шо PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
have a lways borne a = — — 
than we hav ver see 
shows has been used as an unanswerable argumen 
ny to i might be 
called ġotanical subjects into the schedules of the 
Botanie or Horticultural Societies. If any 
proposed the introduction of a for such a 
subject, he would be met by the answer that it 
would give no effect—it would 
xtinguish him, “They doi 
there, wen sa сочат у all their taste, los 
shows are com urs!” and so 
"бана on step by ste until the whole show а 
now become опе unclouded — aze. The pe p tion 
has » 
at - w light 
questi It would n кырыш " that. the dd. se 
бына. оне were failures, in 
ce of their botanical classes, mat in si of 
them. It was not that the show would h 
d 
sufficiency of bri lants to combine th 
ke number for want of size. ur 
shows and their нэа might in a sense be сош-- 
—one almost all shadows 
e n ps the shade 
still predominates, as, if such show were held 
in don, the lights probably would there 
The splendour of colour is in рте тсе, and 
f foliage is more prized and in greater Де оп 
the Continen e leaving the taste wholly 
out of question here, That is a different matter, 
which we are not now consideri 
Th км. к this truth эй, we think, 
prove a real t to horticulture. a he vc 
of the present on h o much to | 
te the thoughts and energies of ө 
ablest horticulturists upon producing magnificent 
Specimens of flowering plants, or of a striking 
fine foliaged plants, and from this follow: 
that Horticultural Societies $, and horticulturists 
11 general, have abandoned the h alf of their 
legitimate domain. е 
stood, includes not 
et on the Ошен. and the 
attended the Co neress at 
hich 
Brussels, gives an Opening for at leas! a:tem pling | 
to bring it ages ne a right appreciation of its 
mission and its 
Another difference: between the ways of the 
Continent and this cou 
culture is the respect paid to it, and the eneourage- 
ment given to it b vernment and Soverei 
f the forme ecent lon the com- 
petitors who carried off the first prizes were deco- 
rated.* This, of eourse, is partly o pinus system 
of “decoration,” by which success in any branch 
f manufacture, or almost an line of "life s is m the 
their d e E it i probably also 
extent referable the T adm inam x 
bot aval science in the study of horticulture th 
It is well enough known that 
г 
нана 
is not likel y экер ine denn of the mere € З 
without science would ever have been sustain 
€ 
У increase d 
‚ than seek to анса у 
resent rage for and : 
2 The details of pears attracted 
admirati tion. 
m'rro 
universal 
of green tl pie 
mial ‘with ает close masses 0 - ne 
endrons, azaleas, and other vi den e o 
un 
з 
etl 
po ctly. 
SC ae ari at which р were 
дам place, was по 
;"xhibition. + answere the 
* Mr. Veitch was made Knight of 
4. Мг. Ambroise Verschaffelt 
the О а iit 
$ received ! a 
honour, ое 
We make this qualification, beca vis A ania 
е young caladiums ii had n teen 
дорое the first day, but this нт | ME z 
were exposed to in aii them - 
in 
