May  23,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
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NEW  CRIMSON  BEDDING 
TEA  ROSE, 
CORALLINA 
(WM.  PAUL  &  SON). 
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The  buds  are  deep  rosy  crimson  shaded  with  beautiful 
coral  red,  the  latter  shade  becoming  more  pronounced 
as  the  flowers  expand.  The  habit  of  the  plant  is 
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Joumtitl  o|i  fl)ortiqulturr 
THURSDAY.  MAY  23,  1901. 
High  Class  Gardening. 
N  all  degrees  of  gardening,  and  in 
gardens  of  all  degrees,  ideals 
abound.  In  many  cases,  perhaps, 
ideals  only  of  the  most  shadowy 
kind,  never  clothed  in  the  form 
and  substance  of  tangible  reality,  but 
doomed  to  remain  as  the  ghosts  of  de¬ 
parted  glory  or  unattained  ambition.  Such 
may  be  of  little  use,  but  are  not  wholly 
useless,  for  those  sustained  by  the  ever  present 
hope  of  better  things  to  come  never  sink  into  hope¬ 
lessness.  “  Man  never  is,  but  always  to  be,  blest.’* 
Anomalous  as  it  may  appear,  observation  tends  to 
the  inference  that  perfection  is  oftener  approached 
in  small  gardens,  although  they  may  not  fairly 
represent  comprehensive  horticulture,  than  it  is  in 
more  pretentious  ones,  although  in  the  latter  we 
seek  our  ideals,  for  in  spite  of  the  general  progress 
of  gardening  unavoidable  causes  have  brought  down 
many  a  gardening  home  from  its  high  estate  of 
excellence  to  the  low  level  of  mediocrity. 
So  the  old  order  of  things  not  only  changes,  hut 
often  begets  more  or  less  deterioration,  with  all 
its  correlative,  pernicious,  and  demoralising  effects. 
How  are  the  mighty  fallen  !  It  is  to  the  credit  of 
many  a  chief-in-charge  that,  with  a  diminished 
exchequer,  and  the  serious  handicapping  of  his 
efforts  consequent  upon  it,  a  perennial,  if  hopeless, 
struggle  is  maintained  to  have  things  as  they  were, 
but  the  wisdom  of  endeavouring  to  follow  on  former 
lines  is  more  than  doubtful  when  a  proper  estimate 
of  ways  and  means  would  show  that  it  is  impos¬ 
sible.  Those  who  attempt  too  much  often  accom¬ 
plish  too  little.  Much  as  we  may  admire  the 
dogged  perseverance  of  men  who  are  lured  on  by 
the  false  light  of  an  optimistic  illusion,  the  fault 
cannot  be  praised,  and  the  profuse  apologies 
frequently  made  in  the  endeavour  to  veneer  the 
roughness  of  things  generally  may  be  so  pain¬ 
fully  apparent  as  to  create  the  feelrng  that  Qui 
s'excuse,  s'accuse.  Quality,  and  quantity,  in  a 
sense,  are  cardinal  points  in  high  class  gardening, 
but  quality  must  ever  take  the  pre-eminence. 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  Notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no_other 
address. 
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