Lord: Bosebery made an amusing speech at Edinburgh on Wednesday
to the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He was, be said, profoundly ignorant of: gardening, but per- haps ignoranaeravart• bliss; for he wag flog atuntled,like the etpert, by recollections of the hothouses, fruits, and orchids of a rivaL • If the ignoramus pees groundsel groWing where no groxiadier should be, he thinks of his' canary ; and as for oreliide, in hie -Caul and conscience he prefers a sweet pea. Lord IlOrsebery made many quotations from great authors on the virtues of gardens, advised his hearers in the short days Of a, Seoteh winter- to garden With the imagination, and recommended: the Continental Bradshaw as a recreative study because it called up images of sunny lands. He declared that Scottish gardeners were_ the best in the world, but omitted to- give the true reaSon, which is that it takes a aeniaa to grow. anything in Scotland. He failed, he said, to see in the exhibits before him any fruit from "the lone furrow " to which, he had recently alluded. That we fear, is a furrow that yields only cornflowers like this speech instead of corn. It is a pretty. plant, but you can get no dinner off it.-
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