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that a man can often make circumstances for himself. We may often 

 feel that our capacity is not great, but let us endeavour to improve 

 our opportunities, tliat we may thereby act our part well in the great 

 programme of life. C. M. 



THE GARDENJERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 



The Managing Committee of this excellent Institution have resolved to 

 make an effort to raise the pensioners' allowances from ,£16 and £12 to 

 £20 and <£16 ])er annum to male and female pensioners respectively. 

 To enable the Committee to attain this desirable end, they purpose 

 carrying out a scheme proposed by the secretary, Mr Cutler, of appeal- 

 ing to the gardeners of Great Britain, and recommending that a simul- 

 taneous collection be made in every garden in the kingdom on Satur- 

 day the 30th of July next. To alleviate the privations of aged and 

 indigent gardeners and their widows, who have either from old age or 

 misfortune been reduced to poverty, is surely a laudable object, and we 

 wish the proposed scheme every success. 



HORIZONTAIiliY TRAINED PEACH-TREES. 



If "J. S." will pay a visit to Rangemore, the seat of M. T. Bass, Esq., 

 near Burton-on-Trent, I have no doubt Mr Bennett will have great 

 pleasure in showing him horizontally trained Peach-trees above four- 

 teen years old which will please him ; and by the time he has gone 

 through the Peach ranges and seen several trees of various ages trained 

 on the same system, all laden with fruit and clothed with spurs, and 

 bearing wood from main stem to tip of branch, the opinion which 

 he formed of the system when visiting the French gardens may be 

 changed a little. I have visited Rangemore Gardens annually for nine 

 seasons, and I have always found the trees mentioned carrying a full 

 crop of fruit. Like " J. S.," I was prejudiced against the system, hav- 

 ing seen it tried by a good gardener for a few seasons, and then discon- 

 tinued because it did not answer. Now I am convinced it was through 

 mismanagement. R. Prince. 



CCELOGYNE CRISTATA. 



On the 11th May, we received from Mr Speed, of Chatsworth 

 Gardens, a fine example of this Orchid, which is known as the 

 Trentham variety, the chief and valuable characteristic of which is, 

 that it blooms fully two months later than other forms of this 

 Coelogyne, and so prolongs the blooming season of one of our most 

 useful and beautiful Orchids. This variety has been in commerce for 

 some time. 



