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5. Upon the Culture of Celery. By T. A. Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 



Pres. 



What the Council could discover in this paper to render it 

 worthy of publication, we are utterly at a loss to know. Per- 

 haps it was quite enough for them that it was written by the 

 President. All that we can gather from it is that Mr. Knight 

 "has, during several seasons, supplied" his "celery plants much 

 more copiously with water than is usually done, and always 

 with the best effects." There is, indeed, as usual, a few words 

 liable to be construed into a reflection on the skill and conduct 

 of gardeners, which, we must take the liberty of stating, come 

 with a particularly bad grace from Mr. Knight, after his 

 signal failure in attempting to surpass British gardeners in 

 the culture of the pine-apple. With the highest respect for 

 Mr. Knight, justice to the practical gardener will not permit 

 us to forget his premature vaunting on the subject mentioned, 

 his indirect recommendation of illiterate gardeners, and the 

 injury which his papers on the pine-apple might have done 

 to the practical man. We would wish the Council of the 

 Horticultural Society to recollect these things also, and to be 

 more careful in future as to what they publish. 



The services which Mr. Knight is calculated to render hor- 

 ticulture, are not of that kind which ought to lead him into 

 rivalship with the practical gardener. It is not necessary that 

 a curious and philosophic experimenter should be able to suc- 

 ceed in everything which he attempts. Mr. Knight may lead 

 others to grow good crops, without being able to grow any 

 one good crop himself. He has already rendered the greatest 

 services to vegetable culture, by his physiological discoveries, 

 and we only regret that he should seem to wish to add to his 

 own merits, by detracting from those of his more humble 

 brethren, who are very willing to benefit by his writings, but 

 who, we fear, are not very likely ever to gain any thing by his 

 example. 



6.. Report upon the new or rare Plants which jlowered in the Gar- 

 den of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, between March, 

 1825, and March, 1826. Part I. Tender Plants. By Mr. John 

 Lindley, F.L.S. Garden Assistant Secretary. 



Trees or Shrubs. — Mimosa latispinosa. An elegant bush from 

 three to four feet high, the stem and petioles clothed with white 

 aculei. From the Isle of France in 1822. Stove; cuttings or 

 seeds ; loam, peat, and sand. — Passiflora obscura. A small 

 inconspicuous species, from seeds from the N.E. coast of South 

 America, by Mr. George Don, in 1823. — Ixbra rosea. By far 



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