26—1848.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. ii 
Ha ULTURAL DON.— ecrous. They have an annual dinner, to which are Dublin, as elsewhere, they will find 
SOCIETY OF ‘LOND * 
UKE OF DEVONSHIRE, Presi- admitted all. pe who can afford to buy a tiekot į prosperity i in 1 abundance. if they will but use ca 
—— — "kindly directed the | except the very men to ‘canta talents and ill- | measur 15 
ds of Chiswiok aan cadet athe neat E Esnibition, — requited skill they owe the 8 of — abuse. — 5 — 4 above all things tke as their 
pran ei 1205 July. Tickets are issued to the orders dinner to eat. Gardeners excluded ‘from the motto, “ Chae honour where hon 
of Fellows of the Society — — 2 1 mice or at the | table of the Dublin Dittes r Till this ehr broke Three of one e describe the Society 
3 — ofthe 12h Jay at the Society. But upon us we had no idea that such creatures as Horti- —— “rotten to the core 2 not think so 
ngora, or ere — — cota 0 yer per ed. We ring eee ee ft 8 4 ree Oe 
— — — officer an autl of them in England, and as the doings of St. Paraicx | is no doubt, however, a 2 ap rotten a 
= — > on gg e pa n Ireland are matter of his istory, 3 scarcely and as the core is the m won rthless.part, it woul 
. Ser pect "2 3 We on the day | have looked for ised in that kingdom. The English be as well to throw it saa t once, lest it may 
higher elasses have the credit or discredit of being corrupt the healthy solid parts in contact with it. 
The Gardener. g Chronicle. — and over proud of their wealth, ran 
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gh deeds, or ancient lineage. In their defence| Taer HE grounds of the KENSAL Green CEMETERY 
SATURDAY, JUNE 2 t may at least be alleged that they have something | were laid out, we believe, by Messrs. Ronaps and 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO — WEEKS. to be proud of: but they are all humility a Jon, of Bren tlor d. _To thousands of the inhabitants 
r 1 She, with the grandees of Dublin. We have s of I 
— +. 1 — “yd English Dukes at table with ‘pigjobbers, on ce N uct . — 5 me they perhaps have 
—— Lae i oe: occasion of a public „ TRY meeting ; the head | not giv attention to the good or taste 
nt — ieee <-s... eee . of the great house of Rus id not shrink 0 which may have been therein displayed; while to 
— 2 ae pt mena areas Hae occasional contact with — plebeian folk ; but | the ig majority of those who live beyond the 
8 "Jone 27: Banbrsh aad Noth Bet Gar an Irish Horticultural Councillor —— permit a | suburbs of th 
e Nesse Fioricultural—Wedvesday, June 28th; Manchester Horti: gardeuer, not even if Vice Regal, “to come between — N That there is good taste displa ed in 
cultural. the > wind and his nobility.” å the arrangement of the grounds, trees, and shrubs, 
Ir has been for so mmf any years the custom of the d against the Council | we think perfectly clear. And the credit due to the 
Hense URAL SOCIETY or Lonpon to — their is worthy of the rest of their conduct. They invite | designers for this result will be the more 8888 
Chiswick meetings on ag ay, that it seems de- people to see their Show, take the 2s., and then when we look at the difficulties with which they 
sirable to mention that the next and last Exhibition when the money is pocketed, they turn round and | had to contend bothas to the space on which * 
for the season is on a Wzpyespay. The-beautiful | say—Oh! good people you can only see the flowers ; had to work, and the limited portion within that 
of Chiswick House will be open on this | the fruit is reserved for your betters ; it is not for | space on which they could finda field for their skill, 
occasion to the visitors, and we see it announced | eyes profane. There are the Cabbages and the To expect that ponme ro» A sessed the painful 
that for the convenience of persons who are unac- Potatoes and the rest of it for you; but the fruit | path to the grave which is to receive one whom 
ted wi e Fellows of the Sotiety, respect- is for us, Are the 1 afraid of the crowd? |t they have long and leet ay should feel more 
able strangers, and residents in the country, will be — the visitors, who pay 28. a head for a peep, in | than a eneral sense of the characteristic features 
supplied with andans, 9 tickets, upon making a state of starvation ? and do ‘the Council dread the | of the spot—or that while surrounded by memorials 
written application Vice-Secretary, ai, — of — famished meeting ? of a common mortality they should attempt to 
ue oe e their addresses. nothing to eber, which, as we are examine the taste displayed by the designers 
a 1 been — upon eo = unhappily would be in the 3 of human nature and human 
weeks e | success Exhibito winners prizes are experience. But ot hers, bearing i in mind the wus 
(b. ale) to the condition of the Kovar Horreur- not only deprived "of any honour that belongs to | loci, and not af in spirit by a recent loss, can 
TURAL Socrery or IRELAND, we were far from them, but they do not even get the paltry money judge if the plan be tasteful in principle and har- 
8 that we were opening a wound Which it which its failing funds permit the Society to offer. W cone out. 
e drew attention a 
come necessary to probe with more nye nf We have been told by those who profess to be con- e kar know to what we should compare fhe 
than would * agreeable to either ourselves or our | yersant with the private acts of the Council, that | outline of the ground itself, In some . 
patient. e are, however, driven, by irresistible although the honour is given to the masters the | not unlike that of Birkenhead Park, only from 
evidence, to the painful conviction that its constitu- money is given tothe gardeners, If this were true | the eastern, point for about one- -third of the whole 
tion is so, unsound as to render palliatives and | it would be an affront to the humble but honest length it is very much narrower. e Harrow 
alteratives useless; and that a eee Oh} wen in n question; for we place no exaggerated | road, slightly varying from a straight line, bonoe it 
its habits is indispensable. To. drop metaphor, ‘we value upon the feelings of an Irish gardener when ont the 2 n the ea 9 P abon to 
are forced to admit that the on which | we say that the e honour of success weighs more with third fiom Hie a point, the boundary wing 
th is conducted are as unworthy of ich he is to 
by a rapid rs until at the 8 extremity the 
le ground is bound 
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en range betw | ed by a gently curved line 
Tue money will not pay his running from the Harrow-road, southward. The 
remains except the honour, | view from the grounds over the southern pre 
here is an is most beautiful ; the varied hill oP dale, with the 
1 reason why the money is gis n up by Notting-hill Church standing o i 
oth 
master appropriates. 
true ; an 3 so, the won h we now] the Dublin mas terg in favour of their Irish gardeners. | object in relief, yield.a calm delight ! to 6 
feel is, not that the 1 Horticultural Society is Of them, the saying of the poet is ‘iterally fuliilled, In 27 55 respect this view reminds us very much 
pular and — 2 ruined, but that it should of that from Birkenhead Park. It requires but a 
— — exist. — to what do the charges of | —the money is ote Looe The Irish Horticultural | river in the distance to give the finishing charm to 
ondent amount? He not only confirms | Society’s mee o pay are of the same value as the scene—and the characteristics of the two views 
all that — — but he alleges poe A that the | Spanish o —— Bonds, or che Securities would then be alike. But there is this - 
. a the Council are at variance with with the infliction of ome the luckless French Rall. again. At Birkenhead you gaze upon laughing 
their declared rules, contrary to comm — sense, way owners are threa . The 2 the nature and pure art, with nothing in all that you see 
haughty, ——.— and dishonest. He does money of the Subscriber’ = the money of the | to make your spirits droop; at Kensal Green you 
pe indeed, use these particular he but they visitors to their shows, and they undertake to pay | cannot forget for an instant that you are standing 
ess the true meaning of his allegations. the winners of their prizes. But they break their | amid the dust ‘and ashes of fellow-men 
t the practice of the Council is at variance | word: the Council gets th e g 
with the declared rules of aN r is ae by | get nothing. Can anything be conceived more en- ably simple and ‘chaste ; and it should be ork in 
their conduct as to the all-important on of tirely scandalous „and diser aceful? These gentlemen mind that mre so much of that m 
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t them from among | tion exonerates them m from legal r espons — We | which the 1 could exercise their skill was 
they promise that the judges shall | understand that the Dublin Horticultural iety | very limited indeed. Along the whole of the 
3 en the subjects of is not a corporate body; and, if not, then any | boundary there runs a Tine of shrubbery, which on 
ibi Vis | member ` — the Acting Council may be selected by Harrow 
mpletely from the ear and i 
hus setting E homis up as | the cre road imagination as 
11 5 300 then, having first We ght to publish the names of this Irish | well as N eis the sight. Parallel with line 
5 of 
À ei s, they break | ee and we would do so, if it were 1 8 for one | shrubbery is a path round the 12. of the ground. 
2 rule, rush to “the place of exhibition reason; it would be unjust to Some of th e highly At ‘the —.— extremi mity 
ail peony another, make themselves masters of upon 2. pr iy in Le with as nee aE ae 
2 e hopes and wishes and interested expecta- gust as ourselves. No one can imagine that the | ward | 
pons of the parties — ach squad of Judges | whole of th the Council are — in acts of this 
ğa a ers, and then they pro- nature cogni- | ' 
— to their award. Is it possible that men, even | zant often, and that they will be as 3 muck sarprised | 
though they ti can tisfied | as we 
sa 
f the Judges | The Adinge't in question are those of a mere minority | brane 
immaculate, we Sgt would believe them to of the Council, interest exhibitors ; and 
on, a t this lamentable self-seeking it would not be fair to identify with them suck 
will le Frocduse disgust in the minds of lookers on; as the Duke of Lemster, Lord Cuarte 
Wonderful is it that it should end as it has Ticue Hamro, Mr. Lyons, and 
— p iving the pri m- men of hi 
Incredibl prizes to them- | noblemen and gentlemen of high honour and int 
A fear of ir may seem, we with- grity, by whose acts we be 
Kon the ‘Contradiction, that at the very last exhi- willing to be bound, We trust, however, that this 
I or a ize was a ours will and 
agai 
ed, het nber of the C duty, ei an end to these scandals | quiet 
bes Deed hardly insist upon such proceedings or to brak p the Society. They may depend 
wo, er common sense; they are much upon it that the public support them in any 
1 measures which be directed against the jobbers | of of s 
haughtiness of this Dublin Council is ludi- with whom Gay ne now associated, and that in placed. The difficulties to be met were not slight. 
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