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HINTS ON FLOWER GARDENING. 
absolutely prevail by the adoption of the aerial system of moveable curre 3 
philosophically provided for. 
Such air can never propagate cold, because whenever it is employed as I3 
propelling force in winter, it is already partly warmed, being obtained from I3 
atmosphere of the house itself, though from the coldest part of it, that is, from al 
rather below its floor. Let any one witness a stove at work, or even feel the wall 
air that flows through the cold tank hours after every spark of fire has be 1 
extinguished, and he will doubt no longer. 
HINTS ON FLOWER-GARDENING. 
Although so much has been written of late years, not only in this but in ma r 
other gardening periodicals, on the management of the flower-garden, it is somewb 
remarkable that either the principles are badly carried out, or, what is worse, in 1 
slovenly a manner, and that, too, in places where better things might be expected aft 
ought to be produced, as to make one think the managers do not take so mu. 
interest in first principles, as the progress of decorative art renders it necessar 
they should do. That much of this in too many places arises from a want of the) 
means and appliances to boot, which can only be supplied by proprietors, is too trui 
but that there are other places in which every necessary aid is allowed with lit) 
better progress, is also equally notorious. This arises partly from the managers ' 
our learned Societies considering, that as these societies were established for t| 
promotion of science, such minor matters as decorative gardening are beneath the 
notice, and hence so many of the public gardens in the country have become recei 
tacles for mere botanical curiosities, three-fourths of which are neither useful nj 
ornamental, and which, in the writer’s opinion, are wholly unworthy of cultivatioi 
Fortunately, the public are beginning to think the same, as is evidenced by tl 
alterations which have recently been made in the Botanical Society’s at Sheffiel 
Birmingham, and some other places, where botanical curiosities, which can on 
interest the learned or curious, have been replaced by plants which are gay, and 
the same time interesting to the community generally. 
Other societies will doubtless follow this example ; and then, instead of hearir 
the several curators boasting of having a plant of this or that all but worthle 
weed, we shall visit their gardens for the purpose of seeing the progress whi( 
science, art, and cultivation are making ; and also view them as examples, to she 
gentlemen how their private gardens ought to be conducted. We have alwa; 
looked upon public gardens in this light ; and we contend they ought, in evei 
department, to be kept in the highest possible order, so that instead of laggk 
behind as they have hitherto done, to be examples of the science of progress in the 
several neighbourhoods, which gardeners might look up to and copy. Then tl 
