LECTURE X 



ENCOURAGEMENT AND ENDEAVOUR.- HIGH 

 IDEALS IN GARDENING. 



ALL past experience proves that encouragement 

 given for excellence in production in the form of 

 prizes to the most successful workers has led to 

 higher standards of excellence being established. 

 This is the direct outcome of emulation and ever 

 increasing numbers striving for superiority. Exhibi- 

 tions of various kinds, whether of manufactured 

 goods or farm and garden produce, have had a stimu- 

 lating effect in giving impulse to endeavour and 

 impelling both brain-workers and handicraftsmen to 

 excel in the work in which they were engaged. 



This is as it should be, and in no pursuit have 

 greater advances been made during the past few 

 years than in gardening. 



The way in which prizes are won for fruit is by 

 planting young trees of the best varieties in deep, 

 good, well- worked soil ; not crowding the branches 

 but keeping the bushes open ; thinning the fruit to 

 nine inches or more apart ; dressing the ground over 

 the roots thickly with manure, giving a pailful -of 

 liquid manure now and then when the crop is swell- 

 ing ; keeping the growths free from insects ; and 

 when the fruits are ready for gathering, handling 



