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largely, because there are others who make a speciality of particular kinds, and 
thus do them as well as they can be done. At each course of cultivation some 
addition is made to the plans of operation, so that the cultivation of one or 
two kinds of plants becomes a business, and one, too, which taxes and brings 
into play all the energies of the cultivator. 
There is also one other thing in which the French cultivator rejoices—viz., 
his great superiority of climate, which must very largely assist him in forward¬ 
ing his operations there. They are subjected to less vicissitudes of weather 
than we are here; there they have not the succession of variable weather 
which we have here. The hot summer day of June is not succeeded by the 
chilling frost; but when the sun shines it does so without any injury. The 
gardener then has a vast field open before him and has only to settle upon some 
branch of it to distinguish himself. He can choose from the science the part 
he will pursue and follow it with all his energy. How often do our horti¬ 
cultural exhibitions furnish proofs of the abilities and perseverance of such 
persons who sometimes make the regular gardener blush at his own pro¬ 
ductions ? But we must remember that the whole weight of garden arrange¬ 
ments borne by one individual, is a very different affair from one branch which 
thus becomes a specialite , being followed by an amateur who from the great 
attention he devotes to it eclipses his contemporaries. 
In concluding this paper we would throw out a hint to horticultural 
societies upon the advantages which accrue to them, and through them to the 
world by the full and ample management of amateurs in gardening matters. 
How often have we seen and with what pleasure the beautiful produce of their 
gardens competing and winning ? These things coming from a place called 
their garden, but which would have been more properly designated as their 
wilderness a few years ago. 
We will now conclude this paper in the hope that our remarks may be 
found useful, and that we may be the means of inciting the amateur to start as 
a gardener. 
Amersham. Henry Bailey, C.M.R.H.S. 
BOTANY FOB BEGINNERS. 
Lesson VII. 
The next form of flower we 
Fig. 1.—Flowers of the Cherry. 
shall take for our botanical illustration is 
the Cherry (Cerasus vulgaris, Jig. 1). It 
matters not whether you take the common 
Wild Cherry, or those cultivated in gar¬ 
dens, the Bird Cherry, common Laurel, 
the Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, or the 
Plum, for the organisation is the same 
in all. 
The calyx is composed of five green 
blades, united to¬ 
gether in their 
lower half; and it 
is on the line where 
these become unit¬ 
ed that you find the 
insertion of the five Fig. 2.—Section of the flower 
petals, and about a of the cherry - 
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score of stamens, curving inwards when the flower is not fully opened. In 
