argenteum, the Siberian salt tree. That 

 tree could not bend to the ground like the rest, for it was tied up 

 rather stiffly to a stout iron stake. Not being allowed to bend, it 

 broke, and the fine head it had was actually torn to pieces, the prin- 

 cipal branches breaking away at the point where they joined the 

 stem. If that tree had been without a stake, it would have been 

 unhurt ; but it was kept too rigid, and it is ruined. I went indoors 

 with a heavy heart at having lost one of my fovourite trees ; and I 

 thought, as I once again mused before the whitened and wonderful 

 landscape, how true it is that proud natures feel adversity most, and 

 are crushed by a weight of afflictions which would only bend more 

 humble souls, and how, therefore, humility is not only seemly and 

 Christian, but preservative, and may, perhaps, keep the heart and 

 the head from feeling the full force of a shock which to a proud 

 nature would bring despair and death. . 



Sakah. 



A FEW MOEE WOEDS ABOUT THE TUCHSIA. 



BT MR. n. CAK^'£LL, riTCHSlA :>fUESERTr, STATION STREET, WOOLWICH. 



SEE in the Elokal "World of last month a very inte- 

 resting paper on this subject by Mr. Prior, whom I have 

 often heard of as one of our clever amateurs, and a very 

 experienced and truthful writer on roses. I like that 

 paper on the fuchsia ; it is excellent as an amateur's 

 view on the subject, and I hope it will tend to revive the favour 

 with which the fuchsia used to be regarded, and which has declined 

 somewhat of late years. In my own experiences as a grower and 

 exhibitor before I entered into business, I always considered the 

 fuchsia the most elegant and most easily managed of all the good 

 favourites of the greenhouse ; and among the many prizes I have 

 taken at the great exhibitions, I think I value most of all those 

 which my fuchsias have obtained for me. Well, having read Mr. 

 Prior's paper, I said, That is an amateur's view of the question; I 

 will send the worthy Editor a nurseryman's view of the subject. I 

 do not pretend that my paper can be as interesting as Mr. Prior's, 

 but I do hope that, as it will, as it were, give to the readers of the 

 Eloral World both sides of the question — for I suppose it has 

 two sides — the fuchsia may be thereby brought into public notice in 

 the fairest way possible; and the newest information on the subject 

 may tend to advance the flower in public estimation, and make it, as 

 it deserves to be, the favourite with all classes. 



