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require more than one plan! in a hundred of (Lose that come up; be 

 careful to begin thinning when the plants are quite young. Do not sow 

 delicate Annuals in the open borders until the end of April, or (which 

 is better) make two sowings, one in the middle of April and the other 

 in the beginning- of May ; these will succeed each other until October. 



I would here advise ray Friends to try the above plan with those mark- 

 ed [*], which will be found among- the Half Hardy Annuals." 



lie told me 1 was quite right and that I should make it public if I did not 

 care for being abused for a good intention, I said of those I had removed 

 to hardy, were grown with that cave and attention generally bestowed on them 

 by ladies or clergymen, I very little feared the result. None but friends 

 could envy his good advice to me. and his whole countenance -would beam 

 with satisfaction when he observed how 1 appreciated his council, and when 

 he brought me an order he would put me to the test of my knowledge by 

 putting up a certain quantity that would in ray opinion make most show and 

 iollow best in succession, in making such selection I was almost always for- 

 tunate in meeting with his approbation. 



That he had many old and inveterate enemies, I have often heard, but 

 from what real cause 1 know not. But by ptinciple J know he was a gen- 

 tleman that disdained dishonour, and his zeal and devoledness to the ad- 

 vancement of the science of which he was an eminent member, had few, very 

 few superiors ; and whether he was considered in his private or public station 

 as a Botanist, in my opinion, there never breathed a being less capable of 

 exciting enmity against himself, or of offering even by implication an offence 

 to others than Joseph Sabine, Esq. if he had a fault it was an error attributed 

 to his noble nature, to be deceived rather than suspicious, and his remorse- 

 Jess enemies knowing such, made, or tried to make him their victim, but he 

 lived to see the day that out lived thein all, some of the calumnies it is 

 thought preyed heavily upon him, though circulated too often by those who had 

 just head enough to invent censure, but not heart sufficient to feel for its 

 consequences. 



Others there are who from the estimation he deservedly was held in, felt 

 a sympathetic remorse, and would have been glad of his forgiveness, having 

 seen their error; but who like a " certain medical tree yields not its healing 

 balm, till it is once wounded," and though every abuse was heaped upon him, 

 it should not have been forgot he was the founder, 'and laboured hard to estab- 

 lish the Horticultural Society, and encourager of every thing else where his 

 assistance had any tendency in forwarding science ; as Sir T. Ackland justly 

 said, they ought to take into account the great good he had done, and not 

 leave all the biarae at his door. He who strike or main a man may remedy 

 in a great way by medicine, but there is no herb, nor .compound of herbs 

 cultivated from Culpeper, to the present time, in any of our Botanic or Horti- 

 cultural gardens that would cover or heal the wound inflicted by slander- 

 but no power could stain the " unsunned" snow of a character and intentions 

 as pure as his was. There are many young men to my knowledge, deeply in- 

 debted to his kindness and encouragement, none certainly more grateful, but 

 many more competent to do greater justice to his memory than your 



Humble and obedient Servant, 

 4, Great Russcl Strcrt, Covcnt fa'den London. J. Kernan. 



REFERENCE TO THE TLATE. 



Sparaxh't. — The four figures are a small portion of a'spike of each sort. They 

 are hybrids, raised by a gentleman in Guernsey, who deserves the thanks 

 of every cultivator of this lovely and interesting tribe of plants. We be- 

 lieve the gentleman would have pleasure in exchanging with any amateur 

 or nurseryman for other plants ; the address of the gentleman we can supply, 

 We subjoin 1 a portion of the remarks sent us at the time the drawing* 

 came. 



