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DzcEMBzE 31, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS’ OHEONGOUR AND AGRICULTURAL d onm 
1253 
the amount of that * 
ri how do the Ares bl 
vp m the arcas ipe al the. plants 
h 
is elgen ty. 
for, 
their o own n hands. 
We wills 
na pay 
ratifica * Florist" would 
have us believe, that tit p not been Ped bas long ago, | scan 
bees 
? great. 
support the argument, bat in vain is the Ade 
ned s discover them, although the importance re plan "4 st 
the pores 2 its v. bearings is u RN the top of redit AL 
Had © desire “of the iter been pu bal Ae! — the back wall, In 1859, som: 
disinterested, A s probably have been largely | ca: nches in umference, In 1800, the 
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le so utterly "e wos Swe, an ad were allowed to 5 E & few 
i y to | bunches, d 44 lbs. 1, there 
attention | were 350 bunches, averaging 2 Ib. “each p^ V 
t weighing 3 and 4, and a few » Ib. a 
ficial no doubt, to 
P qi ) 
tthe appear: 
n your column ns o 
Spiri rit of emulation e ae used if his visited and ins pected by 
den 
in "the of the 
nary success of the North Bewick los er were 
e y great numbers ad ardeners 
out? A gar d th No 
‘action, mb 
ing Tod eners | 
vd pronos 
c E Floris "E 
at ers the * rale gintle- 
min? of the country. The fair and true ae on a9] 
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be named as the gen dud n's name is pot 
— for that of ‘his ploughman when the ass 
s a prize, and the gardener wins his prizes as fairly | 8 
bee as laboriously as any ploughman. Will * Florist ” 
Poultry vp - hd 
noble lords 
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low wonderful resulta ts had strae ived at od 
e indeed to see such Vines "idi fas crops the pen 
3o after planting; ; oq - an en the a me ” said t 
to being sufficiently acquainted with EU va 
| branches of his profession, to discharge ris duties 
na | patiafnstority must have a tolerably 
and devote a wig amou: unt of attention 
s, end; but M di Lm 
industriou ack, d 
bii. 2nd zealous for the advance of his ar 
s| this will soon E nes are over- 
cropping aaa 80, ean dn of the 
EOS Padi thair € they 
To en 
and o 
should be aay to ye ie him i in que appropriate prospered 
| Way. cn any eee being pene $ that t this de zo in 1863, 708 anche; and i 
result c: n be ^ E - my each, a Vines 
n his Lee ie they eren e dom $^ the 
ity o 
and 
sole er. 
did - exist avai the: dicia England 
of feelin E 
wn 
apes cuuiary Al extn cha e to make splen: did 
| his dune “has 80 pue earned throngh t | wood, ma 
extra and arduous duties which have devolve d upon him |5} inches i in i devdiiiee. 
p x at the grea 
their masters, idis you ed peck those who nt 
rs to know m 
ould. ‘ack eee nh an absu irdity, f for 
They s show 
eri ie nber 
n general way, the prizes fhat are awarded at floral | is a fact th "i 
1 they 28 bunches to come to maturity. Two Peach houses 
between no two classes n so far apart in the social | of the emp ita po wages to a conscientious | have been erected in 1863 at the of the Vineries ; 
le do such good piene exist, as between now servant will secure a faithful ten of Lost, | e same description of border en constru 
Every master es enter his | plau uts i n his s own and her re T: think the present system found | them, and the result has been equally satisf: , 
ld b to work admirably well, for in howev er r fee iin iin anner Seven Peaches and Nectarines were planted in the 
jealo e merit Muri la AF man's services may be rec ognised, there is found in it | April of 1863, and each tree has this year borne on 
to them. 
The rimini 4 E "Tits ” suggestions 
could, in my mtg qoem Aa ges M M didi 
lt appears to m f you 
nts vu p peii M this pabject who 
Eu biu alating germ which will average two dozen of exceedingly fine fruit. X XE 
d inev 
ost be nthe 
aire pons 
to produe Northumber land. 
the be the Te: your dario of the 24th 
table to progress if your Correspondent’s remarks | inst. I obsei arks from Ashford upon this 
Cabbage, Mida ns an jeri that it did not 
corresponde 
are —« with. the general princi iple Jes which were "uM I cannot consider his pur org of K 
plants are s sd Whe 
of war 
e | stand the frost of last winter so we 
agai of t 
prominent, rete iy ippen to zd Lye 1 have end 
ud aene for the names of thee emplo oyers of | 
reat ery d men, 
The wing 
ie pe in a edi Viren way, and the | betwist a an d ima: ET 
other i ina way requiri ng a combination of a » highly Borecole Kail), 
being “ible " P any o Not that i bi? one 
re 1), o br 
a fair | sport, some of the ani partaking more of the Cabbage 
and open competition for determining the merit ot the beo: e Kail, and gr g larger | in the head than 
These are of c des 
various products in an use -— ble of the 
about the matter, but 'as th E happ iy tl Men y of severe ros! thes y seedlings ; 
continue, a ecause i A eder cd ? is not gene- but find from three years' 
` Me Loser iem OW tive trials alongside of 
He owing are aware that me work is most 
e | nately is that great desideratum 
e | supre 
dental advantages ‘of birth, position, &c., wit 
every department 
of trade, which roo surely and endily i is asserting its | stand frost 
and m h | 
soon find “thelr level The cynical sneers of Florist 
Lid M dq men who peet to the class of “ Messrs. | F: 
eas o C 
earnought on the table as a winter vi 
Dor ioni P dud unless gardeners w remunera b." A Gardener.—— | aside prejudice and t 
for their exertions they would E injure their | [Bong CK = on this subject. We Printed the e tribe, ev s 
health showing at all. ot alluding 4 ist’s” lette: to elicit whether the feel once pronounce it sapere Wo anything until spring, 
ð the cultiva of j o g Pes llec- to w sie he gave expression was at all LESE fit when the ipat lis come in. € Lesen wits best 
tions in the course of the season, but to the back — the employers of gardeners. Such does not|judges as to its value, and arou! ere I reside the 
and bone exhibitor—the men, in fact, on whom the | appear to be the case, if w woes are to Sage by. the sileno doit wow pru seems to LT su in a 
societies are dependen make their shows. If] of those who are, e most i erested; and indeed t e all other winter vegetables. Francis 
*: Florist " will let 57, n 
y Sas 
as employers beri if they had wis! bei at! Castle Kennedy Fig.—l consider the letter of Mi 
rted, T. th m:non sense view of the I "pes have alter ed the present system. riously Fowler, at p. 1228, quite satisfactory. From the is 
question, the prize cards hae indicate the m orist,” whether he|cription he ps of the fruit, it seems probable 
“So and So, gardener to A. B., ," is the usual w mature consideration think it beneath him to | that the old and formerly n ected tree at Stranraer, 
in which th and, distort | it how he Sba moe a race tyes n fair open competition at a garden | remained the sole representative js hinges a 
I don’ “ ist” riia improve the truth or the er ove rig cultivated by Miller, and which idm first on his 
-—— 9 any gentleman wi his plants exhibi Of A T 
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er scale. Paniog as |b 
sentence, | 1861 y. 
North Elswick.—In cud autumn of list. - Vy Men eu eee € veg A 
Tred some remarks of min i the 1 irn e" This 
North Elswick, in the county of was well ma to Miller, ya ds Ste he 
states tha’ ot his No. 1 is —Q ys got T — 
: I should think J managers of | 
Societies k; Loe business too well to xS 
Present course, unless they 
ct ve wp ram it than any Tat 
"E A7 non- Let ask | 
hne as “ Faunus” really kios. any- 
Dui mis bont s si ting or the labour it entails; 
T gardener 
i of the Gowlands Nursery, a | and therefore larger than t 
principle as then comparatively unknown, but | highly of ‘ite earliness, har or does 
br Iam isa "to o find is now becoming the rule in| he say eny ge Siüpemgiag, ch cj Tlabinit y to 
grate rather than the exception. Formerly|crack in wet seasons, like many other Lue: -skinned 
the e construc Vin was a very cost! 3 = its. qr calls it the Large Ber wn or Chestnut Ischia ; 
sed the pes nd was first exc: to the eus Brown Ischia, which is arg another 
able erwise rendered 
depth, then oncle 3 
to the filtration of water, the effect of which | Jal Ho 
zi bottom | ¥ 
of the border. 
ng he uu rere: 
were plan 
wall plate, y which is is 
Tis woke have there we ment they 
feet by a small b As an exhibitor fo 
Th 
to the pindeners alae as ped 
aé his opinion A d of the employers, and gives it | 
them to the f, i 
and floral citis ae injurious to foricult 
pac nEn: the ameliorating a qm inence [the g 
yof 
hows. 
the latter 12 of which I dim 
reat metropolitan Ma. I think I 
hich werelpermitted, with a pardonable amount of egot 
On May 15, 1858, 38 Vines, one 
