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the e weight acquired by the r l ack is sufficient 
to overcome the obstacles opposing its 
nees. eed, peee with 2 
Dile than p with smooth ones. 
of Grass an of other low plants 
fields falls, in yon os of this nation on of the a 
0 
ound, however, 
I shall soon, I hope, have the 
honour to present to the academy, 
ect onesie mad 
0. 
ewhere, it may per 
o throw some light on the obscure 
* same phenomena take place are in many 
In ves are 
diet erature | 
ich clothe the 
space ona 
e has never | 
nd 
u 
re the plai used they 
have failed. * without explanation might not be 
r of the saddle mode, and securing them with : a strip Par will that Council, 1 having sta s stamped mped with its approbation a 
50 , by perm 
mbers rmitting it to 
them and — arding, most justly, hor — 
ear 
— 
at in dee mark of 8 in pa ifi 1 pay 
r was used the graft | will they say it is of n e — 
ister was hey Mr. Lyons’s fi itio 
pages 2. 3, and 4 or oa leading article in the Gard 
Lh. 
rightly j — — 4 Ta and then n sayif the * eean 
ceeded. I: attribute its failure this season in part to it ss 0 3 the interests of horticulture? By lene tas A- no 
not bein free epi adhesive, having too much resin | 5. e 
in it, * partly to the heat and dryness of the 8 3 „ the cap oho eats gate ts x exhibitir 
The latter of course een the for both. e 
me for 
superiority of the India rubber, however, is fully esta- 
i f plaister used, but 
al keep a pame props 
t yet 
rly 7 
But I think k will kee 
ary. Iti 
eaten the first gai from, I gather a pod ce 
and there, but having fo a the earliest and bes 
pod nearest the ground, leads me to suppose by training |” 
n pheric 
oe 
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| have fally ee in the Ch 
to e fra 
copara, except in * coe hy 
no m r what 
14 
— of m aa outward signs of a good gardener ; ;” and 15 
saving — tors at thes 5 bitions ü diei 
from —— by weak Mr. Lyons calls 1 . a f 
ords 
ing. jos 
horticulture,” or men who, to use the w 
wou 
Chronicle, 
s 
5 adjudication but t 
This 8 is sequent if 2 always violated, 
would you think ? the Council an 
mined to be judges a wad . — order to remove scandal 
and suspicion, — entire posse of e 
the good for js ne, on y 
the en, Arey 
ting — a of ‘he e judges, 
2 and 
they w ao t for 
pd rip 
hone JE ary Ur 
e. whe. > may not choose to serie, . be alowed. — 
or igin —— mem So h 
his s il e, no matter ret 
out by the ani during that period is 
pita ba the grow above 
the 
ow 
fine o 1 — ol — ram ei 5 products of his 1 
be, eren being a 5 vet. beca mange does n 
e 
ground, i the habit of the Pea entirel 
covering the e garage, bat little circulation of 
eld. My landi 
r patience, I will ha 
the bebe of their ir being corrected, I w 
details of the Bo whic prn = cnn J pee managet 
thin chie tributed t at I hope 
te difficulties —4 1 of this Society 
I will begin with the tea siy en ot the 5 neil. No gardener 
or nur 4 — 4 
tere vaste har 
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is, 
no gardener, no ma 
| able or ‘deserving, dare i 
* 
g is part of Surr 1 Aalen l days | 
ane to the 20th of May without any artificial care wh 
ver.— 7 i 
He . AR of Ireland.—It is not “to 338 
poverty, pol litical mosities, agrarian outrages, or Sax 
do 2 that is to Stn i, — “state — 
— N he Shara ps bance 2 80 en the o e 55 Rosi 
Society of Ireland, nor yet toget er to it roles, 
objectionable though they may be i part; itis rather toa 
ale ot of a strict 5 of aoe — — “the Council, 
u justly infer, o aps I should 
for the ph — 8 ng members of ‘the Society; which 
ute pro- 
voie ence they 
sa ontemot, 
is trenge enough in the management o 
fessedly got up for their . ta RF 
2 vate. Now with regard to the non 
will take as they come those, the violation or neglect of whioh 
1 dinners of the different ioe 5 
besten hout the ntry, noblest in 
e land, without detegnting | in the least from hei d dignity, or 
detracting from that respect due to the ir ee aac ht on 
e contrary, — crops N it, upie of 
volgen ‘a Job and Hodge, the epresentativ 
class behind i in ia alleen the Terpantas able 1 
2 it is the respectable gar — 
eria 
—— see what are the privil eges of the “h 
bere” t the e working Legit § this h horticultural yi if “iis 
ve ot — —— subscribe, he, though he pays for 
doing so, enter anything for com ‘that 
privilege ae any horticultural Foo F. 
m the © celestial empire.” Nor will he be permi 
ribet wiling to pay for it), to where any of the 
ouneil a esent; and if a any of the productions nd his 
— ‘the ‘objects of his anxious care, are deem orthy of a 
d, by the way, this is a practice es adopted 
for 
8 ody 
I and so » many complain of—giving the rule and then the prac- 
tice 
in which ‘things are managed about London, will open your 
„ See, a Brits Sheet Glass. al beg 
state that I lants 
; 
glass is used, eat 
erases more oon 8 8 ‘sheet glass tiie —.— 
common glass, bu t both kinds will scorch if air is 
SANNA Ge Te Given. oY the bore time.— Samuel 
Barrett, gr. to Sir E. Cullum Be ae rie 
Rosa 1 rea.— As . about this Rose is 
red capes be of use 
n budded in Jul uly 
on a branch of Rosa splendens.— 
„ -1 3 
he early part 
“ee 
one of your 
And — Men most inclined — vay and, find we Fahan — = 
Can such things be?“ Nor will it serte pm 
wonder that this Society so uld beina “state of decadence.” 
e 2d says— es shall be appointed for 2 class, 
— shall not be — 2 — in that class, = ente r the ro- 
tunda on the days of exhibition until a ‘ge ave 
been arranged for adjudication.” Now fo rs 3 of the 
judicial triumvirate ; for each class is slways taken satis the 
owe v 
ating of the Council, most of whom m are gen com- 
or their gardeners, for the Society’s priz n the 
mornin ng of the day of exhibition they generally. “breakfast 
gether at one of the Sackville-street hotels. Semana 
eps e Bes urry to the exhibition room, — 
entry of sp ens is com pleted or their arr: 
menced, e. 
Aeh 
rranging, or * tow — tie "adjudication; the 
not to beho = the 
judges a 
specimens. which the rule says they are 
the pection. 
room be cleared and subjects arran 
d for their 
I shall not easily forzet the astonishment ieplayed % Oy — 0 
— — 1 ry 1 
with sho a on the other 
side 
etators this scene. 
That N eee airties” may, that — do, 
these circumstances with perfect fairness, A N br 8 4 
ove 
adjudicate under | appr 
not a “sign of 2 "7 8 the 
f g is eee 
another matter to which | — 
nd on exhibition iad, the sib is infor: — by ee e ue, 
that an exhibition of fruits, flowers, ao, bee take place at 
the Rotunda, Now ev ery one has a fancy of s own; „some 
some the 
visiting the exhibition pay 2s. each, expecting to see all this; 
but do they seeall? No. They y may see the plants and v 
tables ; but the fruits, — the least interesting portion of the 
exhibiti tion, generally 
to the Rotunda, they pes anctum” being 
strictly guarded by a couple of sturdy fellows from the metro. 
politan force, and accessible to none but the members of the 
Council and their friends. This is not treating the public fairly, 
ake th ay for seeing o rt w. they were under 
the impression see This is only worthy of th 
itinerant showmen who ind the rusti pay their pe 
expecti see within the o l of nondescripts, the 
creation of the painter’s fancy, on the huge daub outside. Now 
insinuate ; ee t that aaa decisions 
8 o be), 
these evils, that it agi be so managed for the future as to make 
suspicion give way t nfidence, murmuring to satisfa pte! 
and that the many well <ieliibe of this most useful and popu 
ae ihag (under a new order of pusas iy: it parei 
8 gd ve reason joyfully to excla 
11 t et virgo, edni Saturnia 
the raudis. 
able 1 o scent e 
ee e 
gene 
the live than almost any 
dener sort. I + 
ing whole; for thie pure e A kitchen 
excellent 55 for table 
p May or June, W. P. L 
t myr excellent rule, the — of which wo 
ential in the 
pons 
entered, I may join in nich requires 5 “to take 
notice that a ny plant or fruit found incorrectly named will be 
subject to disqualification for competition.” Now, this isa 
uld ste most 
advancement ening, rs too. 
its exhibitions, and exhibitors, than trag 
and perversions — L uote nomenclature which hthe * 
ocak as well as the general w of order fo neatness = 
bee teak: AAAI exhibition must tend in no small 
Renee to 1 ** yg of ‘the public for the science and its 
cuitivators ; the judges N would it a rule so 
m. 
* hy not blot it out? if useful, carry it out. 
oach the most disagreeable portio nication, 
namely the payment of prizes, which, paltry as „ Sigg are, have 
poy er been paid satisfactorily, someti mes, y oftentimes, not 
all, ntion to the rule 
5 re all 
of the ewig a the chairman,” 
fo cae he 8 
to arrears 
drafts for payment shall be signed b; 
Weil, let. it occur. 4 
ociety wed itself to 
— an advertisement in 1 pap wi 
claim the Society to send them in, Pees 2 
satisfied. E not sent in, — were to lose 
claims. And were they s tisfied ? — were —.— pai T Ne! 
I. 7 k; Peta fı . the equer 
be do — You ose seeing there was not suffi. 
cient funds to off all, they (which would have given p 
satisfaction to all the prizeholders) 1 truck an ave- 
as 
they do? 20 by tr 
and no others; por 
pers overboard, a 
They pai 
those w 
the Society i in 18177. And under, as I am informed, th erhaps 
legal, y plea that not cor 
porated Society” they could neither sue nor be s they 
adopted this Pennsylvanian mode of satisfying oe Ee — 
se with whom they Alas, that t 
r were in arrears, 
a Horten should hay 
tion, and that there is not some ‘Sidney Smith amongst ita its 
votaries here, to froi amen 
to shame “repudiation” 
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