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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
In decorating flower-borders in the open ground, my usual practice has 
been to plant out the old stools from pots. These, especially from such small 
plants as last spoken of, make the best border plants. There are some sorts 
that are supposed to flower better in borders than others. But, as a rule, more 
depends on the season than on the sorts; for that reason I do not consider it 
worth while to name any particular sorts for that purpose; but where there 
are borders to furnish, it is better to renew them every year with plants that 
have been grown in pots the previous season, and raise fresh ones every season 
for pot culture. 
It is never desirable to stop those grown in borders for the reason that it is 
supposed to retard the flowering, but if the stopping is done early in the 
season, they cannot be greatly affected in that way; but if they can be tied or 
pegged down, it would be better every way than the manner in which they are 
often treated by branching together round one stick. 
Chrysanthemums are not at all particular as to soil, as they will grow more 
or less on any kind, but a good holding loam, with a trifling addition of rotten 
manure, is about the best to grow them in. 
F. Chitty. 
A FEW REMARKS ON ARBORICULTURE. 
It is perhaps expedient that I should explain to the amateur readers of this 
work my reasons for introducing the subject announced, seeing that many will 
consider it is no branch of floriculture. But we must recollect that the 
Florist and Pomologist has always contained themes upon different garden 
subjects. To the first-rate gardener the knowledge of forestry, both practical 
and theoretical, is of the utmost importance; and I therefore pen these lines, 
in the hope that they may prove acceptable. If we refer to Loudon’s Ency- 
clopcedia, we shall see that he treats this art as a branch of horiculture, and we 
find the beauty of our trees and shrubs is of the highest importance in our 
scenes of floral decoration. To it, then, we propose to turn our attention for a 
short time. 
While the art of horticulture, aided by the talents of Knight, Sabine, 
Loudon, Lindley, and many others has made so great advancement, and its 
sister art, agriculture, has been equally fortunate, alas! for arboriculture, its 
star is not yet risen! We could much wish that the Royal Horticultural 
Society, with its ample means and extensive patronage, would endeavour to 
rescue this useful art from the low condition in which it is found. Our nobility 
and gentry have all, or nearly all. of the finest tracts of timber and country in 
their possession, but the great majority of those to whom they are entrusted do 
not understand their management. A great number of those appointed as their 
stewards, too, undertake the care of woods -without any previous instructions, 
and can we wonder that there are failures ? I have known many eminent 
breeders and corn-growers who have failed in forestry, whilst they excelled in 
their knowledge of stock, and they were unrivalled in all their farm operations. 
Thirty years ago I lived as gardener and forester to the late Earl of Jersey, 
at Middleton Park, Bicester, for nine years. It was a most unpicturesque 
place, upon the stone brush of Oxfordshire, and as wretched a soil as could be 
conceived. It was planted throughout upon the Scotch system, with Larch, 
Scotch and Spruce Firs arid Oaks, with Birch and Thorns. It presented the 
most perfect monotony ; its sameness was most tiring. There was one wood of 
good old Oaks, with Hazel underwood, upon a tract of deep clay; but the rest 
of the place, although planted with Oaks, would not grow one. All the woods 
were in a state of nature, not having been touched from the time they were 
