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not a single plant introduced within the same time so universally adapted alike 

 to the humblest and the grandest garden. 



Hybrids of Lilium auraiu/n. ^ Artcord of experience. Just such articles 

 are wanted ; and the more, the better. We wonder how many of the readers of 

 the Journal ever think of the labor, the care, the patience, and last, but by no 

 means the least, the money, required to enable one to write such an article. 

 Teachers in floriculture can never count the cost : their labor is for love ; and 

 small the recompense they receive. 



Mr. Hyde's article on Celery leaves nothing to be desired. Formerly a luxu- 

 ry, this vegetable is rapidly becoming one of the necessaries of life ; and I am 

 glad to see its cultivation and general management presented so fully, and yet 

 so intelligibly, before your readers. Celery should be more commonly grown in 

 our small gardens ; and I doubt not it soon will be. As the writer very truly 

 suggests, its cultivation is neither difificult nor expensive ; and, judging from a 

 recent examination of the plantations of some of our best growers, I should cer- 

 tainly decide that there was '• little toil and much money " in the crop. Mr 

 Hyde recommends, and most market-gardeners in this country practise, earthing 

 at intervals ; while tlie most successful English cultivators insist that the finest 

 celery is produced by permitting the plants to make their full growth, and then 

 earthing at once. I have thought that climate might have something to do with 

 the question, and possibly both parties be in the right. 



Canker- Worms. — li c:innoi too oiitwht impressed on the minds of fruit- 

 growers, that the price of all good fruit is constant, persevering, unremitting war- 

 fare with insects ; and the canker-worm gives us as hard a fight as any thing. 

 I advise fruit-growers by all means to put the boxes and troughs around their 

 trees ; lor, though the first cost is greater, when once done it is much less trouble, 

 and far more efifec tual, than the belts of tar or ink ; for the latter, even when fol- 

 lowed up thoroughly night and morning, week-days and Sundays, will, if the in- 

 sects come m such myriads as they sonietimes do, still permit a sufficient num- 

 ber to ascend to destroy the foliage pretty thoroughly. One word to those whose 

 trees are attacked for the first time. Don't wait for them to increase ; but put 

 your trough of oil around them as soon as you see the first grub. It is the 

 cheapest thing you can do. 



Meteorology in Horiicultiire. — Why should we not discover the law of 

 storms, and, indeed, of every alternation of the weather ? We never have known 

 them, but, instead, the weather has been deemed the most fickle of all earthly 

 things ; and so people have settled down into the belief that they never can be 

 known. Surely no man will presume to doubt that the changes of the weather 

 are governed by fixed laws ; and, to admit that, appears to me to involve the ad- 

 mission that they will some day be known. This, ho\Vever, is not necessary to 

 a knowledge of the effects of the weather on the various crops of the garden 

 and farm, however necessary it may be to the prevention of their injurious in- 

 fluences. I think Mr. Huntington's observations prove the truth of his views : 

 and the next thing is, how to guard against the rainy weather while the grapes 

 are in flower; and, if Mr. Saunders's copings will not do it, somebody's invention 

 will soon find out what will. 



