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appropriate. C. cardinalis and C. ventricosa are also beautiful kinds 

 for the decoration of the greenhouse or conservatory. They are, how- 

 ever, of a more slender habit of growth than the two former species, 

 and require to be closely cut back at pruning time for the purpose of 

 imparting to the plants a more compact and bushy shape than they 

 naturally assume when not treated so. In conclusion, I would recom^ 

 mend those who have not yet cultivated Correas to get half-a-dozen 

 each of the above four species from their nurseryman, and carefully 

 attend to them during the coming summer, and I have no fear but the 

 result next winter will be satisfactory to the cultivator. 



J. Hammond. 



NOTES FROM THE PAPERS. 



Another "burster" from John Wills, F.RH.S., (fee. We can never 

 read those periodical " demonstrations " of Mr Wills without thinking 

 of his bread-and-butter Vine-borders, which he made when at Huntroyde 

 Park, concerning which he manifested the same characteristic energy. 

 Mr Wills's Vine borders were to eclipse all Vine-borders that had ever 

 been made before ; they were to last " not for five but for fifty years " 

 at the least. They were five feet deep, and they were made on the 

 "roly-poly" principle, and unheard-of results were expected from 

 them ; but the inventor's own account was the first and last anybody 

 has ever heard of them. So far as we know, we regard Mr Wills's 

 enthusiastic and somewhat obtrusive horticultural patriotism in some- 

 what the same light that we did his Vine-border exploit. In a late 

 rambling communication to one of the papers, Mr Wills indulges, by 

 turns, in humble and vainglorious rodomontade. His great concern, 

 as usual, is the " future of horticulture " — a7id — the " General Horti- 

 cultural Company," we suspect. Mr Wills hopes and believes he will 

 live to see the day when " a flower-show will be held in every village ; " 

 and this consummation, we suppose, is likely to happen when horti- 

 culturists of all shades and degrees enrol themselves under the banner 

 of the aforesaid " Company," of which Mr Wills is the great luminary. 

 If Mr John Wills could by any means be projected into space, he 

 would become a star of the first magnitude — shining by his own light. 

 The following paragraph from the article in question looks very like 

 fishing for compliments : — 



"Revertiug again to the future of gardening, I think many will give me 

 credit for the part I have taken in trying to help the advancement of an 

 art which is part and parcel of my nature. My writings, I think, will also 

 show that I have devoted a considerable amount of care and time to its 

 advancement, and that I have tried to do so at no trifling cost ; and I 

 solemnly affirm that in the change recently made in the style of my under- 

 taking, I have been actuated solely by the wish to benefit my fellow-men, 

 and not in any way to injure others. The impression indissolubly impressed 



