7 
4 
q 
: 
i 
1842.] 
Ee 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
$15 
copies among wered in 
any part of London by remitting - piers office e order to this Office, 
at the rate of 5s. for every 25 c required, 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN THE een eo 
Floricultnral P.M. 
Geological’, 3°. 5 3. 8 r = 
Friday +. 0.0% (25% Botanical . 
Country Snows.—May 18, High Wycombe Horticultural ar Ficricaitural. 
Ir is now, alas! a long cae years ago since we 
first saw, in the drawing-roo 
Eee. 
A flat dish of porcelain had water peeg into it. 
ver 
the water a vase of flow the 
a 
remained continually 
ie is the explanation of this? 
n the view] 
Do the 
: rs athered 
ply o iieties ea ee for 
am by their roots, and their mutil 
rom 
pa here 
eC, if ‘thar power of 
diminished, so is 
mp atmosphere will 
their power of ap ee ns ; Pes dam 
Here * maintain their 
sae a of no wat 
n. 
occasion to speak of ain. In ean while, w 
mend those who love to see plenty of. fresh 
.Wers in their sitting-rooms i dry weather to procu 
ies riment can be tried by inserting a t 
Over a sau 
Tne Poor Laws of England have been producti 
of more bad fi then ag other Satie basi enact 
ments, In al their many suc- 
hat of producing di diseon- 
the landowner who pays 
pe 
any way ng part in 
“law discussions, with which we have n 
poor-law ‘or anti- 
nothing to 
we may koe assume that men of all parties would 
Blad to see somethin the 
an increase farther of 2,000,0007. 
three 
change, for what is the interest of the rich is equally 
that of the poor, there could be n 0 intelligible Bogs 
in again disturbing 1 the existing acter oft thin 
at the v no =, our 
rinciple of Seccecgmnees the 
contributions ney 
to them, in ae of Mews them 
aihaiasiven and that the labour 
more desirable, or w uickly tend to restore 
to our labourers that, self-respect and independence 
bin Agr e which the workhouse too surely destroys. 
e opinion of Mr, Morrison, the author of a 
an called “ Proposals 
be worked aetauively hy b by pa 
gle their 5 pea by ge gh a: t halt fons 
ing, and who ) ated to pana a and 
good conduct ur partaking in eo eventual profits 
** There are u y” say r. Morrison, *‘ on 
which I shall rely for the favourable consideration of my 
proposals. The first is, the d , as Christians, to the 
xpress commands ; cond is, the plain dictates 
co sense, e fearful outlay of m for 
supporting the destitute, which at present exists, if it c 
o 0 wholl sary. enable any ; 
o may be but little accustomed to consider the subject, 
e 
e only 
600/. ; showing a saving to the rate- payers of Sevenoaks 
of 2,650/. a-year, which may be clearly seen to denote a 
rate for the poor of about 10d. in the pound, where it ma 
now be ds. ; or the payment of 3/ 9d., wh re pre- 
ee payment, by an ao may Me “yea 
e oda lear sane A aving to tie will be 
very striking, if we solder that the sitole paibed of the 
des inte labouring sed including the chi pan dependsat 
on them, may be ,000; as this, at , im- 
pies a dead weight Pol twelve million pounds pinnae on 
the country ! t the amount of benefit_to the country, 
i volved in the proposals contained in t es, is no} 
fhe neers ving, as it will be discoyered 
ot only that the destitute poor may be en 
abled iy ® provide for their own maintenance, but thag they 
bees of the national hive; for . will ap 
is 6s. a-yea ces per person, this 
woald saioneat to 360 0,0002., of Teich 100,0007. may be 
tal increase to 
any exte: 
duties, and as the money saved vouie be chiefly spelt 
little luxuries, such as wine, tea, ms by the ra’ 
of it w erent Be so 
of Tevenue equal to ¢ millions 
‘The ease will orto stand as 
uring poor, including their oualorea, 
tained by the poor-rates, to be 1,200, 
To amount’ saved directly 1,200,000, at 
10/. ea < ‘ £12,000,000 
To 3¢. surplus produce beyond the cost of 
‘ 3,600,000 
Th e 3a +. 
of taxes pane oo 3,000,000 
Total benefit to the country . £18,600, 000 
“« Tt will be admitted by all, that if even a mart of this 
eH 7g can be saved to the country, a great national 
nefit will be accomplished, independent of the Sivapiags 
. “the poor, of being rescued from demi-starva' 
ergy 
that the peer cost the nation 25 per cent. be 
, and of course that pep 
that saa. ies added. 
effects on the criminal 
the abolition of the poor-rates and present ee 
of the erent poor, which drives vast numbers into 
cri e may assuredly assume, that the ebativy would 
banger sum than what is here aur ae 
n inducement to all classes to take 
ot find room for the iota wa ~ 7 
means of. which these asylum farm eated, 
is to take the place ag Sfanced and joyless pec i 
the author ts 
‘* The dreadful setobecery of ordinary labour is the chief 
cause of the weariness an 
r emulatio e pea who 
works alone in his field for cae Souk sthnatated only 
rate-payers (we 
n, 
the e lap of plenty ; but I believe it will be found 
the sum } 
by the a of a morse the workwoman, 
who, alone in her ga “ ‘a needle the whole day 
and p “% the night, stimulated but by the necessity of 
arming a ihood; the clerk, who grows pale 
ungrate‘ul task, f lve hours to his office, procur- 
ing neither i 
salary at the end of th 
these 
few g repugnance for sca daily labour. 
the accessories to the same labour, and it at o 
comes less repulsive i 
bled together, anithate each other 
ntrary to nature, but that it is only the resu 
pated and ill-judged ee in the applica 
the labour to the la ae No ; labour is not in Y itself 
repugnant, as every eates for himself some labour 
der the guise of prince It is the miserable cir- 
tance, that sorensigites of mankind » labour 
averse to ons, which renders 1 i 
idle. ri he same work—the 
taco sa 
monotony morning the same labour 
that was yea i thes the rechrter int it is which disgusts. 
An d the more wea becomes, the less his intellectual 
Even what is called etree i! Peale pe 
roduces ennué. The taste for v 
ev 
o far, readi 
con It is* pect nt, 
se true ‘philosophy to cine this natural 
taste, as, og c been A ee rote volun 
r, i 
carries with it : aid we may thus rely 
on a more rar spplicetcn of of labour, which is the 
object we have to obtain.’’ 
or ourselves, we confess our opinion of human ne 
ture to be less & favourable than that of Mr. Morrison ; 
and we see seinay Pipes actical obstacles to the working 
out his plan he extreme difficulty of .obtainin 
superintendency, on which everything woul 
im of apportioning profits, 
= ng aoe were any, toindividuals whose periods 
of employment nent a ; to say eee 
nothing ‘But char" should not discourage the humane 
in trying the experiment thus recommended. A few 
hun be suffi make the at. 
tempt, which is just one me a government un< 
ertake. The m ing paupers contented would: 
ained; and if the as- 
will never be 
wifhent sean. for the reg 
poor. . 
