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copied them into our pages, had it not been to answer a query (Mr. Brown's), 

 noticed at the time on the cover. Rules and regulations to a certain extent 

 cannot be done without ; but there should always be enough of liberty to 

 call forth the exercise of good sense and discretion both in master and 

 servant. — Cond. 



Application for Grafts, Cuttings, $c. " Sir, — It appears, by a notice in 

 the 4th vol. page 204. of the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of 

 London, that the Fellows are prohibited from making application to the 

 exhibitors of fruits and flowers for grafts, cuttings, &c. of the articles exhi- 

 bited ; and by the recent regulations, subscribers to the Society's garden are 

 the only persons who have any prospect of being supplied therefrom with 

 those or any other articles ; other Fellows are referred to the nurserymen, 

 to whom distributions have been made, where they may purchase such 

 plants as have been supplied to them from the Garden. Now, under these 

 circumstances, it would be a very great accommodation to the unstarred 

 fellows, if lists were to be published annually by the Council, of the names 

 of those nurserymen, with their places of residence, who stand in the sun- 

 shine of the Secretary's favour, and have plants, &c. for sale, which have 

 been supplied to them from the Society's garden, in order that the non- 

 subscribing Fellows (particularly those residing at a great distance from 

 London) may know where to purchase those articles, which, by an ex post 

 facto law, they are not permitted to obtain by other means. Such an an- 

 nouncement would to myself, and many other of the Fellows under similar 

 circumstances, be particularly useful, especially during the planting season ; 

 but from the want of such a list, we are deprived of the power, even by 

 purchase, of supplying our wants, and the nurserymen lose the sale of 

 many plants for which they would otherwise receive orders. I am, Sir, &c. 



" 20th Nov. 1826. " Mentor." 



Spanish Hoe. The engraving and description of the Spanish hoe sent 

 by Mentor we have not been able to find room for in this Number, but we 

 have sent the hoe to Weir's Manufactory, Oxford Street, where it is 

 manufactured of different sizes, and at different prices. — Cond. 



The term Labourer. — An Apprentice writes, " Bj' the regulations of 

 the Horticultural Society's garden, I find, ' Candidates for admission must 

 have been educated as gardene?'s,' > yet in these regulations they are called 

 labourers. Is this consistent and proper ? If a young man who has been 

 ' educated,' that is, I presume, has served an apprenticeship to gardening, 

 is by this new nomenclature of the Horticultural Society, to be called a 

 labourer, what term is to be applied to those of the fields, the roads, and of 

 the hods and barrows, who have hitherto been called labourers? Are they 

 boors, or peasants, or men of burden, or what else ?" App. need not fear : 

 the common uses of language will not be departed from by society in general 

 far any one society in particular. Till they propose something better than 

 this, he may abide by the nomenclature given in our Encyclopaedia (§ 7377.) 

 The great thing for App. to consider, is, how to render himself worthy of 

 the term gardener. — Cond. 



Art. IV. Covent Garden Market. 



The supplies of every description for the last quarter have been ample, 

 the quality excellent, and the prices moderate. Apples and pears are 



