\ugust 6, 1892. 
FHE GARDENING WORLD. 
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THE CARNATION: 
Its History, Properties, and Management; 
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BY 
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THE NATIONAL CHRYSANTHE- 
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Queen’s Park, Longton, Flower Show. 
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T|>ank Holiday.— What a world of meaning 
^ lies hidden in these two words. It 
would seem as if of all our Annual Holi¬ 
days, that of the month of August was the 
most popular and most widely observed. 
The crowded denizens of our urban courts 
and alleys, and of our narrow streets, where 
a thousand human beings are compressed on 
to an acre of ground, find no higher aspect 
of enjoyment than in getting out, if the day 
be fine, into the remoter country or rural 
districts, amidst the fields, the lanes, hedge¬ 
rows, woods or commons, indeed anywhere 
that fresh pure air, ample room, and 
Nature may be found in her brightest 
aspects. 
To all such persons there seems, as com¬ 
pared with their own dark dismal crowded 
surroundings, to be at once Paradise and 
Heaven in a garden of flowers, or in the 
fields and woods just now so brightly gar¬ 
nished with all the floral beauty that nature 
can create. Bank Holiday, this year, found 
the country, in its warmest parts, with the 
sickle in motion and the reaper full of 
activity. There is no part of the year when 
the country is fuller of life and of beauty 
than just at harvest time. In some areas 
the fields are still full of waving corn, 
beautiful, like inland seas. In others the 
standing sheaves bear resemblance to a 
Liliputian encampment. 
In others, the wains bearing to the stack 
yards the produce of the year form scenes 
of joyous activity which give vitality to the 
landscape and delight to the observer. To 
all those of our town pent brethren, whose 
Bank Holiday thus enables them to breathe 
pure air and share in the joyous beauty of 
rural life, if ever so short a time, we offer 
congratulations that they in their holiday 
opportunities made of them such excellent 
use. 
