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Pr. LiNDLny appears not to havo liked the article from the Lomlon Illustrated iVeu-s, which 

 wo copied for what it was worth in our April number. He thus scolds the cheats and the 

 clieated in tho Gardeners' Chronicle, for what nught sometimes apjily to our own home 

 regions : — 



"People love to he cheated. There is no doubt about it. Lies are charming; and tho 

 greater their dimensions, the more easily are they swallowed. Tlie wonderful, although 

 impossible, carries with it a fascination which nothing can resist. John Bull, under the 

 eve of a mountebank, especially if he comes from a far land, is like a bird under the gaze 

 of a sei-i)ent, with this difference, that the bird jumps down the reptile's throat, while tho 

 mountebank jumps into Mr. John's pocket. This is a national peculiarity, manifested 

 everywhere, as showmen, quack doctors, patent medicine venders, manure makers, miracle 

 mongers, fortune tellers, political conjurors, joint stock company promoters, and every othiT 

 sort and form of humbug, know to tlieir profit. 



" Such being part and parcel of the constitution of our worthy fellow-countrymen, and 

 the disease in (juestion being absolutely chronic, as the learned would say, it seems useless 

 to put men on their guard against the swindlers who swarm in all directions ; as alas ! we 

 know it to be. So far, indeed, is naming these gentry from teaching people what to avoid, 

 that they only rush to them the more. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the gar- 

 dening world. The very man who grumbles at paying an honest tradesman a shilling for a 

 red moss rose, will gratefully deposit his two guineas in the palm of the knave who pro- 

 fesses to sell him a yellow one. In short, it is only necessary to hire a shop in some London 

 thoroughfare, and circulate handbills, informing the gaping public that the celebrated foreign 

 naturalist and traveller, Herr Chetallsky, has just arrived from remotest parts of the great 

 Tartarian desert, that fertile country never trodden by the foot of man. To the announce- 

 ment should be added a list of the invaluable natural products brought by Herr Chetallsky, 

 and oflfered to the public at from one to five guineas each. The list will of course include 

 apples weighing six pounds each ; pears as large as your head ; strawberries weighing a 

 couple of pounds, and growing on trees whose branches weep beneath the burden — a great 

 convenience to invalids who cannot stoop; cherries bearing ripe fruit every month in the 

 year ; asparagus, such as is served up at the table of the Great Mogul, having the valuable 

 property of growing two feet in a day, and requiring neither water nor manure ; roses of 

 surprising size, blue striped with yellow, black barred with crimson; tulips the size of 

 punch-bowls ; potatoes smelling of Eau de Cologne, a most wonderful property never before 

 heard of, and so on. To this must be added plenty of pictures, said to represent faithfully 

 the novelties in question, executed after photographs obtained by an entirely new i:>rocoss, 

 discovered in the mountains of the Moon. All this prepared and well advertised, the shop 

 will soon fill with eager buyers. 



"To simple people, all tliis must seem an absurd exaggeration ; but they are quite mis- 

 taken. Announcements quite as remarkable are coolly made in the city of London, in this 

 present month of March, A. D. 1857, and find plenty of believers who joyfully pay their 

 money, and go their way rejoicing." 



" A Simple Contrivance for Transplanting Trees from place to place with facility," says a 

 correspondent, "without injury to the ball of earth, and that which is of the greatest im- 

 portance, without lifting the tree from the ground to the carriage, thereby admitting of a 

 much larger ball than usual being attached to it, has long been a desideratum. I will en- 

 deavor to describe a plan invented by a Mr. Thomas, a very intelligent landscape gardener, 

 which combines all tho requisites, and has been used in this neighborhood with great suc- 

 and satisfaction to all parties. Take a sheet of iron four feet square and one- 

 inch thick. We must suppose one side to be the front ; on the front, therefore 



