THE 



1 EHIM1IMP1M SKDlHlf 



AND 



HORTICULTURE J0UEN1L, 



A MAGAZINE OF 



Horticulture, Botany, Agriculture, and the Kindred Sciences. 



Conducted by a Committee of Practical Gardeners. R .ROBINSON SCOTT, Editor, No. 48 

 S. Third Street, above the Girard Bank, up stairs. 



Vol. I.] 



Philadelphia, June, 1852. 



[No. 2. 





ACCLIMATISATION OF PLANTS. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Having emerged from a winter unusually rigorous, we look around 

 for the favorites to which we bade adieu last fall, in the hope of meet- 

 ing them again, re-invigorated by spring's genial showers and sunny 

 beams. Alas ! how many have been arrested in the path by scourg- 

 ing frosts and decomposing rains 1 And what are those which have 

 so perished--are they not the pampered offspring of tropical fields, the 

 nurslings of the conservatory, from whose hospitable roof they were 

 excluded for want of space, and left to herd with the more hardy deni- 

 zens of our colder climate 1 They are. They are the natives of soils 

 warmed by the same sun, but in different latitude and longitude — the 

 indigenous plants of countries possessing a different thermometrical 

 range from our own ; perhaps luxuriating at a greater or less eleva- 

 tion, fed by warmer or colder rains in the summer, and cheered by 

 stronger or weaker beams from the sun in winter; sheltered, perchance, 

 in winter by deeper and more constant snow, and dried in summer by 

 periodical winds, peculiar in their character and effect. How can we 

 marvel that such things are — " Can such things be, and overcome us 

 like a summer's cloud V — they can be, and are so fixed, and we must 

 bend to this disposition of things without a murmur. Let it not be 

 supposed that because some successful and enterprising gardener has 

 raised the stately Cedar of Lebanon away from its cherished hills and 

 loved streams, and transported from the region where the Great Teach- 

 er trod, the Paliurus aculeatus, emblem of his sufferings ; or brought 

 from Asia Minor the Chamcerops kumilis, which is known only as an 

 indigenous plant along the shores of the Mediterranean, and planted 



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f^it in the rock-work of temperate and humid Ireland ; or coaxed the^*) 



