The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

recent chances have rendered Parliament less suitable
for the discussion of such subjects than it was, (and,
doubtless, they have done so,) we are reduced to a choice

Convocation would '
be the greater evil, because
it would open an arena for the worst posfible meddling
and, if successful, the worst possible t
clerical meddling ant-

e are t

ful for the ecclesiastical laws and the Articles of Religion
already established among us ; and while the royal supre-
macy is administrative of these, no one, whatever the ex-
tent of his nonconformity may be, need entertain the

prehensions of tyra-nni

It may inc

been s

centuries ago, the prisons of England were filled witligood
and holy men because they were non-conformists; but it
should be remembered that between the reign of Charles
11. and our time, an important revolution has taken place,
the Protestantism of the Sovereign (previously contingent)
'—en secured by law, and the Bill of Rights has been
„nn-entifortnist need now feel the finger of

perty legalised to the Church ; and as he acquires all pro-
perty subject to this impost, and with a corresponding re-
duction of what would otherwise be its price, and as the
paymentinvolves him in no expression whatever of approval
of the thing paid for, he has little to complain of. Again
I would ask, where do we say, or on what evidence is it
alleged that we think, t

at our Sovereign " may be judged
of none but of God only; so that though he should nei-
ther regard his own salvation, nor no man's else, but
draw down with himself innumerable people by heaps
into hell ; yet may no mortal man in this world presume
to reprehend him ?" On the contrary, if our Sovereign
were to forsake the Protestant religion, and exert the
prerogatives of the crown to bring back the nation to

ur laws

n doing

forefathers under James 11. aid; not only reprehending
him, but if he continued obstinate, dethroning him, and
placing his nearest of kin, being Protestant, in his place.
That some members and ministers, and even dignitaries
of the Church of England, take a different view of the
supremacy, rid of
and
independence, and syno-
dical legislation, and even manifest in their hearts and
tempera the seeds of ecclesiastical dominatic, is no really
s9und argument against the English Church herself.
There are extreme men on either side; but happily on
both sides they are legally helpless. They may fora time
complain, and disturb, and partially pervert; but the ut-
most they car do is to retire. In saying this, Ido . not
allege or imply that the Church of England is without
fault. No institution.
_entrusted to human management
however perfect at first, can, without a miracle, confine
long without fault. There are blots on her fair face— '
which her first reformers had not courage to remove, and

which the

alousy of cc

children render 3 it difficult to remove now.' But though
faults may be found in her system, vastly greater faults
may be found in every other ; and in a fallen world
like this, the choice of wisdom is a choice of evils.

The reverend gentleman then proceeded to quote largely
from other portions of these authorised documents, ex-
hibiting the immunities claimed by the ^lergy—the awful
excommunications and anathemas pronounced on -all
faithful christians, and others, not within the pale of the
Roman Catholic Church, and the intolerant persecution
of the excommunicated. He then proceeded to show
from what has happened in Austria, Venice, Naples, Sar-
dinia, France, Spain, &c., and recently in the Nether-
lands, Bavaria, Saxony, Switzerland, &c., that the ope
ration, upon a Roman Catholic population of the Canon
Law, quickened into, vigorous exercise by fresh missives
from the Papal Court, was such that every Roman Catho-
lic government in Europe had been compelled to guard
againt it, in crder to secure their own independence even
in temporal things. [This portion of the lecture was
unusually important, but as the whole of the arguments

-erenc,s

here, as our readers can thus possess themselves of them
in a much more convenient shape.] The rev. lecturer
then concluded as follows :—But it may be asked, and i
remains further to he answered, how would the introdu
tion of the Canon Law' affect the P

roteqant community
of this country, who have no respect for its authority ?
This, of course, is not so direct, nor so complete, nor so
immediate, but it is real and dangerous. Protestants are
unsuspecting and uncombined, because they are free.
(Cheers.) Ile cultivation of personal responsibility
is inseparable from a corresponding cultivation of inde-
pendence of thought and feeling. This is one inevitable
result of the free exercise of private judgment ; and as
every one individually must give account of himself at

the judgment seat of Christ, it is right and proper that

every one, individually, should think for himself now.
As there will be no vicarious religion then, (except in
Christ himself,) so there ought to be none now. No
mortal can answer for another there, therefore none should
dare to do it now. (Applause.) This constitutes the
excellence of our condition as self-examining Christians ;
and. although circumstantial uniformity is incompatible

with it, we have, to a greater extent than many seem to
think, substantial unity. Our unity in word is not, in-
deed, the sing-song of a flock of parrots, all taught to
reiterate " church, ' '• church," "church I" (Much
laughter and applause.) Our unity in action is not the
mechanism of a regiment all shouldering or ordering
arms at the word of command, or at the example of a
fugleman. (A laugh.) There cannot be such unity
where reason and freedom are in exercise. (Hear.) If
we give ourselves up to a general, to be wielded at his
will, and others do the same, there may then be unifor-
mity of movement, but there ceases to be personal
liberty. Such is Papal uniformity—a great piece of
human mechanism, the responsibility of the unthinking
and unquestioning masses being transferred to the
presiding geniuses, who touch the secret springs, and
keep the giant arms in motion. (Loud cheers.)
It has been said of Protestants by a Romish controver-
sialist archbishop, that " if God would make known what
is the specific creed of each individual of fifty millions of

em, it is probable that not ten out of the whole number
could be found to agree, on all points, in substance and
detail, in the principles and doctrines of Christian revela-
tion." This is a gross libel. They would not, it is quite
possible, give the same expression in detail to their views
—the Evangelists themselves differ thus—(hear)—but
millions among them would give substantially, in every-
thing fundamental, the same confession of heir faith ;
while Rnmanists, though they might give memoriter t'-e
same words in answer to the same question, could boast
no more of - intelligent unity than exists between the
priest who reads Latin and the Irish labourer who can
read nothing. (Laughter.) But the very excellence of
our condition as individualised self-examining Christians,
constitutes a main part of our- exposure to the machina-
tions of such a conspiracy as Romanism. Its object is
temporal supremacy. Its means are unscrupulous. Its
organisation is complete. Where force can be used with
safety and effect, it may—where fraud, it may—where a
combination of both, it may. The Canon Law lays
bishops, and through them their priests, under an obliga-
tion to endeavour by all means, force and fraud, to obtain
ascendancy. For this purpose, having brought their own
people into a state of convenient vassalage, they would,
as in Ireland they do—and it is already commenced in
England—(hear)—employ them in diverse disingenuous
missions among Protestants : to foment divisions, to
suggest doubts, to discourage reliance on the Bible, by
insinuating uncertainty as to its canon, and obscurity as
to its contents. In a country like this, containing a
teeming population, to thousands of whom we have no
means of extending the blessings of true Christian teach-
ing—our voluntary friends objecting to a public provision,
while they and all fail to make a sufficient private one—
there must always be a large number of persons open to
the machinations of such a body as the drilled agents of a
Romish hierarchy. Those agents are employed skilfully,
according to their qualifications for fraud or force, for
perfidy or audacity, to unsettle the foundations of heretic
society, and keep up communication with their priests.
Noisy bullies are employed to interrupt Protestant meet-
ings, and from all parts of the house they recognise and
respond to a concerted signal from the platform. Sisters
of Charity are employed to commend themselves to the
good graces of unwary and indignant Protestants, by vi-
sits of sympathy, and little douceurs of tea and sugar,
beginning with cases of mixed marriage where some
members of the family are Popish, and so extending their
insinuating influence. Writers of tales and catechisms
are employed to captivate and incoctrinate the youthful
mind. Poets and musicians are employed to gratify
the taste and entrance the senses. Nor does the
plan of the campaign end here. Witnesses are su-
borned. and party confederacy prevails, to defeat the
course of justice. (Hear.) And simultaneous combina-
tions, with intent to intimidate, act in diverse localities,
with all the precision and punctuality of a disciplined
army, while no man sees the officers in command. The
Roman Catholic Church has seldom of late years been re-
garded steadily under its genuine and exclusive aspect, of
an unappeasable foe to civil liberty. Popery may be in
many senses a cheat, but in every sense a tyrant. In
vague and abstract-terms we allow Popery confines her
jurisdiction to things spiritual, but in practice, by vigilant
and subtle induction, by claims of relationship. between
things spiritual and things temporal, she brings all the

affairs of this world within her constructive empire. In
the council room, in the confessional, in the closet, in'the
chamber, in the street—ever watchful, ever menacing, ever
exacting, ever calculating ; where Popery, through her
minister, finds admission, there, there is no security nor
confidence, no free agency, no free speech, no ho!d nor
independent thought—all is unconscious, irretrievable, and
unvarying bondage, An instance of this has just occurred
in our own town. I have the fact under the hand of a
reverend brother, assistant to the minister of St. John's
Church, and I now tell it to you. A Roman Catholic
priest, learning that some Roman Catholic children at-
tended the Ragged School in Hodson-street, publicly
threatened the parents of those children that if they per-
severed in sending them to the school, he and the other
preists would not attend them on their death-beds.
(Hisses and groans.) Sir, this is the way Rornanism as-
sails the poor in temporal things ; and the same thing is
done with regard to their votes, and tneir conduct in other
respects, as to sending their children to school. (Hear.)
If they do not vote for the priests' nominee, whether for
Parliament, Town Council, or Board of Guardians—in-
terdict ! (Cheers.) The rites of the church are refused.
(Hear.) They will not baptise the child. They will not
church the wife. They will not give them extreme unc-
tion on their death-beds. (Hear, and cheers.) What
Mr. Wise, in his " History of the (Roman) Catholic As-
sociation,"saysof that most-cunningly-devised confederacy
may with truth he said of the entire machinery by which a
Popish hierarchy assails a Protestant community :—" It
designed t-,-" -' ' language which could

was tit._ .. to tell ministers, in a _
no longer he misunderstood, that, whenever the associa-
tion chose to call, there were the people ready to follow;
that obedience to the association was the paramount

le in ti

princip►, heart of every peasant in the country;
that the power of the association was, therefore, absolute
and univer.al ; that it could not be got rid of by the law,
because it never infringed the law; that it could not be
got rid of by brute force, because it never rendered brute
force nee--

ary ; that it was therefore tmattackable and

it could a

tack of

. ,
that, without injuring existing institutions, it might make
use of these very institutions for every purpose of injury ;
aat it could wield the constitution against the constitu•
tion, introduce a sullen, perpetual war into the bosom of
peace, disturb every relaiion of society, without violating
a single enactment on which such relations repose; and,
11 . .

minister to choose between coercion and conciliation."
It is from this we have to defend ourselves. It is with
reference to this that our senators should learn wisdom.
Self-defence by law attainst such a system is not intole-
rance. To treat such a system as if it were merely reli-
gious opinion is infatuation. To exclude the agents of

is nothing more than common prudence. England may
rest assured that her choice is narrowed to the painful,
but inevitable, alternative of exclusion or submission.
Fair participation is utterly impracticable
not to he judged of or treated according to the ordinary
principles of human nature. Reason and argument ar
IY• • • . -

Romanism is

absence o

miracles they are insufficient aginst violence or treachery.
Romanism, beaten in argument again and again, conti-
nues to say and Co as before with unblushing effrontery.
The same unfounded misrepresentations in defiance of
historical truth, and the same dogmatic absurdities in
defiance of unanswered argument, are reiterated on every
side. In like manner the same abuse of their spirituali-
ties, as they call them, into an engine for coercion in
things temporal, and the same ostentatious denial before
Protestants of those principles to which they are pledged
on oath among themselves, are everywhere practised. In
vain shall English statesmen diplomatise—in vain shall
English law-officers prepare bills for the

_pplication of
moderate penalties—if men who refuse to abjure the Pope
o: Rome, the audacious and ambitious head of the code
of the Canon Law—if Romanists, persisting in their fo-
reign allegiance, though called only spiritual, be not. by
law excluded from place and power in Britain, and that
without any interference with them in the exercise
of their religion. as was the case previous to 1829
(hear, and cheers)—if, in a word, the privileges con-
ferred upon them by the. Emancipation Bill be not sub-
stantially withdrawn, all the boasted light, and liberty,
and liberalism of England will not save her institutions,
will not perpetuate to het• children the h1...;. -;

us freedom. (Vehement applause.) For
n Church, in the highest and best sense of the
term, we entertain no apprehensions. (Hear.) We
know in whom we have believed, and who said, and still
says to his own, " Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's
good pleasure to give you the kingdom." " All that the
Father giveth to me shall come to me, and him that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." " I give unto
them eternal_ life, and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand.' "My Father
which gave them me is greater ti

the Chri

and no mar

be able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." " I
and my Father are one." Yes, for the members of
Christ's mystical body, the bride, the Lamb's wife, the
blessed company of all faithful people. we fear nothing,
and have nothing to fear. The.promises of God to them
are all yea and all amen in Christ Jesus. Neither the
gates of hell, nor the machinations of Antichrist, shell
prevail againstany one of them. Their loud hahelujahs
shall ascend before the Throne, when the smoke of the
torments of the beast and the false prophets shall also
ascend. Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen And
again they shall call hallelujah ! But we have no such
promise for our beloved country. The golden candlestick
of pure and apostolical Christianity may be removed from
England, as it has been from other lands ; and we confess
we have not become so transcendental or so cosmopolitan,
as to have abjured all Christian patriotism. If this be a
weakness in the eyes of abstract philosophy, we must
plead guilty of it. Patriotism is permitted, nay, it is to
be cultivated in the followers of Him who wept over
Jerusalem ; and England is called, and loudly called, to
the decision and energy essential to the present crisis, in
the name, the sacred, the animating name of Chiristian
patriotism. (Cheers.) Christian patriotism ! the most
touching, and, next to the love of God in Christ, the
noblest passion of the human heart,—the love, the undy-
ing love, of that country which protected the cradles of
our infancy, and encloses the ashes of our fathers ; the
happy scene of childhood when all was hope and joy ;
when innocence was in every heart, and pleasure in every
eye ; when every smile was bliss, and every thought was
buoyant rapture ; when a father's benignant encourage-
ment, a mother's affectionate embrace, a sis'er's softening
and humanising companionship, conveyed to the ripening
character indelible impressions of philanthropy—impres-
sions associated for ever with the walks, the trees, the
rivers, the mountains, amongst which the gentle influ-
ences twined themselves around the yet plastic soul.
(Applause,) Christian patriotism ! the only romance of
sensibility and virtue 1 (Cheers.) Englishmen, up !
(Tumultuous applause.) Free-born Englishmen, be
wise, be firm. (Renewed cheering.) Deliver your
country, your beloved country, unequalled on the globe.
0, deliver her, and keep her delivered, decidedly, and no
mistake, from the despotic grasp of Antichrist, from the
iron chain of the Canon Law. The reverend doctor
resumed his seat amidst overwhelming applause from
every part of the house.
The Wor. Chancellor RAIKES said, he felt it would be
in vain to attempt, by any words to which he could give
utterance, to express so fully as the meeting had done
the universal feeling of gratitude which they entertained
towards their respected friend Dr. M'Neile. (Cheers.)
Alluding to the designation applied to Mr. Pitt of " the
pilot that weathered the storm," he said it was his honour
and privilege to direct their gratitude, if not to the pilot
that weathered the storm, yet to the watchman who had
first given warning of the coming tempest. (Loud
cheers.) It was his privilege to hold up to their gratitude
and through them to the gratitude of the United King-
dom, the individual whose eye, quickened by the steady
study of the Word of God—growing in light from that
testimony of Jesus which was the spirit of prophecy—
foresaw, in the dark abyss, the invasion that was preparing,
and prepared to meet that invasion by rousing up the
feeling which had actuated that great assembly that day.
(Applause.) He had not laboured in vain, and they
themselves were witness to the fact ; and if the invader
came, and found the coasts of England guarded, as they
ever had been, against foreign aggression, thanks to him
who bad sounded the alarm—(cneers)—whose trumpet
gaveno uncertain sound—(renewed cheers)—whose clarion
sounding from one end of the kingdom to the other, had
united all sects'and denominations in a firm determina-
tion to resist the aggressions of the see-of Rome, and to
contend with might and main for the Briton's best privi-
lege—the privilege of worshipping God according to the
dictates of his conscience, and the letter of the revealed
Word of God. (Much applause.) If they would per-
mit him to point them to the vista that was before them,
he would say, that the same power that bad appointed
bishops throughout every part of this country, without
the leave or sanction of the constituted authorities—that
had presumed to dictate to Protestant England, and to
send the canons of a poor trembling Italian bishop—
(laughter and cheers)—to supersede the law of the land
that same power might and would scatter in every one
of our parishes agents that would carry into the interior
of society the spirit of that canon law which had been so
admirably and beneficially discussed. (Hear.) Mark
the effect. In every parish new sources of collision and
dispute would arise. And let them not doubt that agents
would go found. We had supplied them. Maynooth
would send forth its hundreds. (Hear and cheers.) Men
trained and exercised in all the low polemics of the canon
law would be forth, to disturb the peace of our local
communities, and to add one fresh element.ot discord to'
those which already interrupted the peace and prosperity
of the land. (Applause.) He concluded by moving a
vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, for his able and
instructive lecture.

The motion was seconded by Mr. W. JONES, and car-
ried amidst the greatest enthusiasm. A similar vote was
awarded to the chairman, on the motion of the Rev.
C. W. LAWRENCE, seconded by JOHN CROPPER, Esq.,
and the meeting separated after singing the national
anthem.

GAS AND POPERY.—When the chairman of a company,
formed for lighting the Eternal City, waited on the late
Pope to solicit the required permission, Gregory indig-
nantly asked how he presumed to ask such a thing so
utterly subversive of religion. The astonished speculator
humbly stated that he could not see the most remote
connexion between religion and carburetted hydrogen—
" Yes. but there is, sir," shouted the Pope, " my pious
subjects are in the habit of vowing candles to be burned
before the shrines of the saints ; the glimmering candle
would soon be rendered redicuious by the contrast of the
glaring gas lights, and thus a custom so essential to ever-
lasting salvation would fall into general contempt, if not
disuse." No reply could be made to this edifying argu-
ment. Silenced, if not convinced, the speculator with-
drew—the votive candles still flicker, though not so
numerously as heretofore, and they just render visible the
dirt and darkness to which Rome is consigned at night.
The introduction of gas and the fall of the Papacy ap-
peared, therefore, to be simultaneous events reserved for
the astonishment of the Romans in future agcs.—Froni
the Gal JPurnal of October, 1850.

Mr. Rivers, the chief of all rose growers, not except-
ing even those of France, has made the first step, and an
important one too, towards an improvement in the pre-
sent taste for rose-growing. He, has commenced weed-
ing the rose catalogues until he has reduced those inter-
minable lists of names to, comparatively speaking, a very
few. He has shown that endless variety ought not to be
so much the florists object, as obtaining a choice selection
of really good and permanent sorts. Fifteen years ago,
the catalogue of the Messrs. Loddigies, who were not
much given to this branch of the trade, had no less than
1,527 species and varieties named in their catalogue ; and
well do we remember how puzzled we used to be in the
blooming season to discover the difference between many
of the varieties. Since then the rage for novelty has
added two or three thousand more varieties to the cata-
logues—but certainly not more than two or three dozen
of really good sorts ;—and we believe this pandering to
the frivolous taste for novelty has had the effect of tiring
the public, and really injuring the nurserymen. If the
florists of this kingdom were to combine and establish a
central society, similar to the Horticultural, and let every
new flower be submitted to the decision of such a society
before being offered to the public; then a real good would
be accomplished. They would have the benefit of a cer-
tificate, upon which reliance could be placed ; and the
tradesman would not be run into an endless search for
ephemeral novelties, and expensive puffing of worthless
articles, having only a short period of sate: his time and
energies, on the contrary, would be devoted to the steady
improvement of really good things, which would give
satisfaction to the purchaser, and in the end be much
more remunerative. We are indebted to the same clever
cultivator for another piece of valuable and practical
advice; namely, to plant groups of one sort of rose; or
in other words, instead of filling the beds of the lawn or
rosery:with as many varieties as we can collect, to chose

as many distinct and good varieties as we have beds, and
fill each with one sort only, the effect will be a richness
and fulness of colouring instead of the usual motley
appearance they now present. Such advice as that given
by Mr. Rivers, need only to be disseminated—its practi-
cal utility will speak for itself.

There are two branches of Natural History which are
so intimately connected with Floriculture and Botany,
that they ought to be, to a certain extent, familiar to all
real lovers of Flora, whether in field or parterre. We
allude to Entomology and Ornithology ; to the florist and
horticulturist they are of the utmost importance, for both

friends and enemies to discriminate between the one and
the other it is obviously necessary that in our endeavours
to be rid of one we may be sure we do not injure the
other. We think it was those interesting writers Kirby
and Spence who mentioned a curious incident, bearing
upon this point, which, as far as we can remember, was as
follow' —Some t)

is ime since, the farmers of New England
found the grass of their meadows destroyed to such an
extent, that they were absolutely obliged to import hay.
They noticed that the spots which appeared burned, or
withered, were always frequented by a peculiar bird, the
Blue Crow, which were actively engaged in pecking up
the grass. The.ccerulean crow was at once declared to be
the enemy who destroyed the farmer's hopes, and a war
of extermination was commenced, and waged to such
an extent, that soon not a blue crow could be seen.
0,11 I_

e grass d

Jid not improve, but on the
contrary, the evil went on increasing, apparently in the
same ratio as the birds decreased. This puzzled the poor
•

farmers beyond measure, and they wou.
continued mystified to the present day,
that one of those stupid dull
who happened to visit New England for the purpose of
Poking his nose into this and to that,'—as Ingolsby has
it—was asked to account for the phenomenon which
was ruining the agricultural community ; and, after a
short examination, he shewed that the fields were infested
with the grub of the cockchafer, which fed upon the roots
of the grass, and was in its turn fed on by the blue crow.
So the farmers discovered that they had destroyed their
best friends." The great expense of works treating upon
t.,,L

Ed probably have
had it not been

ows ca

Duujruta MIS nunerw neen toe grek, _...3aek
the student; but the beautiful series of illustrated trea-
tises upon Entomology, by Miss Catlow, and Ornithology,
by Mr. Gosse, just published by Messrs. Reeve and Ben-
ham, there is nothing to be wished for. In them our
botanical friends will find beautifully-coloured drawines,
and descriptions of all the most familiar species, especially
those most likely to come under his observation whilst
pursuing his hortit ultural amusements.

Riots on the Cultivation of the Hollyhock, by William
Clater.—ln presenting these few brief remarks upon the
cultivation of the hollyhock, I beg to say. that

year's experience induces me to enforce the same routine
as the previous one, feeling confident, after twenty-five
years oultiiiting" this ornamental plant, that purchasers
following these directions may insure success. The holly-
hock will grow best in good old garden soil, well trenched
over to the depth of two feet, with plenty of thoroughly
decomposed manure—such as old cucumber beds, or night
soil mixed with earth. Sandy loam they like, and if the
subsoil be wet, they will thrive remarkably well in the
summer, but in the winter wet is very injurious to them ;
to prevent which I remove, to the depth of one or two
inches, the mould round the neck of the plant, and fill up
with white sand, about six inches round the stem, level
with the surface : it is simply to preserve them from wet,
insects, and slugs, from which, in the winter, they are apt
to suffer very much, if not killed. They may be propa-
gated by single eyes in July or August, also by cuttings in
the spring, placed on a slight bottom heat. Young plants
raised ,ram summer cuttings are best preserved by repot-
ting► them in October into large pots—the larger the better,
in light rich sandy earth, and placed in a cold frame ; thus
they will grow during the winter. In March or April turn
them out .into the open ground, and they will bloom as
fine and as early as if planted in the autumn. Plant them
not less than four feet from row to row, and three feet
apart in the row. If grouped in beds, not nearer than
three feet each way. They will grow well in the shade of
distant trees, but by no means must the roots interfere.
In May, when the spikes are grown about a foot high, thin
them out according to the strength of the plant : if well
established and very strong, leave four spikes : if weak,
two or three, or only one, at the same time placing a stake
to each one separately. The most robust grower does not
require a stake higher than three feet from the ground.
Stake them before they get too high, and secure them well
by tying, and they will grow erect. If the weather is dry
at this season of the year, they must be watered with a
solution of guano, or any other liquid manure, poured
carefully round the roots, avoiding pouring it on or too
near the stems. To grow the flowers fine, cut off the
lateral shoots, thin the flower buds if crowded together,
and take out the top of the spike according to the height
desired, paying attentioti to the usual height and habit of
the plant. Observe, by topping it, ycu may increase the
size of the flower, but at the same time shorten its dura-
tion of flowering, and perhaps disfigure its appearance.—
Gardener's. Chronicle.