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will be just enough of them and no more. They will not need to be thinned or 
shortened, or supported. The only objection to this mode of management is that 
the production of fruit is apt to take one by surprise, and to cook the produce of 
a plantation under natural management will necessitate the borrowing of all the 
preserving pots and pans in the parish. The currant and the gooseberry need no 
pruning whatever, unless it be for some special purpose; and if you make a note of 
their behaviour in some neglected garden, you will see that the young wood of the 
last season, that ‘ ought” to have been pruned away, is as heavily laden with fruit 
‘as the old wood, and it is not unusual for trees thus left to nature to be so bent 
down every year with the weight of the fruit as to acquire a pendulous habit— 
this, indeed, is nature’s way of pulley pruning. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOWS. 
Tue exhibitions of chrysanthemums in the metropolis and the provinces have, 
generally speaking, been very satisfactory, although the average quality of the 
flowers has not been so high as during the last two or three years. To present 
detailed reports is out of the question; but for the information of our readers we 
give the names of the finest varieties staged at the several exhibitions. Ineurved 
Flowers.—Beverley, Bronze Jardin des Plantes, Dr. Brock, Empress of India, 
Fingal, Florence Nightingale, General Bainbrigge, General Hardinge, George 
Glenny, Gloria Mundi, Golden Beverley, Golden Dr. Brock, Golden John Salter, 
Guernsey Nugget, Isabella Bott, Jardin des Plantes, John Salter, Lady Hardinge, 
Lady Carey, Lord Derby, Miss Mary Morgan, Mrs. G. Rundle, Mr. Brunlees, Mr. 
Gladstone, Pink Pearl, Prince Alfred, Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales, Princess 
Teck, Rev. J. Dix, Queen of England, White Venus. Pompones.—Andromeda, 
Aurore Boréale, Bob, Cedo Nulli, Fanny, Golden Aurore, Hélene, Little Beauty, 
Madame Eugene Domage, Madlle. Marthe, Mrs. Turner, President Decaisne, Rose 
Trevenna, St. Michael, Salamon, White Trevenna. 
THE GARDEN GUIDE FOR DECEMBER. 
O Naturz! all thy seasons please the eye 
Of him who sees a Deity in all. 
It is his presence that diffuses charms 
Unspeakable, o’er mountain, wood, and stream, 
To think that He, who rolls yon solar sphere, 
Uplifts the warbling songster to the sky ; 
To mark his presence in the mighty bow 
That spans the clouds as in the taints minute 
Of tiniest flower ; to hear his awful voice 
In thunder speak, and whisper in the gale: 
To know and feel his care for all that lives ;— 
Tis this that makes the barren waste appear 
A fruitful field, each grove a paradise. 
Yes! place me ’mid far-stretching woodless wilds, 
Where no sweet song is heard; the heath-bell there 
Would soothe my weary sight and tell of Thee! 
There would my gratefnily uplifted eye 
Survey the heavenly vault by day,—by night, 
When glows the firmament from pole to pole ; 
There would my overflowing heart exclaim, 
‘The heavens declare the glory of the Lord, 
The firmament shows forth his handiwork!” 
JamEs GRAHAME, 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
In warm sheltered places the Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger, will produce its 
large salver-shaped white flowers; and in more expoaed situations this useful old 
plant may be had in bloom by placing hand-zlasses over well-established clumps, or 
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