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8. Taking a wheelbarrow badly laden, or with a dirty wheel, on any 



gravel walk - - - - - - -3 



9. Neglecting to grease a wheelbarrow-wheel when requisite - - 3 



10. Neglecting to do any job after having been once told of it - - 3 



the second time - 6 



11. Neglecting to put" in its proper place any tool, ladder, watering-pot, 



or any thing belonging to the garden - - - - 3 



12. Putting away any of the above-mentioned articles dirty, for each 



article - - - - - - -.3 



13. Leaving any box-edging covered with earth or rubbish when finishing 



a job near the same - - - - - - 3 



14. Leaving any job, in any part of the garden, in an unworkmanlike 



manner - - - - - - - -3 



15. Going to a job near or adjoining a gravel walk, without taking a broom 



with other tools - - - - - - -3 



16. Placing an iron rake against a wall or fence, or laying the same 



on a walk teeth uppermost - - - - - 3 



17. Neglecting to shut any door or gate when required, or to fasten the 



same -.-_-__ .3 



18. Carelessly breaking any tool, glass, or flower-pot - - - 3 



19. Leaving heaps of weeds, leaves, or any other kind of rubbish, about 



the garden when finishing a job - - - - - 3 



20. Smoking a pipe of tobacco in working hours - - - 4 



21. Swearing or making use of bad language, for every separate evil 



expression .- - - - - - -3 



22. Any man found intoxicated in working-hours to forfeit his day's 



wages, and be otherwise dealt with as thereafter shall be considered 

 just. 



23. Any dispute arising as to who had infringed any of the above 



Rules to be settled by arbitration. 



24. Damaging or in any way defacing the above Rules - - 12 



Bicton Gardens, Sept. 27. 1842. 



Letter II. Potting- Bench. Painting Strings for tying Plants. Garden Rules 

 for the Flower-Garden Department. The Palm-house. 



As you wished me to make a few remarks on different plants 

 that you saw here, my treatment of them, their dimensions, &c, 

 I shall commence in my humble way at the potting-bench, that 

 being the first place you entered in the flower-garden depart- 

 ment of these noble gardens, and it being the manufactory of 

 all the hothouse business ; that is to say, sowing, propagating, 

 and potting in all its stages, from the seedling to the mature 

 plant. 



The Potting-Bench is formed of Portland stone slabs, sup- 

 ported by the same standing edgewise, by which means it 

 forms bins or partitions, to keep the different sorts of mould or 

 soil underneath, without getting intermixed with each other. 

 You particularly noticed in what a very rough manner I potted 

 every thing. My reason for so doing is, that I consider we 

 ought to assist nature. If we only take one glance to the right 



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