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(#-) learn to ride, to the gymnasium to learn to work, seems to him re.-® 

 Cy itiarkabie ; and his opinion of learning farming out of books is not a 

 / very favourable on. But a model farm where scientific instruction is 

 combined with practice must needs be an excellent school for the son 

 of the faimer, and for the city boy, who has a mind to lead a more 

 healthy life than his brothers. 



Foreign Trees in Landscape Gardening. Although our own trees 

 do not receive the honor due them in their own country, we must say 

 that we agree with Mr. Meehan, that in constructing a landscape we 

 must use what best serves our purpose without asking any narrow- 

 minded questions about its origin. The rare beauty and adaptiveness 

 to ornamental gardening of many of the newly introduced evergreens 

 is acknowledged by every one of taste. 



Looking at your editorial in connection with the clergyman's ad- 

 vertisement, which you copy from the Gardener's Chronicle, we are 

 reminded of the very great difference between what a gardener ex- 

 pects to do in this country and in Great Britain. The advertisement 

 seems to us here, rather farcical ; but it Was inserted in the columns 

 of the most respectable horticultural journal in England. We would 

 like to see the man professing to be a gardener here, who would milk 

 a cow or do general house work ; we have heard of their taking care 

 of a horse, but we recollect in one instance, the horse was exercised 

 to the neglect of the garden. No one here expects a gardener to 

 Wash off the pavements, or to do work which generally falls to the 

 lot of the house servants ; but it would seem that in England they do 

 a great many things which they are unwilling to do here*. Our 

 opinion of the matter is this, that if a gentleman wishes to have a 

 good garden, and plant houses, he should get a good gardener; and if 

 the gardener is industrious, he Will find quite enough to do in taking 

 care of his department; nevertheless, we think that a gardener loses 

 nothing by accomodating his master in such things as are of little 

 moment to him, but which may save much expense in keeping up 

 a place. 



Achievements of Horticulture. — Contrasting the upright conserva- 

 tories (whose large brick pillars excluded the light) of twenty years 

 ago, with the light and graceful span-roofed or curvilinear structures 

 of the present day : and the few orange trees,- and laiKUstinus and 

 oleanders (we beg their pardons, Neriuma) with the graceful, rare and 

 curious inhabitants of our houses now, we may indeed say that great 

 things have been achieved. But, far as we have advanced, we have 

 still agreat way to go; in science, especially in naturalscience, there 

 I is no perfection, there is always a future stretching away before - the ) 

 C^ explorer, always something new. What is new to.-day, will be far Z$ 

 (•^ miliar on the morrow, and difficulties present themselves only to beGA 



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