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whom they call a parcel of old women, for whose opinions 

 they don't care a fig, and whose cable (to use one of their own 

 phrases) they cut, and set them adrift determined to direct 

 their own vessel themselves. But, Sir, as my old master used 

 often to say " A bargain is a bargain:" and if they have offered 

 these rewards, and laid down a scale by which they are to be 

 distributed, surely they cannot have the assurance (bold as 

 they may be) to run contiary to their engagements. Besides, 

 Sir, will they pretend to set up their opinion in opposition 

 to the late Board? will they venture to say that because the 

 watch appears to go irregularly, it is a bit the worse for that? 

 What do they know about science ? " What is science to 

 " them, or they to science ?" And so little are they acquainted 

 even with the elements of it, that my fellow 'prentice tells me 

 that the club very often quiz them, and say that they are still 

 in leading strings, and have three learned advisers at the jmblic 

 expense to keep them from going adrift when any thing difficult 

 occurs. But this is not generally known, since it is kept snug 

 and quiet to themselves, as if they were ashamed of it. What 

 then should they know of the beautiful and sublime truths 

 that are hidden in the guise of an analytical expression, or 

 the obscure wording of an arithmetical rule? will they venture 

 to oppose (except by a stretch of arbitrary power, which I now 

 begin to dread) the solemn document of some of the first ma- 

 thematicians of the age, who have declared and pledged them- 

 selves that those watches, which fulfill the rule they have laid 

 down, are deserving the highest re'wardP Under these circum- 

 stances I trust that all bad watch-makers will make common 

 cause with me, and resist the innovation which I have now too 

 great reason to fear may be attempted. 



Trusting that these remarks will excite a little spirit of in- 

 quiry into this subject, I remain your very obedient servant, 



Clerkenwell, Nov. IG, 1829. C. M. 



LXVII. 071 the Cultivation of Botany in England. By Pro- 

 fessor Schultes, of Landshnt. 

 [Concluded from p. 366.] 

 T^HE garden of the Horticultural SocietyatTurnham Green, 

 ■' scarcely half an hour's distance from Kew, is of far greater 

 importance to the art of gardening, which is indeed the proper 

 design of the study of botany. This establishment, which is 

 described in the Horticultural Transactions, is likely to prove 

 of incalculable advantage to Britain and to all Europe: every 

 branch of Horticulture except the ornamental, being here 

 pursued to the greatest extent and according to the purest 



scientific 



