Hire (teteer’s Jlimthlg, 
DEVOTED TO 
HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS. 
EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 
Old Series — M. XVII. M A. Y, 1875. New Series — ToL VIII. No. 5 
^flower (§t>atrben ant) ^Pleasure (§) rountl . 
SEASONABLE HINTS. 
In the expression, “ Natura nonfacit saltum ,” 
Ray, a celebrated naturalist of the past century, 
asserted the principles on which some of the 
most popular of modern evolutionary views are 
foun ded . u ~ N ~ flt.nrA not rirzwggsua hv 
come, now see to this or the other, and so forth ! ” 
We are glad we give only “ seasonable hints,” 
and if the season then does not cpme, it is no 
fault of ours. 
As we are writing, about the 1st of April, we 
have four feet of frost in the ground, and we 
haxdlv feel safe in saying yet, what can be done 
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