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r^ ters to rights, this requires time and patience and labor, for undoing *%) 

 bad work is harder than to begin afresh; but if the new comer finds 

 the tools spoilt and others lost, so that he has double difficulties to 

 contend with, he becomesjiiscouraged and perhaps settles down into 

 a jog-trot and just "gets along." So we say to the amateur, see at 

 the start that the place is well furnished with tools; your gardener if 

 worth anything, will keep them in order, but to do this properly, he 

 must have a tool house, where he can put them away in a dry clean 

 place; he should also have a neat convenient potting shed where 

 shifting could be done, and soils and pots kept, and unpacking attended 

 to without causing a lifter in the houses. Where a gardener finds his 

 work appreciated, and sufficiently noticed by his employer, he will 

 feel encouraged to renewed exertion; but it is so often the case that 

 his best skill receives a mechanical u very pretty," that he must often 

 wonder why people have gardens at all. We wish to do our best to 

 increase the taste for horticultural pursuits, and to this end we would 

 have people put themselves in the way of learning more about plants. 

 The best means of doing this is to attend the meetings of horticultural 

 societies, where flowers and fruits are exhibited, and talked about ; 

 and as we have a well established and respectable society here, all 

 who wish to improve their opportunities should become members of 

 it. At each monthly meeting is a fine display of various plants, and 

 fruits and vegetables, and a certain amount of information is to be 

 gained by attending to the proceedings. The society also possesses a 

 fine horticultural library; the opportunity of reading this is sufficient 

 inducement for the payment of the small sum required of members. 



Pennsylvania Poultry Society. 



This Society held its exhibition lately on the lot next the High 

 school, running from Thirteenth to Juniper street. The coops were 

 placed under canvass, and very many persons visited the show during 

 the three days it continued, although Friday was a very wet one. 



About fifteen hundred fowls were exhibited by Dr. James M'Clin- 

 tock, the President of the Society, Samuel C. Radford, Dr. James T. 

 Crabbe, David Davis and R. A. Smith, of West Philadelphia ; Reuben 

 Hagy and Samuel A. Bumstead, Roxborough ; Harmon Osier, William 

 Chancellor, L. Wister, R. Fraley, Germantown ; Richard Cartwrighf, 

 North Penn ; F. G. Wolbert, L 7 rankford ; Peter Barker, Penn District ; 

 Stacy Wilson, Kensington ; William Leonard, Dr. H. J. Brown, 

 George Simler and William Krouse, Philadelphia city; and Aaron 

 Clement, John B. Perry, John Simler, R. Wister, Jr., and James 

 \ Killen, Philadelphia county; Dr. D. L. Heist, Blue Bell, Montgomery j 

 Cl county, and John S. Lippincott, Mount Holly, N. J. 



ft) The collection embraced the pure Irish and Japanese Game Fow r ls ; C@ \ 



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