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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ December, 
these are made into cuttings in February and 
March, a number being put into pots, and 
placed in bottom-heat, when they soon root. 
They are then potted on, shifting as required, 
and being gradually hardened off. It will be 
observed that the market growers keep their 
plants under glass until the berries are set. 
This differs from the practice of some growers, 
■who put their plants out in the open ground 
early in the season. The market growers will 
be good judges of practice, and the system they 
adopt is one well worthy of being generally 
followed. — E. Dean, Ealing , W. 
THE MODEL GARDENER. 
« HE Model Gardener is, in general, a 
respectable married man, and if he 
has to advertise for a situation, he is 
not ashamed of stating how many olive- 
branches—“ incumbrances ” they are some¬ 
times called — he cultivates. He has a 
thoroughly practical knowledge of his pro¬ 
fession in all its branches, but does not in¬ 
clude looking after a horse and chaise, or 
milking cows, in this category. He has a 
horror of single-handed places, or even of those 
where only a man or two are allowed as helps. 
He never wears a blue apron, except when 
potting pines, or when one is necessary. He is 
never “ frozen out,” for his fertile mind always 
plans out plenty of work in-doors. He has a 
great antipathy to weeds, and to see groundsel 
and chickweed growing and running to seed is 
his especial dislike. Blackbirds and thrushes, 
amongst the feathered tribes, he keeps within 
bounds, believing that he pays too dearly for 
their whistling in the spring, when they devour 
his finest cherries, currants, and gooseberries 
in the summer. He never reads the hashed 
and rehashed articles in the gardening jrapers, 
written by beardless laddies , on vine and 
peach-growing, and on making soils and borders 
for these fruits. If he looks for informa¬ 
tion on these matters, he consults the opinions 
of experienced men, eminent for their 
successful cultivation of these fruits. He 
never parts with the produce of his garden 
without his employer’s consent, not even to eke 
out a scanty salary. If he gets the great boon 
from his employer of a week or two’s holiday 
to London, to see some of the great flower and 
fruit shows, he makes the most of his time, in 
visiting the parks and gardens, and in making 
notes of the bedding plants and their most 
artistic combinations. He is studiously neat 
and clean in his personal appearance, and a 
sworn enemy to any excess, publicly or 
privately, in intoxicating drinks. He tries to 
give his children as good an education as his 
means will warrant; and if they are sons, he is 
anxious for them to acquire a little Latin, to 
make them adepts in botanical nomenclature. 
He rarely mixes with the other upper servants 
in the establishment, for he has a well-grounded 
idea that his intellectual attainments are 
superior to theirs, and that their conversation is 
mostly on sporting affairs, or on other frivolous 
matters, which he does not, nor wishes, to under¬ 
stand. He is an early riser, and every day, by 
observation or experiment, adds some useful 
fact to his stock of knowledge.— William 
Tillery. 
[These somewhat quaint utterances of our 
friend, Mr. Tillery, are meant to be suggestive to 
the younger members of the fraternity, who if 
they follow in the track above indicated with 
any reasonable amount of intelligence and 
assiduity, will generally find that it leads on to 
an honourable and respected position.— Ed.] 
THE PANSY AND THE PINK. 
GwOF two modest, sweet, and pretty floivers 
oj p are wanted, I would recommend the above 
old-fashioned and hardy subjects. They 
are easily cultivated, succeed in almost any 
garden soil, and are also adapted for any style 
of garden. These two flowers I was passionately 
fond of when a boy, and although almost every 
class of florists’ flowers has claimed my atten¬ 
tion since then, the old love for these is still 
strong. 
We had a bed of seedling Pansies at Loxford 
Hall last year 60 ft. long, wdiich was much 
admired by visitors. The seeds were saved from 
good varieties, and the mass of flowers -was 
charming in its infinite variety; no two of the 
many hundreds of plants had flowers exactly 
alike. The bed of Pinks ran parallel to this, 
and was of the same length. At the time when 
the plants were in flower the bed was indeed 
beautiful, but it had the fault of not lasting 
long in flower. The beds of Pinks are at their 
best about the 20th of June, and flowers can 
be cut any day during a period of six weeks. 
Many persons may say—Why write about such 
easily grown plants as these ? I reply that 
