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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
' A diagram was produced by my friend, Mr. Judd, explanatory of 
the perpendicularity of the sun’s rays at all seasons of the year; 
and which could be practically worked out to suit all latitudes. 
The history of animate and inanimate nature is always interesting 
to a gardener, as it introduces him to an intimate acquaintance 
with subjects closely connected with his profession. Now that 
steam, the annihilator of time and space, is sure before long to 
form into one brotherhood the dispersed nations of the earth, we 
may expect that civilization will advance with rapid strides, that 
national prejudices will gradually vanish, and that the philan- 
thropic feeling of good wishes for the intellectual and moral 
improvement of all mankind will be more generally diffused 
among the nations of the earth ; the facility and frequency of 
intercourse by steam producing intimate social connexions, re¬ 
ciprocation of benefits will inevitably tend to unite and assimilate 
nations now remote in distance and opposite in character. It is 
closeness and frequency of intercourse that most strongly cements, 
and most surely maintains friendship and good will between 
nations and between individuals. 
In conclusion, I beg to direct the attention of any of my 
gardening friends who would wish to receive further information 
on the subject, to procure “ Humboldt’s Travels,'’ where they 
will find many calculations and observations made which will be 
found very instructive in their practice. 
Note by the Conductor. —“ The IVest London Gardeners' 1 
Association for Mutual Instruction ,” at one of whose meetings the 
paper, of which we have inserted an abridgement, was read, is a 
very meritorious voluntary assemblage of practical Gardeners and 
Florists, for the purpose of instructing each other in the higher 
and more difficult departments of their delightful profession. 
Their meetings are held every alternate Monday, at eight o’clock 
in summer, and seven o’clock in winter ; the place of meeting in 
the meantime is the Public School Room, at M altham Gieen ; 
and ten o’clock is the hour for closing. The fees of admission and 
the annual payments are remarkably low, being only two shillings 
and sixpence for a head gardener, and one shilling for an appien¬ 
tice. By this means the meeting is open to all parties ; and we 
must add that the committee, chosen half-yearly, are remarkably 
