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Virgatum. and Wightii. Not flowered yet : Fulgens, Campy llocarpum, 

 Hodgsoni, Campbelli, Thompsoni, Aucklandi, Falconeri, and Argenteum, 

 The Bhotan Rhododendrons are very straggling growers, and will never make 

 good specimens ; here they are grown as standards, and their long straggling 

 shoots tied down. The new Hybrids between them and ciliatum will be 

 everything that can be desired as to habit, and for fine showy trusses of sweet- 

 scented flowers. 



I find great advantages from this house in hardening-ofF Camellias, 

 Epacrises, and Heaths, after making their young growths when done flowering. 

 These plants in the open, in wet summers, often get sodden at the roots, and 

 suffer in consequence ; but when kept sheltered in a house with a north aspect, 

 they get plenty of air and shade, and never suffer from too much wet unless 

 neglected. 



Fuchsias, Liliums, and other greenhouse plants that want shading in the 

 summer months, thrive well in this structure ; likewise stove plants, to keep 

 them longer in bloom, or retard them, as the case may be. 



All plants suffering from insects or mildew are brought into this back 

 house, as one end is used as a hospital to give room for dressing them, 

 or for fumigation. 



William Tillery. 



MR. JOHN EDWARDS. 



" Friend after friend departs : 

 Who hath not lost a friend ? 

 There is no union here of hearts 

 Which hath not here an end." 



It has been well said by a wise preacher that " there is never a time when 

 we have not some death before our eyes, either of some public personage, some 

 private friend, neighbour, or acquaintance, to warn us of our own mortality;" and 

 this impressive truth has been of late especially applicable to the floral brother- 

 hood in general, and to us of the Florist and Pomologist in particular. 



Hardly twelve years have passed since six of the principal supporters of this 

 periodical met together in the home of the Editor, soon after the first Number 

 was issued; and now two only (but. these, happily, the two who have probably 

 done more than any two men extant for the advancement of their art *) are 

 living. Mr. Fox (the artist), Mr. Groom, Mr. Beck, and Mr. Edwards have 

 fulfilled the inevitable destiny of " man that is born of woman," " he cometh 

 up, and is cut down like a floioeT. , ' > 



Mr. John Edwards, who died on the 26th of May last, commenced his career 

 as a florist with the Pansy and the Pink, gradually extending his attentions— 

 for the love of one flower teaches us the love of all, and he is no more a florist 

 who cultivates but one than that man is an astronomer who can distinguish 

 but a single star— to the Tulip, the Carnation, the Auricula, the Dahlia, and the 

 Rose, all of which he grew with a most careful skill, and successfully exhibited 

 for many years at the South London Floricultural and other Societies. 



He had entered upon a more extended field in the cultivation of Orchids, 

 stove and greenhouse plants, when that invader, who has laid waste so many 

 fair garden grounds— the architect, approached him, and the land on which he 

 lived was sold for building purposes. 



The loss of his garden induced him, unfortunately for the gardening public, 

 to discontinue his " Garden Almanac," which he established in 1853— the first 



* Mr. Eivers, of Sawbridgeworth, and Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough. 



