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JODENAIi OF HORTIOULTDRE AND COTTAGE OAKDENEB. 



[ Jose J.1, 1868. 



alone A boy with a dull pocket knife is one who swings on 

 the gate, and who dodges his duty ; he is one who in after-life 

 will be a dniice and a cumberer of the ground; he will add 

 nothing to the world of science, neitier wUl he take from it- 

 his existence IS merely anima), his thoughts and ideas, if he 

 has any, wholly conventional. His comrade with a keen blade. 



makes models of machinery, or boats or steamers, and in time 

 he so developes his mother wit as to be a decided acquisition 

 to the community. Let ns have all the tools in good condition 

 sharp, trenchant, and always ready for service ; then, and then 

 only will the result produced be equal to the time and labour 

 expended.— {Scientijic Aiiurican.) 



HULL bota:n'ic.vl garden 



I WAS told that HuU would soon weary me, that it well de- 

 serves its central place in the 

 Yor kahi reman 's hope for escape 

 from "Hell, Hull, and Hali- 

 fax," and that William lll.'s 

 equestrian gilded statue in the 

 llarket Place, is the object 

 most noteworthy. So I went 

 prepared for a lack of pastime, 

 and I have come away with the 

 conviction that I never was in 

 a town much more full of sub- 

 jects of interest. The un- 

 equalled fleet of steamers from 

 all parts of northern Europe, 

 the crowds of German emi- 

 grants, the sj-stem of unload- 

 ing WTieat by hands taught to 

 act as accurately as if moved 

 by clockwork, the bales of Sea 

 Grass, Zostera marina, for 

 stuffing mattresses, the old 

 brick residences — for be it re- 

 membered that here Sir 

 Michael de la Pole revived the 

 art of brickmaking — all, and 

 many other objects engaged i 

 me long and gratified, so that j 

 time passed unheeded, and i 

 lees than I wished was left for 

 me to examine the Botanic i 

 Garden. 



I wish that very many more 

 Bnch gardens were established 

 throughout our country. No 

 largo town should be without 

 one, and they might easily be founded and sustained like 

 that at Hull. 

 Their value as 

 sources of in- 

 struction, health, 

 and amusement, 

 are above all 

 price. 



The Hull Bo- 

 tanical Garden 

 originated chiefly 

 from the exer- 

 tions of J. G. 

 Parker, Esq., and 

 was opened in ■•-. 

 &e Jane of 1812, „ JHw; 

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Fig. 2. 



five hundred transferable shares of five guineas each, and 

 the annual subscription is one gu.'nea and a half. It is 

 so well supported and valued that, although occupying sis 

 acres, its enlargement, or the purchase of a new site, is^con- 

 templated. 



In the beds and in pots the plants are grouped accord- 

 ing to the Natural System, and I never saw more interest- 

 ing or more numerous famiUes than some of them. For 

 example, there were about 120 species of Saxifraga in pots in 

 one group. 



Whilst examining these in company with Mr. Niven, the 

 courteous and thoroughly competent Curator, I was not a little 

 attracted to a blind botanist led into the garden by a httle 

 lad. His name is Carey (I never knew a Carey that" was not 

 intelligent), he was formerly a solicitor practising in Hull, 

 but became blind some thirty years since. This is'a world of 

 providential compensations, and to Mr. Carey the compen- 

 sation for the loss of vision is an increase in the delicacy of 

 the sense of touch, and in strength of memory ; he sees, as 

 it were, with the tips of his lingers, and he remembers what 

 they reveal to him. To test this a pot containing a very 

 small plant of Rubus arcticus was placed in his hands, and 

 another in which was growing an equally small Kubus'cha- 

 mnmorus. There was something abnormal in their leaves 

 which rather puzzled him, but he succeeded after awhile in 

 feeling them out. 



In the designing of the garden there is much skill shown 

 in compensating for, and in obviating its flat surface ; and in 

 the details— such as the banks for Alpines, made of clinker 

 bricks— there is much worthy of commendation; but some 

 raised beds contrived by Mr. Niven most especially pleased 

 me. They are oval, about 12 feet long, and about 5 feat 

 across in the widest part. The sides, 18 inches high, are 

 formed of slates, and kept upright and linn by cast>-iron 

 supporters of the form represented in fig. 1. These are 

 about 21 feet in length, with heads 10 inches broad, and a 

 quarter of an inch thick. Painted brown, and the slates 



painted stone co- 

 lour, with a pen- 

 dulous growing 

 edging of Ivy or 

 other plant, the 

 beds must be 

 very artistic. 

 The supporters 

 are placed so 

 closely together 

 that their heads 

 nearly touch 

 each other, and 



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'. The want of a good horficnltnral library has been long fett, 

 Snd more especially so after the dispersion of that which the 

 old Horticultural Society possessed at Regent Street ; but now 

 that the Trustees of the LisriLET LimuRT have become a 

 legally constituted body, not only will that want be supplied 

 by the valuable collection of books over which they will have 

 command, but they have determined that every student in 

 Horticulture, Botany, and Kndred subjects shall have free 

 Moess to it. With the view of still further increasing its 

 Utility, they also solicit assistance by presents of books or the 

 means of obtaining these, and, doubtless, many scientific 

 fco^es and private individuals will be glad to contribute to so 

 deeirable an object. Such as may feel inclined to do so »re 

 invited' to eommunioate to the TruBtees of the Lindley labrwy, 

 hofl Horticnltnial Soef^ty, Botitli Emeiogtos, IjoaaoD, Vf. 



Thk Royal Agricultural Sociaty of England having 



determined to hold their Show in 1869 at Manchester, we are 

 glad to announce that the Royal Horticultural and the Man- 

 chester Botanical and Horticultural Societies will hold in con- 

 junction with it a gr«at Horticultural Exhibition, which 

 promises to be on even a grander scale than that which is to 

 be held at Leicester thie July. 



At the Salb op OBCHrns forming the collection of the 



late J. A. Turtier, Esq., of Pendiebtiry Honse, Manchester, 00 

 the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th iust. the biddings which the auctioneer, 

 Mr. Stevens, of King Street, Covent Garden, obtained amounted 

 to £2*24. The following are some of the pricee realised : — 

 Odontogloseum Ba<vinm majus was knocked down to Meesiti 

 Veitch for £65, and the latDe firm pnrohaied • fine "plaat «t 



