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roots had been confined in pots before planting they were washed 

 from the old soil, the roots carefully extended, fresh soil placed 

 amongst them, freely watered a few times, and success was the result. 

 The most critical judges cannot now decide whether they were 

 seedlings or not. I will now close with one word more : The 

 whole art and energy has not been fully and entirely directed during 

 the time to the one grand achivement of a Pine tree evergreen — 

 pleasure ground and winter garden. There is a fruit and vegetable 

 garden with graperies, peach houses, forcing houses, pine pits, hot 

 and cold walls, and all their accompaniments kept in corresponding 

 order, flourishing and fruitful ; but these are every day affairs. — 

 The achievments in the grounds and the planting, their growth and 

 keeping in the short space of twenty years, has no precedent in 

 modern landscape gardening. R. buist 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Messrs. Editors: — Under this title I have read many articles in 

 the "Florist," and other Horticultural papers ; every one giving his 

 own views and opinions, but none it appears to me seem to have 

 taken the subject into earnest consideration. 



Horticultural magazines publish articles about Horticultural So- 

 cieties, horticulture, floriculture, strawberries, rural taste and its 

 mission, landscape gardening, cultivation of Indian corn, &c, and 

 of everything, even of Scoundrel the 1st, or Napoleon III, as you 

 please, the kinsman of that great man, who, in 1812, in a fit of 

 genius, forgot his army on the banks of the Muskawa, probably to 

 make hygiene experiments on the salubrity and healthfulness of 

 sleeping in the snow, on pillows of ice, eating horse-flesh, when it 

 could be got— but oftener refreshing himself with that compound of 

 azote and oxygen, which natural philosophers call air — air at a 

 temperature of 28 Q below zero, Fah. (don't you think, Messrs. Ed- 

 itors, this a very substantial food ? one does not want ice cream 

 after such a meal,) — or taking cool baths in the Beresina. See 

 what it is to be a man of genius ! He wanted only wings to be a 

 real genius of the air ; although he could fly without them ; as this 

 greatest man of the age perform the greatest flight on record.— 



