36 On the Treatment of Gardeners by Nurserymen. 



worthy a place in your valuable Magazine, you are heartily 

 welcome to do what you like with it. 



I am, most respectfully, Sir, &c. 



John Borrowdale. 



Wareop Hall, Aug. 8th, 1826. 



The result of our correspondent's experiment agrees with 

 the practice of Mr. Knight, as recorded in Horticultural 

 Transactions, (Vol. iii. p. 459.) It must be a considerable 

 satisfaction to the admirers of this wholesome fruit, to see 

 confirmed with what ease it can be cultivated to a high degree 

 of perfection, and at any season. Where there is a flued pit, a 

 cool back shed or cellar, and a good stock of plants in pots, it 

 must be an easy matter to have ripe fruit every day in the year. 

 There is no fruit-tree that bears so well in pots as the fig. — 

 Cond. 



Art. XV. On the Treatment 'which Gardeners out of Place 

 generally receive from the Nurserymen, and the Consequences 

 resulting therefrom. By Sensitivus, of Yorkshire. 



Sir, 



The respect which you seem to have for gardeners, and 

 circumstances connected with gardening, persuades me that 

 you will readily pardon the liberty I have taken in making a 

 few remarks to you ; and as I am a subscriber to your Gar- 

 dener's Magazine, perhaps you will allow them to occupy a 

 page therein. 



I observe in your Magazine notices on the inadequacy of 

 gardeners' wages, of which many know the effects, but few 

 consider the cause. Some argue, that it proceeds entirely 

 from the trade being overstocked with Scotchmen ; but I differ 

 from those who are of that opinion, and attach the greatest 

 blame to nurserymen. A gardener leaves his situation ; then, 

 as his best resource, he hies to a nurseryman, and solicits for 

 employment. The nurseryman makes as many wry faces as 

 if he were taking physic, and perhaps at last (apparently with 

 much pain to himself) he grumbles out as contemptuously as 

 possible, " We are full of hands, but, as we promised to do 

 something for you, we will try to find employment for you a 

 short time : we give so much wages," &c. &c. In this man- 

 ner, persuading a poor fellow that they are quite full of hands, 

 but will take him on merely to accommodate him, it is a very 

 fine plea for offering him low wages; but most gardeners 



