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before. I had myself forgotten the old 
not give the name of the candidate whose fitness very beautiful bulbous plant, the following note from ciate till 
k proper recipient of the pension. - a correspondent in China may be of interest :—“ The saw him get into the wood, when I auspected mher 
knew nothin the matter personally, m temperature they grow in varies from in the 3 would finally land. Next, he — a small 
object in writing w. sets have cleared * any — height of summer, when they are resting, to 55° to supply about 10 feet Paget about 50 yards from 
that might arise in the minds of those subscribers 60° in winter, when they are growing; sometimes for reservoir, The person who made the rese ervoir said 
who, like myself, are notin touch with the committee. a ys in January we go to 40°, or lower, but there could be no mater on, owing to the lie of the 
The difficulty might be obviated in the future by the that is for but a short time. When they make their strata, Ke. Dig where I tell you, Boe John; 
age ach candidate began his gardening career leaves there is absolutely no rainfall, or next to and they 5 on * dry rock at 
n the note that is appended to the n ey rest it is our wet season. Icisa About 2 feet down this rock, howeve eh ed r 
names on voting papers. I kno wit is necessary the most lovely thing. I think it the most beautiful up in a teady volume, and filled the 
committee should reside e an easy distance of bulbous plant I have ever seen.” That theabove bole up. A pipe was led into the reservoir, and in 
London, though I have often thought that by issuing treatment followed in this country will lead to dry summers that pipe is still about the only one 
voting papers to all subscribers, those residing at a success is, I think, most probable t Kew last that continues to trickle. Ia this way he disco 
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distance from London might Bard an nesa on of September they flowered a number of balbs received, many runnels under the ground, the existence of 
joining in the selection of the committee. In say- when at rest, from China. These are now grow- some of which were known to the natives, the 
his, wish to infer that ing as freely as Narcissi in a temperature of 55° not suspected. man, who was ver 
either the se gar or past committees have not done I have also plants in a like temperature growing sceptical at ky outset, set the man into his garden 
their duty well, The great success of the institution, well, which, when their foliage dies down, I sball alone, telling him to take casts across his lawn and 
espec ially d uring the past fifteen years, precludes shut up in a sunny frame, and water sparingly. The shrubberies, Pore see what he could find, 
the very idea of such being st the case, Any little woes case equamigera is, I faney, to be grown clergyman then went into the vicarage, turned on 
efforts I have made under the same conditions as Amaryllis Belladonna, el his water-taps, and watched the man from 
to become subscribers, have been done on the fol- An nyh on it is quite hardy. Lycoris sanguinea is a of his upper windows. When he hai 
lowing grounds, viz, 1, self inte st; 2, duty; and comparatively unknown plant, I believe, and the finish ed, it was found that ad pegged 
last but least, human sympathy. There is, I drawing shows a fine spike of very beautiful orange- out with perfect accuracy the line of the main-sewer 
think, a better appreciation of its merits abroad than red flowers. R. W. Wallace, Colchester from the vicarage, laid deep, consisting of 9-inch 
the d , and I s that in time eve sanitary-pipes, but of which i . 
gardener = of the name “a feel it to ia duty PROFITABLE TOMATO CULTURE.—At the close existed above-ground. He told the vicar he was not 
to become a subscriber. I often wish it were possible of 8 1 season, ns crops of Tomatos the first of his cloth he had converte d, for he had 
for n gardeners to see the caine with are few and far between. Scarcity of sun and cold operated blindfolded before Bishop Magee of Peter- 
appended notes of each candidate that are issued winds nnd disastrous in man a aaa especially in borough, and convinced him, receiving a gift from 
annually to subscribers only. How few of us who cold houses. The following description of a good the bishop for his cleverness. Oace, when here, he 
read these notes can say for certain that our crop shows what can be done with son ane if exhibited his powers before Mr. Ewing, late Curatorof 
own names, or the names of those dear to us, may not care and skill are practised. The plants were grown the Sheff Garden, who was much surprised, 
be on some future list? Fivepence per week for by a friend of mine, in a cold hou use ae south, John i is a plain, unaffected working : man, 
fifteen years does not seem a large sum to ensure us Along the front of the Be were ten 3 who hae worked at his business from nearly the 
£20 or £16 per year, as the case may be, should we (I think the size was No. 0 ; into these ‘po ote t Land’s Ead to Dundee, to my knowledge, and now 
need it, I am sometimes met with the remark, the Plants were put. The plants were after wards does nothing else I believe. He has no explanations 
pension is a s one. reply is “ nothing” topdressed, and the denies in which they suc- to offer, and attempts none, and good-naturedly 
p. 
would be smaller ; and in these days of cheapness 5 was such that had I not seen them myself zubmits to have liberties taken with him that 
erally, £20 a year well expended, will go a long ould have d he total scientists would not stand. I have seen tmo 
way in purchasing the real needs of life for an aged weight of frait yielded an average of 29} lb. for each gentlemen holding the ends of the “twig” clos 
couple living, say, in a small cottage in the country. pot of two p pais or nearly 15 lb. per plant. Isaw £o John’s hands, and a third holding his hands to see 
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I know something of the many calls on a gardener’s them in J aly, a > each plant was then carrying 10 to lar force, and the “ twig” 
in bringing up and educating a large family; 12 lb. of fruit. “My friend's 1 e bae, —— ‘ni Jumping, like a live thing at certain 
and the serious illnesses and consequent expense we he sows late, and the crop a time was hardly spots abov Wet seasons are the 
are all of us liable to, I also know something of at its 1 awe, the wight of the N 0 side there is then water every- 
payments to benefit societies, insurance, Ke. Yet colouring fruit I — not forget for „ a a permanent supply may not be found # b 
in my —_ opinion, there is nothing on the board The variety was a earefully-relected sample O iniy. Bios e years back, when there was some 
slag koai he saute i fey tan bP Ecomega T Horsford’s Prelude, which in size weer 8 in * Standard about Mullins“ 1 
subscriber to our good old institution. He should isa a deep crimson, and the flavour, re fully ripe, if T eaid = Se r =s experienced engineer it 
ey vi pole we to bring its claim before those able is equal to the best dessert fruit in cultivation, Of cane a Boge eee md o things 
elp, whom he comes ren in his journey through ew more varieties grown, including Challenger, lish? 
life. Should u non-subscribi kent kiah 8 Comet, Oldfield Gem, and a variety o 2 Perfe aca: that science with all its aids could not — 
read this note, I appeal to tt 2 either Challenger stood best the test of a bad season. J. G 
a eg or life members at the very first Pettinger, Strawberry Dale Nursery, Harrogate. 
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HEAVY GALE.—The gale of the him and his friends, and pit himself 1 
22 2d ult. caused great destruction in this an n t an invisible water-course above 
TETY I our as come owe (York), 7 i ge tr Booty Blin, and ground, where th y could find it, half-way but 
and ai Clayton, on p. 782. Lime, and doing 1 damage to the roofs of ere and London; but the challenge wa 
quotes the Rule III, section 2. The rule dwelling and glase-h . It was preceded bya an closed the correspondence, Oa anoa 
runs thus: Head-gardeners or their foremen are sudd l cf the deren, of 14 inch, within twelve Occasion, a frequent and able c men ur 
À nsion after twenty years’ service. ich it again rose as quickly, with fine the Gardeners’ Ch roposed, in ons o 
Now, which end of a man’s life does he begin to be mild 3 till the 287b, when there was a renewal contemporaries —in relation to 10 LE „ 
a gentleman a gardener? would any gentleman take of the storm, but without the violence of the 22ad; Mallins should exhibit his a a i 
a man for his gardener who had followed the trade and since there have been n experienced i vy e wow. great flower show—that if he P (aitinn) fail 
of a butcher or barber until he had reached the age storme, wind S. 1 barometer ranging m prie 
of twoscore years, or — any gardener take a from 28 50 to 30-20. . Fad postor. I off-red to act as e 
similar person for his foreman, or any nurseryman Mullins and this party, even on these terms, with . 
such a man as an assistant-seedaman? an alien THE DIVINING-ROD AT WORX.—““ Eaquirer » aud additional proviso, however, that if Mallins por i 
tradesman of the above age might as well seek to be others, eee one might suppose to be interested in ceeded the rod should be laid on the other a 
an assistant-chemiat as an ass myst ina such m seem to give the “twig” and its back, and that I laid it on, but my friend has ge 
to the rule, a po ing — e pedair application the cold shoulder, considering my challenge for several years 2 
3 e, 8 market - gardener must have cultivated I remember a trained ons gel accustomed to not Tae He will no doubt read this, and may 
ve “oi of kor twenty . Mr. Banister reservoir 88 an item ng con- have something to say now. A little book has 
Tie Gee that, ot T have been. much misinformed. 2 to attend, but with undlaguised contempt, tog published . — Mullins, in which his 1 
7a state e er is this: Mr. Banister was one of John Mallins trials with the divining- in providing estates with water is attested by num 
shoemaker Gas hu... as considerably over forty rod, and I shall never frase the face of the of well-known gentlemen. J. Simpson, Wortley. 
sa ee He commenced to grow a few man when he saw Mullins ste stepping over the ground 
plants for sale. He prospered ime 
failed dieastronaly. Pe wo of hi for a time, and then with his rod, and marking out with his heel the THE LINDLEY LIBRARY.—An exhibition of 1 
is igo me are not mains, branches, and drains, as if they had been i i i i eason Why 
ners men, paid a guinea each tothe ditches. “Poor Mr. k anid poh Ape open and pictures is a new idea, but there is nor pie 
a igri i — e spec- it shoul : at attempt might 
ds of the 3 Royal Benevolent Toate * I was poy for 8 J = Malling, —— RDN ka por 8 8 117 Victoria se : 
t b ‘ 3 th ltr, is one o successful operators, and But f the Lint 
ta nee eae a oom w influence has been employed on the estate here and in the Libr. Sat cami that we — know what 
a oy 8 fon -maker who neighbourhood several times. I conducted him, and to exhibit. I have two books before me as 
Eu pe 1 a eee p bi 8 — esr present a number of gentlemen. We Paradise Retrieved, plainly and fully dem monstrating 
ension, D. 8 eee ne a arge . ~ a scant gathering ground, the most beautiful, durable, and beneficial m 
sid eir and John sent 
position, to prospect the ground, I of 
i oa acy tng pe e voice ae ar 2 a 3 twig cut stay piety Scarlet rely, pg boring agg E and others pe 
N „Member ý depth d ith treatise 
— ; z Committee, Herthfield Nursery, re in a dry field, iad cunt it * a ad Mellons g" Let A A * 8 1 Collins, ai: 
j ox 20 3 ord 83 a ay aey * kei 4 et of . in 1 Sa 
YCORIS AUREA. —O wing to the difficulty that — or servare Repertam. Claudian over 
has tebe ox aha, en ae 3 where a spring existed. This he did, going the Maypol Strand. 1 — Collins neve 
in the past in flowering this forward alone on ground where he had never id — drer dyes Pog deg on ager — s Melons, p. p. 106. 
