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We are happy to give another letter, this month, from our esteemed corre- 

 spondent, Hon. Joseph S. Cabot ; which we feel assured will be read with much 

 interest. Mr. Cabot's well-known success in floriculture, and his large experi- 

 ence with florists' flowers, enable him to write understandingly ; and his remarks 

 possess greater interest coming from one whose own garden has in years past 

 given us many choice novelties and rare plants. 



To the Editor of "The Americari Journal of Horticulture and Florist's Companion." 



Sir, — The love of flowers is universal in England ; at least, so far as universal 

 cultivation can justify such opinion. This grows in part, perhaps, out of the 

 fondness of Englishmen for a country-life, for rural pastimes, sports, and occupa- 

 tions. Englishmen — meaning, of course, those in easy circumstances — seem to 

 live in the country, and, unless confined to it by business, only stay occasionally 

 in the city. In the spring or summer, the Englishman goes for a month or two 

 to the city on business or for pleasure, to attend parliament, or to meet with his 

 club : but his home seems to be at his country-house ; and hence he delights to 

 ornament it, and to improve his grounds. This fondness for flowers appears to 

 pervade all classes, — the poor as well as the rich, the lowly as well as tne exalted. 

 To find, at great places, hot-houses, greenhouses, and flower-gardens, is only 

 what would be expected ; such are only a necessary accompaniment of such 

 places : but when a corner of the little garden of the cottager is found, as is 

 often the case, appropriated to flowers, and the house of the laborer to have, if 

 room permit, at least a rose-bush or two about its entrance, or a flowering-vine 

 creeping up under its eaves, or, if there is no room for these, at least pots of 

 geraniums, fuschias, or daisies, in the window, it seems to justify a belief in an 



