It is rather late in the day to attempt to preserve the above, and the disposition to do so manifested by some goes to prove what I have before ventured to hint, viz, that the gardeners, as a body, are much behind the age, and in need of enlightenment.

The discussions of our Society meetings have taken what 1 think a very desirable, interesting, and practical turn; one much calculated to benefit both the gardeners and the public. Part of the former complain that some of their number are telling all-they know; (more, perhaps, than they - the other ones - do; ) that it is not right; it will injure business; their occupation will be gone when every body understands gardening as well as they do. I think this a mistake, and am glad to see that the more enlightened and liberal-minded of their body agree with me. Any one following a pursuit as a business, if competent thereto, has advantages over one occasionally dabbling in it, that defy competition. I think I could make a packing-box as well as any carpenter, but, supposing my time to be worth no more than his, it would cost me double to do so. I could kill and drew a pig as well as any butcher, yet prefer to buy him in the shape of bacon. These men seem to want to treat the public like a lot of children out for a holiday. "You may come and look at our pretty things, but you must be good boys and girls, and not ask any questions." They justly lay themselves open to the suspicion that they are afraid the pupils may get to know more than their masters; they fear they should find out how little, rather than how much, they know.

The subject of Horticulture is so extensive that none need feel ashamed to confess ignorance when it is the ease; if a man thoroughly understands the particular branch chance or taste has thrown him into, it is all that can be expected of him.

Occasionally discoveries may be made which it is to the interest of the person, for a time at least, to keep to himself; but nothing has been, or is likely to be elicited at these meetings, which ordinarily intelligent persons could not learn if they felt interested enough to study the matter, and read a little.

The necessity that exists for proper structures and constant attention is a sufficient guarantee against enthusiastic amateurs raising all the plants, and spoiling business. Those who may attempt it without the proper appliances, and who, as they will, give it up, will be less likely to grumble at prices of plants, knowing, as they do, the trouble and expense of producing them.

Finally, to these non-progressive gentlemen I would say, do not be afraid of your customers leaving you; the more they know the more they will want to know; the more they will spend with you, and the more they will respect your knowledge, if you have it. If you find they are getting ahead of you, set to work and make use of the advantages you possess to perfect yourself in your profession. If the saying, that a man is never too old to learn, is true at all, it certainly is in gardening.

Remember, also, that silence does not always mark wisdom; and if you do not possess "the gift of the gab" yourselves, do not carp at your brothers of the guild who do.

[Brooklyn, it will be seen, is after the gardeners again. If his object is to bring them out, he will doubtless succeed, for he has put them on their defence. We, of course, think it is a great mistake to suppose that the spread of horticultural knowledge will ruin trade, otherwise we should cease at once from editing this journal; for we would not wittingly assume the grave responsibility of ruining our fellow-men. No fact in economics is better established than that a thing is used just in proportion as its uses are understood. There is nothing in horticulture or gardening exceptional to this. The more people understand how to grow plants, the more of them they will buy. They are not like toys that may be preserved in a case to look at, but objects that can only be kept with a knowledge how to keep them; hence, without this knowledge they would become useless, and cease to be sought for. We think it may be stated as an axiom, that the knowledge of plants and the sale of them will go on pari passu; or, to put it mathematically, that the sale of plants will increase as the squares of their knowledge ! There, " Brooklyn," how does that suit your mathematical head 1 A gardener may, if it suits him, keep to himself his peculiar mode of propagating plants; but if he sells them, by the very act he assumes the moral responsibility of telling the purchaser how to take care of them; and the more gardeners spread knowledge in this way, the more plants will be sold.

We trust they will all regard this matter in its true light, and unite together in spreading the knowledge of plants through all the land. - Ed].