March  28,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER 
253 
Hardy  Perennials 
FOR  PRESENT  PLANTING. 
BARR’S  TALL  FLAG  IRISES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  . .  5/6,  7/6  and  10/6 
26,1,25 . .  ••  ..  10/6  and  15/- 
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per  dozen,  2/6.  ’  ’ 
BARR’S  HARDY  DOUBLE  CHINESE  P/EONIES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
•"  i?  choice  named  varieties  ..  10/6,  15/-  and  21/- 
25  ,1,  25  •*  »  „  ..  21/-,  30/-  and  42/- 
BARR’S  HARDY  SINGLE  CHINESE  P/EONIES. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  ..  10/6,  15/- and  21/- 
BARR’S  beautiful  JAPANESE  FLAG  IRISES 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  choice  named  varieties  ..  10/6,  15/-  and  21/- 
BARR’S  HARDY  CLEMATIS. 
STRONG  PLANTS. 
12  in  12  handsome  hardy  sorts  ..  ..  15/- and  21/- 
BARR’S  HARDY  PLANT  CATALOGUE, 
Contains  a  Descriptive  List  of  all  the  best  Pjeonies, 
Irises  Delphiniums,  Phloxes,  Michaelmas  Daisies! 
Pyrethrums,  Hardy  Border  Chrysanthemums  and 
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No.  1083.— VOL.  XI/IL.  Third  Series. 
Journal  of  Horticulture. 
THURSDAY,  MARCH  28,  1901. 
Points  of  Difference. 
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t  HAT  doctors  disagree  is  a  well- 
^  known  fact,  and  so  do  gardeners, 
equally  as  much,  if  not  more. 
Perhaps  one  of  the  most  puzzling 
things  to  a  novice  in  horticultural 
matters  is  the  contradictive  character 
of  the  opinions  of  practical  men  over 
the  culture  of  certain  plants  and  crops.  It 
is  misleading  to  get  the  views  of  one  expert, 
and  then  when  you  go  to  another  for  corroborative 
evidence,  to  hear  him  propound  a  different  theory 
altogether.  I  say  a  different  one,  but  perhaps  it 
is  only  seemingly  to,  and  if  the  matter  comes 
to  be  thoroughly  probed  it  will  probably  turn  out 
that  the  principle  is  the  same  in  both  cases,  and 
the  difference  only  in  the  mode  of  application. 
The  pages  of  the  Journal  of  Horticulture  have 
been  the  medium  of  many  a  long  and  lively  con¬ 
troversy  on  different  subjects,  and  though  to  the 
uninitiated  mind  they  may  be  puzzling  and  mis¬ 
leading,  to  the  practical  man  they  are  both  inter¬ 
esting  and  instructive. 
Very  often  when  these  discussions  are  ended  and 
the  arguments  on  either  side  are  carefully  weighed, 
it  turns  out  that  there  is  something  to  say  for 
both,  aDd  it  is  parallel  to  the  case  of  the  two 
men  who  arrived  simultaneously  at  the  same  point, 
but  one  took  the  road  way  and  the  other  went 
across  the  fields.  Every  man  who  has  proved  the 
correctness  of  a  theory  by  his  own  practice  has  a 
right  to  express  his  opiniou  and  to  act  upon  it,  but 
conditions  vary  so  considerably  that  it  is  not  wise 
of  him  to  assert  that  his  method  is  the  only  right 
one  and  every  other  is  wrong.  There  is  only  one 
school  where  a  gardener  can  learn  the  best  methods, 
and  it  is  in  that  of  experience.  Diversity  of  opinion 
is  so  common  among  gardeners  that  after  a  man 
has  been  told  that  this,  that,  or  the  other  system 
is  the  best,  he  has  to  prove  the  thiDg  for  himself 
by  putting  it  to  the  test. 
Young  gardeners  as  they  move  from  place  to 
place  during  years  of  probationship  have  ample 
During  FIFTY-TWO  YEARS  the  “  JOURNAL  OF 
HORTICULTURE"  has  been  written  by  Gardeners  for 
Gardeners,  and  in  its  principles,  its  practice,  and  its 
price  it  still  remains  the  same.  One  alteration  is  per¬ 
haps,  however,  necessary.  Our  modern  methods  of 
production  have  rendered  the  price  old-fashioned, 
and  hence  in  order  to  meet  the  wishes  of  the 
present  generation  of  Gardeners  the  “  JOURNAL 
OF  HORTICULTURE "  will  hereafter  be  sold  for 
TWOPENCE  instead  of  Threepence. 
