OCTOBER. 
289 
CARNATION-FLOWERED PEACH. 
[Plate 144.] 
In our October number last year, we gave a coloured illustra¬ 
tion of a charming new Chinese Camellia-flowered Peach, a 
shrub or rather small tree introduced by Mr. Fortune, and 
“ let out ” by Mr. Glendinning, of the Chiswick Nursery. We 
now introduce to notice another variety, the stock of which is 
also in the possession of Mr. Glendinning. To the double 
white and crimson Peaches introduced by Mr. Fortune, when 
that gentleman was collecting plants in China for the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, have now therefore been added two others of 
far greater merit, for their flowers are very much larger and 
more showy, while the plants are equally hardy and cultivable. 
It will be seen at a glance how very beautiful the kind we now 
figure is ; and we think it must be admitted that wherever 
early-flowering plants are in demand, these new and charming 
varieties of Chinese Peach should not be overlooked. 
At page 289 of our volume for last year we stated that Mr. 
Glendinning had also a new and handsome double-blossomed 
Chinese Prunus; this we hope to figure in an early number. 
A TASTE FOR GARDENING—ITS ADVANTAGES AND 
MEANS OF CULTIVATION.* 
When the Committee of the Horticultural Society which has lately 
been established in our town requested me to deliver a lecture for 
them, on the evening previous to their first show, I felt that I could 
not very well refuse such a request. I was pleased to see any 
attempt made to introduce a more extended taste for gardening—a 
pursuit which I had myself followed under various circumstances for 
twenty-five years, and one which I believe to be well calculated to 
benefit those who engage in it; I therefore, though much pressed with 
calls of various kinds at once acceded to their request, and my 
appearance here this evening is the result. I have selected this subject 
as appropriate for our purpose. We desire to see an increased interest 
in gardening ; how desirable, then, to show that it has advantages, for 
men will not be inclined to that from which they see no good result 
is likely to follow, and if the inclination be excited, the natural question 
would be, have I any means or capabilities of carrying out that 
inclination ? In speaking to you on these points I will not pretend 
to the affectation of ignorance, nor can I plead that I am unac¬ 
customed to public speaking. I must therefore say honestly, that 
* This was delivered as a lecture, and it has been thought desirable not to 
alter it. 
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