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THURSDAY,  JANUARY  7,  1034. 
A  New  Year’s  Message. 
•  .  — 
T  is  now  a  good  many  years  since 
my  friend,  Dr.  Robert  llogg 
V'  (whose  death  left  a  perceptible 
blank  in  one’s  life),  asked  me  to 
send  a  New  Year’s  message  to 
the  readers  of  what  used  affection¬ 
ately  to  be  called  “  Our  .Journal.” 
This  message  I  repeated  from  year  to 
year,  never  expecting  that  I  should  do 
so  for  so  long  ;  and  now  comes  a  request  to  me 
in  my  eighty-sixth  year  that  1  should  again 
seud  a  kiudly  greeting  to  those  known  and 
unkuown  friends  who,  I  believe,  will  gladly 
receive  the  good  wishes  of  one  who  has  grown 
old  in  the  service  of  horticulture,  and  who  can 
truly  say  that  some  of  the  pleasantest  hours 
of  a  loug  life  have  been  spent  in  that  service. 
I  have  had,  as  many  know,  severe  illnesses, 
and  I  am  thankful  to  Almighty  God  that  these 
have  not  affected  my  brain  power,  and  that 
my  memory  is  as  good  as  ever  it  was,  and  that 
I  am  able  to  fulfil  some  of  the  duties  of  my 
sacred  calling,  and  also  to  indulge,  though  not 
as  I  used,  in  the  enjoyments  which  my  garden 
has  afforded  me.  Of  late  years,  however,  the 
blindness  which  some  years  ago  seized  me  has 
gradually  increased,  and  I  am  now  to  all  intents 
and  purposes  quite  blind.  I  should,  neverthe¬ 
less,  have  been  uuwilliug  to  put  on  ouo  side 
the  request  made  to  me,  and  I  respond  to  the 
call  the  more  willingly  because  the  year  lUOf? 
will,  I  tliiuk,  loug  be  remembered  in  the 
history  of  our  craft. 
As  far  as  the  year  itself  is  concerned,  it  has 
been  one  of  the  most  disastrous  that  I  can 
recollect.  Kent  has  well  been  called  the 
Garden  of  England,”  and  anyone  who  went 
through  it  in  the  early  days  of  May  would 
readily  have  said  it  well  deserves  the  title. 
There  is  no  county  in  England  where  the 
Cherry  flourishes  in  like  jirofusiou,  and  every¬ 
one  w'as  anticipating  a  bountiful  Cherry 
T>EADERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Oirdeninx 
-Til  Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  odicially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  aud  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
