May 30, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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who pass the Preliminary and Final 

 Examinations which will be required. 

 The examination will be practical, viva 

 voce and written. The practical part 

 will be held in suitable gardens at dif- 

 ferent centers and entrants will be re- 

 quired to carry out under thn exam- 

 iners' eyes any work which may be 

 required of them. 'Employers in that 

 country are encouraging, and in many 

 cases expecting, their gardeners to try 

 for this diploma, and no doubt iu a few 

 years' time a man seeking a position 

 a.= gardener upon any estate of conse- 

 quence will, all other thing.s equal, 

 stand a very poor chance unless he 

 holds this diploma. 



As our much-respected secretary, 

 Mr. Ebel. said, the National Associa- 

 tion is not directly concerned with the 

 question of salaries. Its aim is rather 

 at the general uplift of the profession 

 gardener and estate superintendent, 

 and the recognition by employers of 

 the profession as such; believing that 

 the question of salaries will adjust It- 

 self; in other words a good man will 

 have no trouble in getting a good sal- 

 ary. 



It is no doubt a truism that there are 

 black sheep in every flock, both 

 amongst employers and employed. One 

 ot the duties of the association is to 

 see that its members are all white. 

 Further the professional ability of its 

 members should be unquestionable, 

 and to this end it is to be hoped that 

 the Association will initiate a move- 

 ment such as that which has come to 

 fruition in the old country so as to en- 

 able members of the profession to ob- 

 tain a diploma under such safeguards 

 as will procure its recognition as evi- 

 dence that its holder possesses ability 

 g'' a far higher nature than a pass cer- 

 tificate from a college. 



On the other hand those who think 

 that the N. A. G. should become a 

 trades union had better start one as a 

 separate organization. They will then 

 be able to recruit to tliemselves. like 

 other unions, all the least competent 

 ol the profession and draw out all the 

 b'ack sheep, and thus save the trouble 

 ot sorting. 



Arthuk S.mith. 



SUMMING IT UP. 



Mr. Ebet now admits that educating 

 the employer up to the point where 

 he will pay his gardener a decent 

 salary is not "a fallacy" as he at first 

 claimed. In fact, he claims that that 

 very thing is now being done. Glory 

 be. That is what he started the con- 

 troversy about, so all's well. The 

 other points are mostly personal and 

 of no importance. It may be men- 

 tioned, however, that the writer never 

 said anything about unions, trade or 

 otherwise, except to answer Mr. Ebel's 

 question: "Had he ever heard of a 

 profession being successfully imion- 

 ized?" Anyone who has read Aristotle 

 knows that that form of government 

 is best which is best administered. If 

 the gardeners' society is well adminis- 

 tered it will be a good trade union. 

 And if it takes a leaf from the law- 

 yers' trade union it will not admit any- 

 one to its bar without passing an ex- 

 amination and it will reserve the right 

 to disbar for cause. There are "kail 

 gardeners" just as well as "shyster 

 lawyers." 



G. C. W.\Tsox. 



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