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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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THE  PASSING  YEAR. 
IN  the  course  of  a  few  days  the  ninth  year  of  the 
tenth  decade  of  the  nineteenth  century  will 
have  run  its  course,  and  we  shall  have  entered 
upon  the  last  short  round  in  the  annals  of  time 
for  completing  the  cycle  when  the  twentieth 
century  will  be  ushered  in.  It  is  true,  not  a  few 
of  our  correspondents,  as  we  know  by  incidental 
expressions,  assume  that  the  new  century  is  just 
about  to  dawn  upon  us.  We  find  no  fault  with 
them,  though  we  happen  to  think  that  the  tenth 
decade  must  be  finished  before  a  new  one  can 
commence,  and  with  it  the  twentieth  century, 
when  another  Christmas  shall  have  come  and  gone. 
After  all,  the  matter  is  not  of  substantial  im¬ 
portance,  and  it  is  only  mentioned  because  gardeners 
and  garden  lovers  like,  and  must  have,  something 
to  think  and  talk  about  besides  gardening.  They 
may  argue,  and  show,  and  prove,  that  we  are 
wrong  on  the  question  of  “  time.”  This  would 
give  us  uo  concern ;  hut  we  should  not  close  this 
year,  or  any  year,  happily,  if  our  loyalty  to  the 
pursuit  we  love  were  doubted;  if  the  methods  we 
adopt  in  endeavours  to  foster  it  were  discoun¬ 
tenanced  ;  if  the  advice  we  give  from  time  to  time 
in  the  desire  to  be  helpful  were,  to  any  material 
extent,  mistrusted ;  and  if  our  appreciation  of  the 
valued  aid  of  hosts  of  friends  were  for  a  moment, 
and  by  any  one  of  them,  to  be  questioned,  or  in  a 
remote  degree  suspected  of  being  other  than  what 
it  is — a  strong,  real,  living,  and  lively  actuality. 
Though  we  see,  as  all  must  see  and  feel,  that 
the  year  is  passing  amidst  political  disturbances  of 
the  most  acute  and,  indeed,  terrible  character,  the 
immediate  effects  of  which  all  who  have  not  hearts 
of  adamant  must  of  necessity  deplore  ;  yet  even  in 
this  reference  we  have  something  to  unite  us  in 
producing  a  great  national  avalanche  of  admiration 
of  tbe  prowess  of  our  brave,  bold,  devoted  fellow 
mortals,  who  are  spending  their  lives,  at  duty’s 
call,  in  an  undertaking  as  far  removed  as  the  poles 
asunder  from  our  cherished  art  of  productivenes  and 
peace. 
Proud  as  we  may  justly  be  of  the  heroic  efforts 
of  our  brothers-in-arms,  let  us  not  overlook  the 
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