Catalogue of Works on Gardenings fyc. 567 



RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE PLANT DEPARTMENT 

 IN BICTON GARDENS. 



# # * The following Rules to be strictly attended to, and the Fines to be 

 regularly paid each pay-day. The amount collected to be equally 

 divided at the end of the year, or put to some useful purpose, as here- 

 after shall be agreed on. 



Rule d. 



1 . Coming to work on a Monday morning with a dirty shirt - - 3 



2. Coming to work any morning without shoes being laced or tied - 3 



3. Any person employed in these departments found gathering fruit 



with unwashed hands - - - - - -4 



4. Going into any hothouse, greenhouse, &c, or walking on any gravel 



walk, with dirty shoes - - - - - - 3 



5. Taking a wheelbarrow with a dirty wheel on the walks, or in any 



other way making dirt and not immediately cleaning the same up - 3 



6. Leaving any door or gate open in any department of the garden - 3 



7. Leaving any door or gate unlocked, after opening the same, and 



not returning the key to its proper place - - - - 3 



8. Leaving any stoke-hole dirty, not keeping the ashes clean out from 



under the grate, not sifting the cinders once a week - - 3 



9. Leaving any fire at night not in proper trim or order - - 3 

 10. Leaving any thing dangerous in or about the stoke-holes or furnaces 12 

 1J. Leaving a job unfinished, in an unworkmanlike manner - - 3 



12. Making any waste of coals, dropping them about, or not keeping 



them swept clean up together - - - - - 3 



13. Leaving open the cover of any boiler or cistern - - - 6 



14. Smoking a pipe of tobacco in the hours of work - - - 4 



15. Neglecting to grease a wheelbarrow when requisite - - 3 



16. Leaving any tool, wheelbarrow, steps, ladder, water-pot, &c, out of 



its proper place, or putting it away dirty - - - - 3 



17. Leaving rubbish in any hothouse or greenhouse, or in any way 



making dirt and not immediately cleaning the same up - 3 



18. Leaving heaps of grass, weeds, leaves, or any rubbish whatever, 



about pleasure-grounds, borders, walks, &c, for each heap - 3 



19. Carelessly breaking any plant, pan, glass, tool, &c. - - - 3 



20. Breaking any flower-pot with plants in it, and not immediately 



potting the same plants properly - - - - - 6 



21. Neglecting to do a job after having been once told of it - - 3 



the second time - 6 



22. Neglecting to attend to water fountains, &c. - - - 3 



23. Any man found at his work intoxicated shall forfeit his day's wages, 



and be otherwise dealt with as thereafter shall be considered just. 



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



expression - - - - - - -3 



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



Bicton Gardens, Sept. 26. 1 842. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, fyc, lately published, tvith some Account of those 

 considered the more interesting. 



A HISTORY of British Forest Trees, indigenous and introduced. By Prideaux 

 John Selby, F. L. S., M. W. S„ &c. 8vo, pp. 540. Illustrated with a wood- 



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