32 Expenses qfa Gardener and Btttler. 



To obviate this evil, perhaps higher wages might be given 

 by nurserymen to lifters and labellers of sale trees ; and, to 

 admit of it, a little higher value might be set upon the same : 

 for the Northern nurserymen cannot supply them at a guinea 

 a score, and give the attention I recommend. 



Men of some science might also partly reduce the evil, by 

 a full description of their best fruits. Ray, Miller, Martin* 

 Forsyth, and Nicol have all partially described the best fruit 

 trees, but we have not that ample detail given in describing 

 the plants, leaf, calyx, &c., which is necessary. 



My own observations teach me that nearly all fruit trees 

 might be characterised, so much, at least, as would identify 

 the same, by the first leafing. The description of Mr. Wil- 

 mot's strawberry (Vol. I. p. 230.) is not sufficient to enable me 

 to reject a spurious sort, and yet the texture of even the leaves 

 alone, I should suppose, might do so, judging from other 

 known species. The red Roman Nectarine, for instance, has 

 a smooth, while the Newington has a jagged leaf. What can 

 be more dissimilar than the blossom of the Noblesse and 

 Gallande Peach. The Moor fowl-egg Pear may be always 

 characterised by the redness of its shoots, and the foot-stalks 

 of its leaves ; and I am of opinion, that if gardeners would 

 accurately describe the trees they recommend, the aspect and 

 soil best suited to them, the time the fruit ripens and decays, 

 with their several uses and properties, they would conduce 

 much to the spirit of orcharding, and you might enrich your 

 valuable publication with useful information. 



The Transactions published by the Horticultural Society is 

 a sealed book to country practitioners ; quarto paper, large 

 print, and extensive margin little suit our pockets. The 

 publication, to do service to practical men, must be suited to 

 their means. We vegetate slowly in these northern regions, 

 and require nursing; you southerns rapidly increase with the 

 reaction of every genial shower. We must continue to be fed 

 with children's food. You have supplied us with much, and 

 I hope you will continue long to do so. 

 - Sheffield, July, 1826. W. R. Y. 



Art. XIX. Comparative View of the Expenses qfa Gardener 

 and a Butler to their Employer. By W. S. 



Sir, 

 Conceiving that the claims of gardeners to a more ample 

 remuneration are well founded, I trust that the pages of the 



