HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 365 



in bloom from the end of May until near August, and will take the place of 

 plants put out of doors in the Summer. 



Wm. Grey. 



THOUGHTS ON THE CULTIVATION OF FRUITS AND 



FLOWERS. 



An old subject and truly a hackneyed one, perhaps some one who sees 

 the heading of this article will say. It is indeed an old subject, but nevertheless 

 one of increasing interest throughout the length and breadth of our land. 

 Even in " our village," we see by the choice and beautiful selections of 

 flowers that greet us around almost every little home that this interest is here, 

 too deeply felt. And even now we are anticipating the time when we shall 

 be prepared to show with any city in the land, gardens and greenhouses 

 adorned with every plant that can charm the eye. And their beauty and 

 luxuriance shall also tell that we are well versed in all that pertains to their 

 culture. 



Already we are assured by many who have visited the northern and 

 eastern gardens, that in the cultivation of roses we now excel, and that ours 

 were so far superior that it was difficult for them to recognize in the sickly 

 and stinted plants of many of those gardens, the pets so much cared for at 

 home, and which have repaid that care with a beauty and a luxuriance of 

 growth seldom equalled and never surpassed. 



We know that all this cannot be claimed from our superior treatment, 

 we know that our climate is much more adapted to the growth of delicate 

 roses ; but when we recollect that we have seen the same roses growing, but 

 oh how differently, in places of the same latitude, we are constrained to 

 award some merit to ourselves for superior care and skill. 



Thanks to the pages of your valuable journal for much that has proved 

 useful to us, and for the stimulus that it has given to our exertions in 

 horticulture ; exertions that have already been richly repaid. 



But as yet, Mr. Editor, the ladies alone of our village are giving their 

 attention to these things, the culture of fruits and flowers. They do not 

 trust alone to an inexperienced gardener, for no other kind is to be had 

 here now ; they do not purchase a rare plant and trust to chance whether 

 it grows or not ; no, with their own hands they tend it, and in due time are 

 repaid by the unfolding of its lovely flowers. However, a few of the 

 "lords of the land" are beginning to give us their countenance, and when 



