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Fellows as to tlie purcliase of tlie Fountains. Some object Co 

 them altogether, and the opinions of those wlio wish them are 

 divided between the two. The preponderance, however, seems 

 to be in favour of the small one. 



The only point upon which there seems to be something like 

 unanimity, is that the acquisition of a moderate number of the 

 "best brouzes is almost a necessity in the present state of the 

 Gardeii. 



duysanthemum Beds,— The space of ground in thef Ante- 

 Garden, which in Spring blazed with Messrs. Watefer & Godfrey's 

 Kalmias and Rhododendrons, is now the scene of a moi^e ifiodest, 

 but iu its way very remarkable, collection.- Mr. Salter, the 

 eminent grower of Chrysanthemums, has stocked that plot with hig( 

 favourite flower, and under the partial covering which has been put 

 up, a large collection of the best and newest varieties of Chrysan- 

 themums of all kinds may now be seen bursting into flower. One, 

 and not the least important, of the advantages which the Society 

 derives from its position and composition is, that the best men in 

 eacli branch of the science it was founded to encourage, find it 

 their interest and pleasure to bring to its doors the results of 

 their experience and labour. 



Thus, Mr. Salter, who, for twenty years has made a speciality of 

 growing Chrysanthemums, here exhibits at one glance the highest 

 pitch to which he has been able, by long years of steady perse- 

 verance and ingenuity, to bring this plant. The florist and the 

 botanist stand on a very different footing as regards their plants. 

 The latter has his plant ready furnished to his hand, but the 

 florist has almost to make his. Not one of the plants now ex- 

 hibited but is probably the result of years of breeding and 

 hybridising. It is refreshing to meet a man who rides his 

 hobby hard. No plan or device by which he thought it possible 

 fo improve his flowers has been omitted, and no expense spared 

 by Mr. Salter. Finding that some climates were better adapted 

 for maturing the seeds of his plants than others, he has made 

 experiments in almost every quarter of the globe. Not content with 

 Europe, he has sent plants to be grown for seed at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and had the produce returned to him. He has tried Algiers 

 in the same way, also Canada and the United States. He has com- 

 pelled this winter-flowering plant to flower in the summer time, 

 in the hope of making it ripen its seed in our own country 

 but without success— the plants refused to seed at alh He has 



