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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1849. 



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i. and a good many Goose- 

 perished in the snow we hear men 

 crying that they are ruined They find a great part 

 of the Pear bios ;j y overlook 



ind it never 

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"What weather! What WTetched weather 

 April ! Did you ever know so bad a spring?" are 

 questions put on all sides, every one 1 

 they always do, that the bad weather 

 the very worst that has been ever fel 

 our perception of pain present, and : 

 forgetfulness of pain past. For ourselv* 

 admit London weather to have been unu: 

 nor the spring itself unusually unpropil 

 April 1849 we forget the snow and sleet, and heavy 

 rains of April 1848, especially since the latter fell 

 by night, and the former have fallen by day. No 

 doubt there has been more snow, and a lower tem- 

 perature in this present month of April than we 

 always have ; the season itself is backward, and 

 May 1849 will resemble April 1848. So much the 



Nothing is more disadvantageous to this country 

 than the nice comfortable warm springs which tender 



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a delicate race which the first cold night cuts off. 



the Atlantic breathes upon these n 



hing can be more agreeable. Bu I 



leasures carry penalties in their train, and the 

 iair promise of Chaucer's spring is too frequently 

 marred by an unpoetical May. There can be no 

 doubt that upon the whole such springs as we are 



EarouabJe? ^The 

 ie from under glass, and we shall 



.<rs have so lost 

 baffled by a. few cold days, which 

 annot feel. This, at least, is cer- 



and as the Horticultural Society's Gard< 

 are essentially for 



:rymen "withhold all information as to 

 propagation and management of common plants j: 



stances of such wrong-headedness may be found; 



but, upon the whole, nurserymen are among the 

 most intelligent and shrewd of tradesmen, and they 





they live upon. For orarae 1 



them extremely ready to fu 



vate use, an. can fairly be 



demanded of them. It is their first interest to do 



so, and they are not the men to neglect 1 1 





As h. wcvor. v.. i.iu-t suppose from the complaints 



eached us, that some dealers in plants 



1 be amiss to 



• m how entirely it is opposed to their 





not do so for the mere pnrpos 



of seeing it 

 reward him with the beautiful colours 







tion ; and if a buyer does 



hat good cultivation is, the s 



tell him. If he does not, and the pkni 

 the expectation formed of it, although the dis- 

 appointment may arise wholly from the buyer's 



the buyer is unconscious of his own defi- 

 ncy, and naturally throws the blame on the 

 •seryman. This may be of no account now and 

 n, but in the long run it has the effect of driving 

 rchasers away. The buyer says to his neighbour, 



would not advise you to deal at that nursery, 



I never could make the plants from it thrive. 

 ere must be something wrong with his stock, 



I have had no difficulty since I purchased of 

 . , a very civil man, who is always ready 



t would have been 



