342 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. 



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\)t florist anb Iforiiratotal Sfonmal. 



We expected, when we wrote the editorial in our last number, on 

 the sayings and doings of gardeners, to receive some very severe on- 

 slaughts from those who may at first sight deem themselves offended. 

 But to any candid reader of our pages, we put the question, can any 

 gardener who does his duty, feel offended at our blaming those who 

 do not % Our correspondent "Anthophilus" is a gardener, and a for- 

 eigner : he is a man who works hard, and is acknowledged by men of 

 judgment here, to be one of the best representatives of his profession 

 in the country. 



The matter seems to stand thus : The " Horticulturist," in an edi- 

 torial article, was very severe on foreign gardeners, mentioning espe- 

 cially '' Faddy j" this was followed by "Jeffreys" in the August num- 

 ber, who enlarged upon "imported empirics," "professors," &c, in a 

 very savage way. Our correspondent "Anthophilus" disapproved of 

 calling any one a "Paddy," saying that "if ignorance and vanity can 

 be personified under the name of " Paddy," in his opinion "Paddies" 

 can be found in all quarters of the globe." In our editorial we took 

 up his remark, and suggested that foreign gardeners could readily over- 

 come such prejudices by showing how well things can be done, in 

 place of talking about them ; and for this, which every candid man 

 must acknowledge to be a fair statement of the case, we receive the 

 blame of men who do themselves wrong, in classing themselves with 

 those whom the shoe fits. Is the position of a horticultural paper to 

 be this, that no fair statement of anything must.be made, but we should 

 pursue a narrow, "piddling" course, in continual fear of treading upon 

 somebody's toes, (and it is astonishing how prevalent corns are,) and 

 thus languish along in respectable inanition I We think not. The 

 gardeners of this city know whether we are favorable to them, or not ; 

 and we venture to say that we receive their entire approbation ; and 

 when those in other cities know us better, they will acknowledge that 

 we are " a right clever ft- How." No change has come over the prin- 

 ciples of the " Florist," it stands where it always did, and we hope by 

 a manly course, to merit the respect of both amateurs and gardeners. 



H.CH. 



In the "Gardener's Chronicle" of Nov. 27, is an account of the re- 

 sults of experiments by Mr. Ville, of the uses and effects of ammonia 



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in hothouses. Introduced in such small quantities as 4-lO,00Oths, in I 



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io-ht or ten days, the influence of the gas becomes perceptible, and ^ 

 »m that time increases. "Leaves which were in the beginning pale, ^j 



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