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to be below the proper remuneration. Mr. McEwen felt this to be the 
case, and made an offer to take the situation at a higher sum, which 
was agreed to by the Council. It was considered that before deciding 
on accepting one candidate, who had given his own terms, it should 
have been announced by a second advertisement that the Council 
considered the original sum insufficient to secure a suitable officer, and 
that they were willing to advance to the sum subsequently given to 
Mr. McEwen, when there were several good gardeners who would 
have competed for the situation. We name this; for, however the 
appointment of so valuable a superintendent as Mr. McEwen made 
might justify the Council in their choice, yet as they had decided 
originally on making the election an open one, we consider they should 
have kept their word with the public, and thus have left no room 
for complaint. 
NOTES ON THE MONTH. 
The mildness of the last winter and tropical heat of the present 
summer have produced a marked effect on some plants which rarely 
bloom in ordinary seasons. In May and June Paulovnia imperialis was 
everywhere covered with its long Foxglove-looking flowers, and its 
appearance at the above season, with its half-developed foliage, and 
each bit of last year’s wood terminated with a spike of blossoms, 
was very beautiful. More recently, the double and single Pomegranate 
have become loaded with their wax-like flowers of a rich scarlet, and 
those who grow this plant must have been rewarded by so rich a display 
as it is now making. Both varieties should find a place on every south 
wall, and would doubtless bloom much more frequently than they do, 
if means were taken when planting to confine their roots to a poor dry 
soil, when little growth would be made, and the production of bloom 
buds encouraged. This tree requires precisely the same management 
as the Pear to induce a plentiful bloom. We lately saw a specimen of 
the old double yellow Rose, but then that one was worth going miles to 
see; clothed in all its beauty it was truly a sight, and as far excels all 
the race of so-called yellow Roses as Harrisoni does the Austrian Briar. 
The plant in question was growing on the banks of the Avon, in the 
south of England, and whether this fickle favourite had been induced to 
show her charms so fully under the influences of the soft climate or 
genial soil of the locality, I am not prepared to say; but perhaps both 
may have had to do with it, as I was told that though it had bloomed 
frequently in great perfection before, it had never so completely covered 
itself with masses of bloom as this present season ; we should say there 
were 1000 blooms opening or fully expanded when we saw it. Cloth of 
Gold has also been grand everywhere. Nothing delights us so much 
when passing through a country district as to see this fine Rose covering 
large spaces on the walls of parsonage houses and those of well-to-do 
farmers; it shows how soon good plants become widely distributed. 
Knowing that many of our country clergymen are great gardeners—as 
