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Joupal  iif  !)ortmtltmji’ 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  11,  1901. 
Han  and  Flint. 
HAT  “grinhus”!  Was  there  ever 
^  anything  so  entrancing  ?  With 
its  hack  bench  holding  a  line  of 
big  Fuchsias  ;  with  its  step-ladder 
stage  sustaining  a  medley  of  lesser 
things;  and  lesser  still— pigmy  plants 
filling  a  front  shelf  till  such  time  as 
they,  too,  could  go  up  via  the  step-at-a-time 
arrangement,  and  finally  roll  out  into  the 
world  beyond,  in,  maybe,  a  carriage  and  pair,  or  a 
pony  chaise.  A  famous  Fuchsia  grower  was  “Old 
Applo,”  my  gardening  friend  of  the  long  ago,  in  an  old 
world  Kentish  village,  passing  rich  upon  a  modest 
pension  which  paid  his  rent  and  left  a  little  over. 
The  pseudonym  of  Applo  was  traceable,  probably, 
to  his  clarion  note  when  hawking  the  fruit  of  a 
famous  Blenheim  Pippin,  which  had  been  known 
to  yield  40  bushels  in  a  season  ;  hut  his  genial, 
rubicund  face,  wreathed  in  a  time-frosted  whisker, 
seemed  so  typical  of  bis  clear  skinned,  unspotted 
Pippins,  that  by  no  other  name  would  he  have 
been  the  same  to  me.  Mine  was  not  the  only 
Pippin  tace  which  peered  into  bis  basket,  for  he 
was  beloved  of  the  boys;  and  those  Pippins,  in 
exchange  for  money  if  we  had  it,  for  love  if  we 
hadn’t — oh,  those  Pippins  !  It  is,  however,  the 
memory  of  the  greenhouse  which  strikes  an 
almost  lost  chord  of  sympathy,  still  noticeable  even 
in  this  severely  practical  age,  ’twixt  man  and 
plant.  That  “  grinhus,”  pervaded  by  a  subtle 
scent,  or  rather  the  commingling  of  many  odours, 
which  many  years  and  many  miles  o’er  land  and 
sea  wdl  never  efface,  for — 
You  may  break,  you  may  shatter  the  vase  as  you  will, 
But  the  scent  of  the  Roses  will  cling  round  it  still. 
What  a  fricassee  of  foolishness  to  set  before  a 
journalist !  may  be  said;  and  when  it  is  added  that 
“Old  Applo’'  talk-id  to  his  plants,  some,  of  course, 
will  say  the  man  was  mad.  Some  said  so  then, 
indeed,  but  they  also  said  he  made  “a  mint 
During  FIFTY-TWO  YEARS  the  “  JOURNAL  OF 
HORTICULTURE"  has  been  written  by  Gardeners  fox 
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 
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