388 THE 
Imperial Society among 106 ne so that | 
p if Linge there be, is on nglish, 
the Fre side. It is, however, аам: 
that the deed may hay 
e 
1S 
npossi le that everything exhibited 
may "n deserved some mark of recognition. 
at least was the case last Saturday, with a very — 
ration ete 
a hee en 
w is 33 
yi 
We have to — for on Fresca of the 
кабын to t on to Oregon, — 
the Edinbu 
es nobi 
ponderosa, monticola, and Tiu in Pim 
good condition. We have ours n cones of 
three new species of Pines in this ойнайын, but we 
are not informed whether there are seeds of them 
or not. 
GARDENERS’ t L BENEVOLENT 
INSTITUTION, 
Tun Anniversary Festival x this Charity was celebrated on 
i uto "^ the London * eK рар the — 3 2 
SAMUE Esq. M.P., ipported by more t 
100 distinguished mans Bev and f friends of the Society. 
The tables, as on former occasions, were decorated with a pro- 
©. 
F 
GARDENERS 
the 
its — 
ai es and the humblest homes. 
of the poorer parts of London 
—a region reminding the 
re striking о perceiv e the 
lowliest abodes a  Gerani blooming, or some ther | i 
symptom of a te for the beauties of creation, which 
ould only T —— ulged by those classes through the 
medium of the g art. That art was — aa English. 
ner's T 
In no part of de Continent, excepting, perhaps, in Hol iene , Was 
nythi t all dem —4 neat аза + cl 
cott 
Sich d in i gardening led to neatness, symmetry, an 
greater 8 rts of ойпого апа manufactures, had contributed to 
the unrivalled grandeu n 1 rs.) The 
DNA of the gardeners art was also sh DY the per- 
manence with which it retained its hold of the affections to the | 
last. ife fon 
. The man we in — y life ha ad been eid ardening, 
although immersed for a time in the struggles a аа mpetitions 
of ZI Ду, always 8 with be у to his natural taste 
for hor Our exhibitions of fruit and flowers enjoyed 
fancy for p asional 
exotics. At one time — public sate indulge the whim o 
eeding Cochin China fowls; at an оше a polka mania might 
bre 
seize them, and old ade young, grav e turning. 
— tothe ane of — cornet- piston — 
rning them 8, y might set their dinin 
Pini (laug parity but £m they might i 
harmless —€— — always came — in ә — run to р 
c as a ect they could never exhaust. (Cheers.) The 
nge of mir erc was oF the widest character; with the example 
of y^ J tees Paxton before 5 he was justified i in saying, that 
and tabl 
and 
i e most eminent gardeners in the country), was of the hi ighest 
character. Itis I — to = proprietors of the establishment 
e in comple ete accor 
accessories. 
ce ward to with wem mum? 
Society and its operations 4 more widel 
— 7 — =A 2€ mea ns of зеке Бук ity.—the health | 
us they litera w of thei 
in 
ir vini 
ned 8 ich 
which they were indebted for 
T, R. N., and AN Sig JOHN 
ne hand it approae e co rr of the highest art. 
In che gardens that u t ace they would next 
year have an oppor p seein ng the ‘height to which the 
se — "of psi con оша attain, for there, under the 
auspices of Sir Josep 2 it would be elevated int 
th ignity of a ne other hand, 
had only to turn tied Me. Mechi (cheers), t 
show that the agricultura might — a TE uk: of the 
T ner's book. Agri e must s be t ainstay or 
s country, but to sg rien on N Ty Жон be со 
‹ абба with the care, the > assiduity, and — rea attention of 
Ё he gardener. (Cheers. he science, anged fron 
епи heights of Parnassus to the nar: of "ipte "Hall Fate. 
t 
t 
t 
and арести of the w cing clas 
he а of gardening — be selected as at the bend of 
trastin the present 
of 
his own early days; when, promotion bein ng the rem mim — 
the standing toast — 1 the officers of the Navy was “ А bloody 
war and a si 
roposed ealth of his Grace the 
ys 
The CHAIRMAN — the 
Duke of Devonshire, the 3 e ths Institution, which was 
i the Chairman 
t 
regard e Duke of Devonshire. His Grace ha 
— бл. the opportunities a afforded — * his (eem station for 
the good "um € of h 
men wd and had the: merca p» pl p T romote 1 бару x^ 
harmonious feel ings which had excited so berieficial an influence 
on all class E Cheers.) He had pA that his distinguished 
end Sir deed ave been present t to асе - 
gr would ha 
ut h d 
The grea at discoveries o of Californi. ia 
the 3 path; he hoped the 8 would never be seen again 
when a man would seek for profitable employment without being 
able to obtain it; but the great ores needful (and in which this 
Society — er | prove most beneficial) was to — into = minds 
of t rdener the conviction 
. — — те — of the highest order. ‘(Che ers.) 88 
ing as he did most inadequately the gifted chairman of the last 
‚пе evert: rthe eless, — 
A spring up ш 
contd 18 — e 
at once propose the t 
wo 
res ge none ref them 
co — fom their Ke e eem he would oast 
y to the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution." 
(rent a 2 e.) 
owes e Hon. Mr. Justice HALIBURTON proposed the health of the 
of the Duke of Devonshire and Sir Joseph, Paian i ind utu 
tory woull say of those eminent individuals, that while the 
had shown that in the —— ranks" of British industr Ty 
ha elo да, 
there might lurk the Ly M a Mic el Ango a Raffaelle, 
bok did not sre the s a Medici to patronise 
ach 
The — “Prosperity to the Gardeners’ 
Royal 55 explained briefly the origin of the 
Association in reni in owe charitable e feelings of a few individuals 8, 
who founded it ragin its of self 
and features 
eners 
the 3 was АННАН for in 
ners, w wages 
evident that the mber now u 
funds, 33, though considerable in itself, жаз quite inconsider- 
able! in comparison tot they mig 
meum o 3 he might say t that t they | m 
occasion "wq merely been engaged in аке ate oce ned bes 
had d 
isiting England as he did, only at intervals of about 
was al s astonished at the impe dee е Su esr 
literary, 'scien tific, humane, religious, prac and e ental, 
which adorned the metropolis; — amongst thous he | had. deti 
as much satisfaction from the v € Benevolent ei ee 
— from any. The gardeners students of Nature; he 
tudied Nature in 5 others Preferred to “study | the wild 
— in the 28 Garden 
gerie of which the Ch airman was a 
P Ind where the — 
done this? The Garde: 84 ar ope tha the benefits conferred 
про community by the gardeners, and the advantages of 
this tion, he regarded its title as а misnomer; 
it should have been called a society for promoting the 
taste, enlarging mind, and fining all classes 0 
society. (Cheers.) The Chairman was connected with the 
new Crystal Palace. (H hear.) had raised t rystal 
Palace in Hyde Park, and was about to raise its successor? - Not 
= re E them, —— pu 
E trust and confidence by respectin, 
re barricaded with t wai! 
terrors of i 
— -traps and spring- guns, what cou ald 2 expected of m 2 — 
brutality. (Cheers) His E go Bh as for those w 
a good omes and an agreeable evening, but 
the 
and as God had given t Lidia a seventh ‘aay of 
great ted moj Er! becanse he he believed that 
в own re 
rest, that. portion ol it not devoted to his worship should be Pins 
ind, in breathing the fresh air, and contemplating the glories of 
mem — 
by = dinners a at which pos n o 
the wealthy and the noble, to the zi who, by 
8, or by the equally tiga 3 
ias cac тае awe 8 mble 
ont pee and 
Be was ade eile арй и and worked together fo for the « common good. 
occurred 21 thevery thho Wis ower classes had been гїзїп 
in the scale of that knowledgo. p wer; and when the 
extending mselves most | 
appre- 
sphere, met at 
by songs, 
А of a — бтен: 
dinners. (Cheers.) These 
als; but their m 1 8 ppi 
v 
o 
"lie 
all tet by pa — 
sort oi 
ble 
ys h hoy its 
ave its weight 
„ n the best s senie of the ris as 
Our first parents were ilton 
dien of таг фа е 
dài peor 2 
жете: and of art. с cheers. The Chairman, as a promoter 
of the Crystal Pala «96 as the advocate of. this eue 
grati ind 
his кеш. (Cheers). 
The са RMAN, in acknowledging the D v —— if he had 
before sad; occasion to regret the comp: n himself 
and the Chairman of last year, he must feel Жора усе to 50 
back the hand of onths, and store the 
а 
Although inadequa 
part of the present dpud that so long as d sterling 
sense and humour were dear to the hearts of 3 so long 
the booi which he had tld op would be “ Household Words’ 
in the home of every ed 
and he 
busy Ti and oe place 
was ity in which гей stood 
with ы: bar unmixed satisfaction 
an 
ny; 
^ assed an active and 
portant че», the 
that he coni А 1 
f the people, and 
n honour to be е humble and 
(Cheers.) However, - 
— —— 
and gay, wer 
—next year, instead be 
[JUNE 18, 
upon wh — our 7 were made 
, He had . 
always 
qu 
ia 
himself and the m pee tors (an 
the em, Mr. Anderson), th 
аре — 
{һе © Crystal Pal lace. (Re — 
. JAMES THOMPSON propos: — the en 
Halibür rton, or, as the Romans — i their heroes — 
— sae 
achievements rather than their names, of 
emi OM eers, 
CE HALIBURTON briefly replied, 
he ү It Le Pon more difficult it wat 10 ua nee 2 
for others; and, pide pU tiny the lawyer’ S proverb, that 
M that t plea ads his e has 8 fool for his clients (Cheers) 
he CHAIRMAN mE the health of Mr, 
ore who Ep hog the 8 and read a LN 
nthe whole to about жч — 
subscriptions; amoun 
the following names :— i 
* 
The Duke of D hi ss Capt. AT. 243 
21 0 — Bohn, Esq. |, 10 
8. Laing, Esq., Cha airman 21 Lessrs Ne ie 
А. Anderson, Beini- 10 10 J. J. Biandy, Eoo o>) ae 
Sir Joseph Paxton ‚ 10 10 | J. J. Mechi, Esq. hi 5.5 
Right Hon. L. Saliran. 10 10 Ker, Esq. ER 
Lewis Loyd, 0 10 | Messrs. Wrench and Son 5 5 
Hore —— Esq. 10 10 | T. Grissell, Esq. >. 45 
Sigismund Rucker, Esq. 10 10 | James Thompson Esp 5 б 
me Correspond ; 
Wearing-ou [r. Masters’ 
observations on this subject, T th strongly 
corroborate the Knighti OTE * 
belief in Ae spb eae let пудов, say E 
h som 
what " 
ontroversy whic Ei 3 
the 8 ‘stn, ы 
alpable Nature 
may, 
rt of your Paper (and in which 1 t arit 
bout the propriety of pruni 
aides 
part 
share), a 
flori ar's Defiance, 
effor it proved оні: in short, the sort м. 
€ exin This reflection, which Ф 
sulte the belief that Leuchar’s Defiance $ 
period of its existence, and had — 
reached r* natura 
peare 
a g C оп, а 
matters, he e me the history ". a very 
he had raised from seed. It was greatl 
by his frienda, p was widely distribu buted other lost îy 
after a series of years, one lost it, and a nother 
it was found to be extinct. These as proofs df 
the correctness of ce M night's pr the date 
о апу tree is to be reckoned from the time it germinated 
a seed; that pe Я Ъу red 
se more 
mparab 
e it by the 
multipiention. "But ks t the original a 
snd a moment's safes tion on e 
will t tell that. EE Бене was 7 des td 
xu 
endure for e 
xe Golden: Pippin to Cedar Se ts 
the true originator, and hence the 
5 йө of fi to fill places of 
mired kinds, whose loss we may ig d 
cannot restore them. Quercus, —— Will you à 
rrect an 
arb Wine. 
Ро (о Мг. ЕУ for his 
but in the ar 
in ticle Rhubarb vh 
set him right, — directions fo 
does n scientifie or chemical : 
By the ends, there 18 D^ 
unworthy cam oe M abe rte 
would rather be viewed in conne on with the Crystal Pala 
Those occupations in life which nae t the most b satisfactio 
