HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 15 



He flew (4000 ages contemplated him,) from the pyramid of Cheops 

 across the Mediterranean to the Paddiest nation in the world. 



I crave indulgence, Messrs. Editors, for making this digression on 

 such small things as great men, but if Dr. Lindley indulges himself 

 in talking politics in his Gardeners' Chronicle, we may perhaps also 

 do so in this free country, when discussing horticulture, which makes 

 laurels to grow to crown the head of human butchers, generally 

 called Heroes. 



I was saying that horticultural magazines write on gardening, 

 botany, &c; some few of the public read these writings with as much 

 attention as we generally read the advertisements of sales of second 

 hand clo tiling or furniture. Horticultural societies are daily estab- 

 lished, one-tenth of the members attend the meetings and sham- 

 exhibitions of these societies, where the prettiest and most interesting 

 productions are certainly not those of the vegetable kingdom. 



While I am in the vein, will you permit me to take for my sub- 

 ject your own Horticultural Society, as being the oldest and most 

 important in the Union ? You do not say yes. Well, let us see, 

 let us be men, let us acknowledge our own infirmities. I said at the 

 commencement of this, that horticulture and horticultural societies 

 are not considered earnestly either by amateurs or by gardeners,, 

 with the exception of a few of each party ; this indifference to those 

 institutions so useful to both, arises from many very different causes. 

 The indifference of amateurs comes principally from the disap- 

 pointment they often experience in their gardeners ; the indifference 

 of some of the last comes simply from their own indifference — but 

 some, and these are the minority in number, but the majority in 

 talents, are indifferent, or rather, to be jtist, are dissatisfied, per- 

 haps disgusted, to see that their employers are never satisfied at 

 whatever they do — want to have their own way about everthing, 

 and yet make the gardeners responsible when things do not turn 

 out well ; or if satisfied, do not express their satisfaction for fear 

 their gardeners should think too much of themselves, and might 

 ask a little advance in wages, which in this case would be very 

 natural, having the sentiment of their own worth ; they are dissatis- 

 fied and become indifferent when they see that good plants, difficult 

 to cultivate and well grown get no nore encomiums or better awards 



