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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 20, 1908. 



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GARDENERS' WAGES AT KEW. 



When the vote of £83,124 for salaries 

 and expenses of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture was before the British House of 

 Commons the other day, someone called 

 attention to the wages paid to the gar- 

 deners in the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. He 

 urged that the wages paid to the gar- 

 deners should be raised from a guinea 

 to 24 shillings weekly. It was, in his 

 opinion, begging the question to say that 

 the gardeners were improvers. He 

 thought the wages should be raised to 

 the level of those paid in the London 

 parks. In reply. Sir E. Strachey said 

 the gardeners at Kew are young un- 

 married men, who come under special 

 conditions with a view to obtain ex- 

 perience, and that they can only remain 

 two years. The guinea paid them weekly 

 is more in the nature of a subsistence 

 than a wage, and the advantages they 

 receive through being at Kew for the 

 two years have to be taken into account. 



PLUMOSUS UNDER LATH SHADE. 



Asparagus plumosus, so much used for 

 decorative purposes, is cultivated out, of 

 doors for market purposes near Naples, 

 Italy. According to a writer in Eevue 

 Horticole, M. Traverso has succeeded by 

 a cheap and ingenious device in over- 

 coming the diflBculties due to excessive 

 dry heat and the dangerous winds that 

 occur in that part of Italy. His planta- 

 tion is surrounded with close lattice 

 work, and is roofed over with the same 

 material at about seven feet from the 

 ground. The results are said to be ex- 

 cellent, and the plants grow freely and 

 give little trouble. 



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