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So far, no special training is requisite for the 
an call for 
expect 
intended for an occupation which 
basis ought to be kept at school entirely until he 
is at least n During these five years, from 
nine to fourteen, there are many subjects which the 
ſuture gardener should learn in common with all 
other boys, and several others less generally neces- 
education. It is not necessary that he 
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called compound addition, aides & 
cation and division, and perhaps also the elements 
of book-keeping. 
Desirable as it is that every good citizen should 
know something of the history of his country, it is 
far more important for the budding horticulturist to 
get a good knowledge of geography. If this subject 
be well taught, he should get a clear grasp of the 
i ntries of th 
world, and of the general features of their vegeta- 
i nothing nee — trade 
outer, and merely political m 
again, though 3 an Se, ee 
= French nor German, and ati ss Gree 
essential, it is at least highly ae that i 
3 learn some Latin, considering the large part 
that language still . in matters botanical. So, 
though he need 
or expensive to 
introduce into any school curriculum, though it may 
at present be necessary in some cases in these 
subjects, and in some of those yet to be mentioned, to 
supplement the wide powers of our primary school 
teachers by some kind of peripatetic specialists, 
value, 5 is now agreed by 
authorities that, e 
an exposition of Connected general 
ot teats of various departante ts of science. In 
other words, I think * 
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soun: thods 
exact observation and inference, such as are clear] 
sst out in Prof. Huxley’s Introductory Primer, Th 
constitution and various of matter, the 
mechanical powers, the various forms of energy, the 
nature of the chemical elements, the principles that 
ewe much of the sciences of h 
meteo: eyv 
N Popular Ni 
Philosophy, be made intelligible to Pom boy sane 
twelve and fourteen. ‘here is no reason why every 
boy at the latter age should not understand the 
principles of a lever, a pulley, a thermometer, a 
barometer, a pump, and a still, and know something 
3 e een of air and water, and of the formation 
Bat while the education of every boy would be the 
better for the introduction into p at this stage of 
some physiogr aphy, he o be a gardener 
should have in addition some ids into elementary 
biology or Ea history, It is not by any means 
he should learn much as to the 
anatomy of a sae or a crayfish; but it is important 
that he should know something of the action of green 
emical requirements of 
other words, what he 
and some vegetable anatomy. 
easier to obtain specimens and to illustrate 7) 
ther 
is no insuperabl 
subjects we have discussed so far, in a town school, 
be a matter of surprise to some that no 
mention has hitherto been made of the study of 
botany. It is, of course, desirable for a gardener 
to acquire as full and detailed a knowledge of this 
science in all its branches, as his circumstances 
permit. A gardener must, in fact, necessarily be a 
career. The 
importance 
that every step in his advaneing knowledge ot this 
scientific basis of his life's work should be planted 
firmly on the sure basis of fact—in other words, that 
his botanical training should be n practical, 
gained from the study of plants rather than, or at 
least before, the study of books. Here comes in, 
with far greater force than in the question of 
elementary biology, the advantage of country 
training over that in towns. 
s difficult to maintain strict class- discipline in 
the open air, and it is important in no way to repel 
the young student from the scientific aspect of his 
work, For these reasons I strongly incline to the 
lan adopted with such signal success by the late 
Professor J. S. Henslow at Hitcham, of making 
botany an out-of-school or recreation study—at least, 
at the outset, 
I have found it possible to teach many of the dis- 
tinctive characters of leaves and flowers to children 
of five or six years old; but, judging from some o 
the Hitcham specimens given me by the Rev. George 
Henslow, most of his father’s pupils who actually 
collected, preserved, and named plants, were about 
eleven or twelve, Between this age and the time of 
leaving school an immense amount of valuable 
information on plant life, on the relations of plants 
to soil and to animals, and on the characters used 
in discriminating plan n be imparted by a 
competent and enthusiastic seedings G. S. Boulger, 
(To be continued.) 
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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
ec 3 M, Kral, n. sp * 
E lea bright green above, with 
Siar aaier ‘Meroalyphis markings pe ata 
scape is about 1 foot high, brownish and 
ean’ mi airs. The two bracts are very 
pripedium Nolterian 
3 y ngis acutis leviter defi 
ne omnino nec een nec ciliatis, basin v era spre 
nigro-purpureis pone marginem 
ulisque purpureis crebris, dimidio i itive 1 te 
urpureo- l 
io o: 
: i t r aaien stami nodio supra bipartito infra v. antice 
to gynostem end 
12 i, foli e 
S 1 inti, 8-9 n af folia n sae ** reticulata 
* è Wolter, Magdeburgensi dica 
different in size, gad much shorter than the 
brownish-purple ovary, The dorsal sepal i i onte 
The apex is bent 
E -black spots of Cypripedium 10% 
the upper margin the brownish warts are like tb 
of Cypripedium barbatum, but without the un 
and with numerous purplish dots on the disc; wiy 
the inferior half of the petals is bright ga 
without any markings. 
The lip is rather large for the size of the flower, | 
brown), paler behind and be 
very small purple dots, The column has a stan 
node quite different from that of C. Lowi; ü 
pally 
the basal part of the petals, in a: entirely diferit 
staminode, and in its smoothne 
It is perhaps a natural hybrid between C. ta 
a 
secret for the presen 
is not the native country o of Cypripedium 
For myself, A was struck by the reg 
i a we The flowers have all . 
grace of shee of „ Lowii, and are oa 
the same size. I may add that ee “a 
flowered at Nu in M. T. Wolter 5 
as a v om in sig? 
rmal C. Lowii. nun 
be hoped that the flower will increase in beanty in 
the plant has acquired more „ a Í 
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hybrida of C. Lowii, viz., C. r m, Roth ! 
(C. barbatum Crossi X Lowii), a 17. 
Rchb. f. (C. Lowii x A ee a 
the latter being perhaps similar in m many ree 
F. Krénzlin 
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GREENHOUSE | HARD- yodo 
al 27 P. 7. At ae 
— Although in the 
Myr’ mo 
sunny districts of the south, and 1 north 
he 4 e of the Gul re ta 
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as greenhouse pla 
ing being required by the plant, the donee 
to that which is found to suit the Polygald, 
For growing into a lar 9. 2 = 
munis is no doubt the best, 
a standard is required ; but if dw yee ne soa 
plants are preferred then I wou uld variety 
or the Box-leaved Myrtle ea v 5 will, 
ositions make handsome 
— which will flower tay d . 3 — a | 
Farther south than London (a 
these varieties on walls; the — pac e 72 
by them in winter was supplied by Po Mn, | 4 
them when the frosts became seve Ui a 
or as it used to be called, Eugenis $ 
