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after a fashion peculiar to themselves ! Yet more : those mansards, 

 in whose garrets the woiking-girl cultivates at her casement : often at 

 a mere dormer-window ; some plant that she has bought, or the 

 ' Volubilis,' of which she sowed the seeds ! So much the less can it 

 be called a matter of money. That alone will not suffice. Something 

 else than wealth is essential. Love ! love, — without which nothing can 

 be accomplished ; but with which, on the other hand, all thing^ are 

 possible, and which has caused the saying, — ' Though I should" have 

 the gift of miracles, and though I should speak all tongues, it would 

 be useless if I had not Charity — in other words — Love.' 



"Veiy well, that Love! we have known in Paris a man who pos- 

 sessed it, and who, upon the fifth story, well-nigh sixty feet from the 

 ground, has created a veritable Garden. This man is M. Lockroy, 

 senior; who indeed has always been foiid of plants. He cultivated the 

 earth as long as he could ; and until his garden, in the Rue du Roche, 

 had been taken to build streets : then, still loving those whom he 

 called 'his children,' he commenced, at No. 32 Washington Street, a 

 garden in the air. But here again he distinguishes himself; and, in- 

 stead of limiting his efforts to the growth of a few climbing plants for 

 the purpose of shade ; he has invented as it were, and created what 

 probably exists nowhere else : — an actual fruit garden — a sort of 

 Orchard. And there is just where you may see what can be done 

 when one is influenced by the love, or passionate desire, for a thing. 

 Note the facts ! Upon a terrace almost twenty (20) metres long by at 

 least two (2) wide ; strengthened towards the street by an iron rail- 

 ing ; M. Lockroy has placed boxes in which the pots containing his 

 Pears are completely buried. It would be useless to add that the soil 

 is a suitable compost, thoroughly assimilated." 



The writer, Mons. E. A. Carriere, adds that M. Lockroy per- 

 mits no one but himself to touch his trees, and goes on to state 

 that : — 



" The number of varieties grown by M. Lockroy, is eighteen : of 

 which none seem to find the maimer of cultivation unsuitable. While 

 he has had among them the Doyenne d'Hiver, and other varieties 

 that generally spot, there are never defective fruits in that ^rial 

 Garden on Washington Street, thanks to the use of nicotine which 31. 

 Lockroy sprinkles freely. Perhaps there is a lesson in this, whose 

 application may well be wider. 



"Although Pear culture receives the most attention, 31. Lockroy has 

 demonstrated that his manner of cultivation is adapted to other things, 

 as well. For, besides Currants, and Gooseberries, he grows Roses 

 with very great success : and we can testify that the vigor and health 

 of his bushes as well as the beauty of the flowers leave nothing to be 

 desired. ^>j Let us add, to explain this result, that 31. Lockroy is a pas- 

 sionate amateur in Rose-culture; and that, in the era of Laffay, 

 Vibert, Verdier, and Leveque, — seniors, — his knowledge, in all that 

 relates to this genus, had already constituted him a teacher." 



