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JOLj'LVAL  of  horticulture  and  nOTTAGE  GARDENER. 
seasoning  oft  improves  nlain  food,  high  spicing  may  spoil  it. 
Gardeners,  as  writers,  rarely  err.  it  is  inferred,  on  the  jocular 
s  de  ;  for,  tell  it  not  in  Gath,  their  papers  are,  sometimes,  like 
a  prosy  sermon,  sound  in  doctrine,  but ,  depressing  as  a 
Scotch  mist. 
The  Niveus  Chrysanthemum  again  ?  (page  60).  How 
cii  cumstances  (or  is  it  methods  of  culture  ?)  alter  cases. 
To  day,  January  24,  we  are  cutting  this  and  the  variety 
W.  H.  Lincoln,  although  it  is  but  fair  to  add  finis 
value  and  interest.  "  Go  mad  in  it,”  hence  anyone  nrone  to 
punning  can  quickly  transform  their  Orchid  structure  into  a 
madhouse.  But  there  is  method  in  the  madness  in  spite  of 
the  havoc  it  will  make  by  running  “  amuck  ”  midst  the 
orthodox  lines  of  Orchidology. 
Ever  and  anon  “Wandering  Willie”  unpacks  his 
plethoric  poke,  and  from  “  gaddings  ”  galore  replenishes  it 
with  the  good  things  of  gardening  life.  Does  anyone  want  a 
new  Dahlia  ?  then,  forthwith  (page  85)  out  comes  Charles 
Espalier=trained  Apple,  variety  Lord  Suffield.  (8eo  note  on  Apples,  page  104.) 
for  this  season  to  both  varieties.  An  old  Contributor  ” 
says:  “If  I  dare  presume  to  offer  'Saynor’  a  little  advice.” 
Both  “  dare  ”  and  do,  A.  O.  C.  Your  advice  and  experience 
is  both  timely  and  eminently  useful,  and  if  imitation  is  the 
sincerest  form  of  flattery,  then  mutual  imitation  is  the  pleno 
form  of  it.  What  shall  we  reason  but  from  what  we  know  ; 
of  how  add  to  our  knowledge  without  interchange  of  thought 
and  practice ! 
Lunacy  in  Orchids!  “  Cattleyas  simply  go  mad  in  it.” 
That’s  leaf  mould ;  about  which  “  H.  B.  R.,”  on  page  75,  has 
a  good  deal  to  say,  and  says  it  very  much  to  the  point.  Of 
all  the  valuable  pajDers  by  this  expert  this  one  is  of  especial 
Woodbridge  with  a  gold  medal  for  his  credentials.  Are  any 
floral  gems  required  for  setting  in  the  up-to-date  herbaceous 
border?  Search  the  wanderer’s  gatherings  from  “Here 
awa’  and  there  awa  !  ”  Would  some  smart  junior  confute 
and  confuse  his  much  “worrited”  old  Head  with  modern 
nomenclature,  then  that  boy  can  tell  his  master,  on  the  best 
authority,  his  Crotons  are  Crotons  no  longer,  but  Codiaeum#, 
and  that  if  he  still  persists  in  calling  a  pampas  plume 
Gynerium  he  knows  nothing  about  it,  for  it  is  now  a 
Cortaderia.  Alas  Ithat  this  shoidd  be  so,  for  unless  it  is  of  vital 
importance  to  change  the  time-honoured  name,  it  is  what 
our  “  smart  cousins  ”  would  call  “  pure  cussedness  ”  to  do  so. 
and  that  is  what  it  seems  to — Saynor. 
