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EDITORIAL MISCELLANY. 



NOTHER yeai' ; a fruitful one, all frost- 

 ed with the snows of its culminated 

 pilgrimage among us of material 

 earth, has just been harvested by 

 the garuerer of life . 1855 will be a 

 cherished year in the memory of 

 ft those who look to mother earth for 

 their pleasure or subsistence. The 

 resurrection year, the lirst in a long 

 time that has returned the tiller an 

 adequate compensation for his toil. 

 A precursor, we hope and fully be- 

 lieve, for years to come. Years in whicli the 

 Horticulturist shall experience greater delights 

 and larger rewards. Years that shall develope 

 the resources of this fertile land, and give its producers another 

 fathom of knowledge in the sea of scientific cultivation. Pardon 

 us, we do not mean a resort to the apothecary's art, but knowl- 

 edge as obtained by the observation of enlightened, intelligent, 

 practical men, who, instead of wasting precious time in pettifog- 

 ging, have been attracted by the great profits of horticulture and its 

 sister pursuits, given their endeavors to investigating its secret 

 granaries, exploring those more minute branches which the care- 

 less and uneducated have hitherto neglected, or which in their film- 

 covered vision they have failed to detect the gold hidden beneath 

 an almost transparent surface. Old school cultivators, are how- 

 ever, beginning to throw off their prejudices, though with a deal 

 of loathing, and urged on by example, are insensibly imbibing 

 new principles and investigating new theories. It is very hard 

 to do this, we confess. It is difficult in life's retrograde track, to 

 play a game in which the tracks are all new. We still have a 

 clinging desire for the fashions of our youth, and, therefore, with a 

 hesitating consent, and a grudging^hand, we imperceptibly allow 

 them to slip from us. And now that rural people are scenting 

 new game, and opening for posterity the doors of science that 

 they may reap the reward, we would take advantage of the 



