Straight walk from this end same as the ethers. 
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be endowed with no more or even less sensation than must be 
that of such animals as these, it explains the causes, and throws 
light upon the prevention of many diseases affecting those which 
we cultivate, and warns the cultivator from the late performance 
of many of his operations, as well as from being needlessly 
violent in his treatment. If a Grape Vine be pruned too late 
in the spring, the bleeding or effusion of sap has been known to 
be so excessive, that the tree has died from absolute exhaustion. 
Stone-fruit trees, if severely bruised, are frequently destroyed by 
the inroads of a disease, resembling, in all its characteristics, the 
cancerous affections of animals ; and we have known a whole 
crop of Wheat affected with a swelling of the stem or culm,, 
evidently caused by an extravasation of the sap from its ruptured 
vessels, owing to a heavy roller being passed over the crop, when, 
of a forward growth.—J. 
{To be continued .) 
SUMMER FLOWER GARDENING AND WINTER DECORATION AT LINTON PARK. 
Walk 8 feet wide. Other large beds here. 
It frequently happens that when an individual imagines to 
himself that he has made a great and useful discovery, an inquiry 
into the matter dispels the pleasing allusion and proves the un¬ 
pleasant fact, that the so-expected invention exists in a more per¬ 
fected form at some place where its utility is most required ; but, 
on the other hand, we often witness the workings of envy decrying 
the merits of new improvements, and by some of those subtle 
lines of argument which every invention, word, or action, is 
liable to be assailed with, endeavour to prove that a similar im¬ 
provement was known years ago. Nay, some will carry their 
intricate quibbles relating to its originality until they admit 
| themselves lost in the mysteries of Grecian or Egyptian antiquity. 
Fortunately, the general public do not recognise this ungenerous 
I carping when any thing really good is presented to them, and 
whether the article be an improved needle or an Armstrong gun, 
the good article receives its fair share of commendation as a com¬ 
pensation for the disparagement it receives on the other hand, 
and public authority stamps its utility if it deserves it. Now, 
in this onward march of improvement which mechanical objects 
of all kind exhibit, it is certainly our duty to keep pace with 
the long-headed hard-thinking class, who after a long period ofl 
fruitless trials and vexations, at last succeed in perfecting a piece 
of machinery so as to enable two men to perform the work that 
three were required for before. Only it too frequently happens 
that whenever an advance is made in gardening matters, labour 
is increased rather than diminished ; but if the addition be" in 
the shape of improved culture, or some fresh subject added to- 
the list of useful or ornamental articles, it is generally received 
with a welcome corresponding with its beauty or utility, or both 
combined. Now, a comparison with certain things in our line 
with the same thirty years ago, certainly favours the idea that 
little or no improvement has been made ; but other branches of 
the craft have assuredly advanced beyond all expectation, and 
still keep advancing. One of the most conspicuous in this class, 
is flower gardening as it is now practised. The stride that this 
has taken of late years is certainly surprising, quite as much for 
the extensive scale on which it is now carried out, as for novelties 
enlisted into its service. New plants are eagerly bought up and' 
