1877.] 



AND HOBTIGULTUEIST. 



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article to which it is apphed. A copyright upon 

 a name for a variety in horticulture would not 

 secure to its owner even for one day a monopoly 

 In the production or sale of the variety. It would 

 simply give to him for a time, as the best meas- 

 ure of protection the nature of the article to be 

 protected will admit of, the exclusive control of 

 the name he may have originally adopted to in- 

 dicate that variety, and hence the benefit of the 

 reputation he may create for it under that name. 

 In other words, it would prevent the public from 

 taking frorn him the benefit of his own advertising, 

 and exhibiting of his oivn production — nothing 

 more. Surely this could not work injustice, nor 

 could it create gigantic monopolies of which 

 many stand in fear. 



Having presented through the essay referred 

 to an "opening" argument in favor of horticul- 

 tural copyrights, and having offered to send a 

 copy of it to any of your correspondents who feel 

 sufficiently interested in the subject to engage in 

 its discussion, it seems to me to be the simpler 

 method, and I would much prefer that those 

 who may be opposed to the measure should 

 point out specifically the objections to which it 

 seems open. Then, if others more competent 

 should not take up the work, or the opponents 

 of the measure should not present overwhelming 

 arguments, I will be happy to make such reply 

 as circumstances will permit, or to admit that 

 my ground is untenable if such should be shown 

 to be the case; or, if there be those who think 

 the plan open to insuperable objections, and yet 

 have not sufficient confidence in the validity of 

 these objections to state them publicly, if they 

 will communicate with me I will endeavor to 

 answer their objections through your columns. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



European N~otes by the Editor. — Now nearly 

 forty years ago, and though but a boy entering on 

 his teens, the writer of this was a careful experi- 

 menter and observer in horticulture, and was, 

 moreover, a subscriber to, and careful reader of 

 Harrison's Floral Magazine (now Shirley Hib- 

 berd's Gardener's Mar/azine), and in this he read 

 with deep interest of the labors of a Mr. Buist, of 

 Philadelphia, in introducing the Verbena. Ver- 

 bena Buistii was figured, and accounts of V. Hen- 

 dersoni, and some others by the same grower, 

 given. How far this may in after years have 

 induced the young lad to come to America, we 



cannot now say, but it was the primary cause of 

 his settling in Philadelphia. Many a time 

 during the thirty years that have elapsed, he 

 felt a strong desire to visit the land of his birth, 

 but the desire to see and to know first his adop- 

 ted country, was always one strong reason for 

 deferring that pleasant time. Having at length 

 had the chance of visiting four-fifths of all the 

 States in the American Union, and obtained a 

 good general idea of its wealth and condition, he 

 felt that he might venture to go back and tell 

 his people of the sights and experiences of his 

 new found land. 



So, one Thursday morning in June he packed 

 up his little trunk, and took passage on the 

 steamer Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia to Liv- 

 erpool, for old England. These steamers — the 

 only American line of mail steamers in this 

 country — are not as large as those sailing from 

 some other ports; but for the sake of society 

 this was found to be perhaps an advantage, for 

 in a large lot of saloon passengers they break up 

 into little knots or circles, each as exclusive as 

 we often find them in ordinary society life. Our 

 lot of seventy-five soon became acquainted with 

 each other, and in this way found out many 

 whom it will be a pleasure long to remember, 

 and whom we should have never known in the 

 "select set" system of larger bodies. As Arch- 

 bishop Wood, one of our return passengers, 

 sagely says : " It is best to learn who our neigh- 

 bors are, and to think well of them from the 

 first, for it is easier to think bad of a man after 

 believing him good, than to correct an evil im- 

 pression when once unjustly formed." A short 

 run of nine days and a half puts us on shore 

 again, and we fall to at once and go on with our 

 work. 



What a little place England is, and yet how 

 powerful! This was my first day's reflection. 

 We were all on the Pennsylvania in the Mersey 

 early on one morning— almost in the north of 

 England— and yet I took tea the same day at 

 Ryde— about its most southern point. It was 

 not as fiir as from Philadel])hia to Pittsburgh, 

 and yet we had already divided England in two! 

 It did not seem much to be even the Queen of 

 such a delicate little i)iece of ground, but when 

 I roniembered how the wide world looked when- 

 ever the British lion roared, I saw that it was 

 brain, and not merely muscle that sent the world 

 rolling solidly along. I think this impression of 

 diminutiveness prevailed through almost all my 

 experience, and yet there was an amount of 



