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(Enotheras, and so on. After one special display had waned another 

 would follow, and the changes of the border would charm the 

 possessor a thousand times more than the most elaborate bedding 

 display, at only a thousandth part of the cost for a similar extent of 

 ground. Would I not match a line of Ali/ssum saxafile, ^rlittering 

 like gold, alternating with Aubrietia Campellii and Moret, ao-aiust 

 the best geranium composition ever seen ? Would not patches of 

 Campanula carpatica, alternating in the same line as the last give 

 blue in autumn not to be surpassed for purity and depth,' and 

 Campanula rotundifolia, white and blue of such exquisite beauty in 

 the summer as to render such a border a most lively comment upon 

 the lines of one of your English poets. 



" A tiling of beauty is a joy for ever : 

 Its loveliness increases ; it will never 

 Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep 

 A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 



Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breatluno-, 

 Therefore on every morrow are we wreatliino- °' 



A flowery band to bind us to the earth." 



It was througli reading a translation of that in my own German 

 tongue that I first became impassioned to study your lanauaae and 

 as I went about the garden in my fatherland, did conVrch the 

 lessons that now enable me to enjoy your society and your books 

 it b-od spares my life till another month, I will go on with this 

 ^^^J^^*- Kael PbOSP£R. 



CULTIVATION- OP SHOW TULIPS. 



ON referring to the past eight volumes of the Ploeal 

 World which you so kindly sent me, I do not find any 

 treatise on the cultivation of the tulip as a florists' 

 flower. As it has long been one of my best favourites, 

 and I have sought information from every possible 

 source relating to its history and culture, it occurred to me that as 

 the season for planting is near at hand I might pen a little treatise 

 which mightbe practically useful to some of your readers, and in some 

 way interesting to many who have no particular wish to cultivate this 

 flower. And first, while thanking you for the volumes, let me testify 

 as a practical man to their high value as a body of original and useful 

 information on horticultural matters, which I am sure cannot be 

 surpassed, and which I think cannot be equalled by any similar 

 periodical work ranging over the same space of time. Many of the 

 essays on matters of taste in gardening read as fresh as if written 

 but yesterday, and as for matters of fact, why, facts are never stale 

 to those who want them, and I hope by frequently enjoyinf^ the 

 perusal of the volumes during the long evenings to reap the benefit 

 m the management of my garden next year. On the management of 

 florists' flowers I can presume to teach, but on gardening generally 

 and especially on the disposition of colours and the management of 

 useful fruits, I am desirous to learn. By the way, what a nice present 



