4—1850.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
1 
EC — S PELARGONIUMS, and other raisers’ 
Flowers.—Now ready for selection and going out. 3 1 
of the following var . yore box and carriage to 
don, will be f hange for e 3 “ea 
— for ‘Two. . — They are well-rooted in 3. inch 
pots, and ready for an im mediate shift into a larger size: 
Blanche, — Cracker, Forget me-not e penen: 
Cru Gustavus, Saflebens, Grandiflora, Junii, Negr 
Or Nine of the above, and | Hoyle’s © s Cra. 
sader, or Foster's Victory 
Epwarp Beck, Wortoa Cottage, Isleworth. 
ATT’S NUS RHUBARB. 
MYATT AND SONS ean confidently recommend 
e best in — tivation. 
od. erh he Trade — Po: — War ers are re- 
Soptfor to be made — to E OSEPH Myatt, Manor Farm, 
tford.— 
ee COLLECTIONS o KITCHEN 
RDEN SEEDS, 
No. 1 c 
ing a 
e — —— 
rec 
3 pints Radish, 1 oz Scorzonera, 2 9 Spinach, 2 lbs, 
Turnips, 1 pkt. Vegetable sgh 1 oz. Salsa ae and 12 pkts. 
Herbs, Chili, Capsicum, &c. we E 0 
No. 2, two-thirds of the above n S A : 
thi 
—This collection is sufficient for a gentleman 
. sized garden 
The great sa’isfaction lee collections have given to some 
cipal 
the pri famili = — — yer 1 Scotland, and 
Wales induces dence to solicit further 
patronage 
s- Ehe 3 couche this year 15 per cent. more 
al in ity. Descriptive Seed Cata- 
All orders to be accom 
kn Nd 
ast, and quite equa quali 
logues may be had on ——— 
panied with a Post-office order from u 
€ king, and d expense 
railway station in London — A ona Hoficultarsl 
, High-street, Maidstone. 
* Cole’s Soper Dwarf Red Celery. is. per packet. 
AP! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!! 
HARLES DALY AND SON beg to refer their friends 
ase pe cheap Irish Y 
d cheap Early Seed Po Potatoes at 5s. per ‘bushel, to their haven: 
3’ Chronicle of the hi of October, and 
Their Catalogue of Garden and 
ged by their customers pa; ying 
They will 
as as hay hava * no wish to put them t 
0 fi 
their last . — 1 
expense. —Coleraiue, 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1850. 
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK: 
28 
FFF +03 P.M. 
Monpay, Jan, = i 8 rom. 
—]]— Ar. u. 
Tuxspar, — 2 0 -> neee rye i 
Wepnaspay, —  30—Society of Arts 8 r. u. 
Tavana; =. $ Anti terry eet verre 155 
Friday, Feb. 1 Rosa e tee — e e 
on 2 r. u. 
Sargavar, 20 Westminster iicdicai e col Piles 
In his column of objections to ArrRENTIeR Fers, 
and of criticisms he as eners, our co dent 
s ERE (p. 38 “ged free we See 
tis. | J 
gardening by ourselves and others. 
naty. hardly thought the point worth an argument; but 
orm 
+|a profession 
employment; 
0 12 611 
intellectual occupa ation. 
d the 
long service, or an expression of approval for 
for ex 
good conduct. Nor can it be denied that the system | gardeners are 10 be found who, in all that is 
works well in good hands, although we admit that it is 
88 like other privileges, scandalously abused 
ipsa her or not how 
matter of ine ar 
as a right to interfere 8 cept b of such 
as we have, Sot we hope 
of Mr. Trorovs’s letter is 
name profession“ 
Ve sho 
ong our to show 
iate. We go i 
e less 3 because no 
one will Nei. us of the slightest 9 of 
55 ising gardeners to a false ging worst thing 
ould befal them, and the last ilag which 
** — friends would. aitem mpt. But, o 
and, we cannot permit them to be Mace below 
since it has 
their undoubted merits, "i e Mr. — seems | nex 
Jounson defines 
React known 
a very incorrec shy mate. 
to be ‘ so se 
adding, The 
delay used of divinity, physic, and law.“ We 
should have thought that the definition of our great |s 
n the other c 
erm profession is 
i 
Ve have no hesitation in asserting that — 3 
essential 
cation, are, we do not say equal, bat 
rdeners’ F eer papers 
g those of the 
own * A 575 con- 
sta to the education, knowledg ge 
social breng of numero 
country; and we e 
= eve 
rue that for c many rea 
A att sta of ute 
is not . in pagg and p 
no 
badly never can a: ; 
25 they should be 
. pme that inhabit ‘the cellars 
but that 
| medichl 
west. 11 it then be 
yt rere rea- 
rms or medicine ate 
ey rank lower than divinity 
xicographer m mighthave te ied d ou ] ot pried 
scruples, and saved the b dne from the | or ok Tan. 
scolding that he has aste 5d. M morous| We seem to have given this matte 
s too intelligent a person not to see that Jonxsox's space than it deserves; for after all, it ee He 
addition is unworthy his reputation ; for if the term | whether a man is oe to follow a profession or 
. is ` be limited to “ divi vinity, physic, and ing. e question has, however, 
what becomes — the professions of arms,marine, us, and we answer "the challe enge; the more readily, 
. — ture, painting, sculpture, and toe, beca to us to involve the v 
others! and what of the professorships of such sub- important question whether a 2 is By bea 
jects, which 1 are create w, and | well educat r a mac rselves 
have as much legal for 
We submit — that 
tion * — g yore ied that it should have | 
stood thus—“ Proression : any calling; hve oh ; 
known employment ; ‘to which taste or science is 
necessary as well as skill.“ This will j found to 
pa _ 1 and mer ae Fe cose ge 
ts; and to include ‘the many va of 
It will 1 the butler 
and the 
erran 
officer, the ne the ardhibects the se p 
painter, and the piisaa 75 fier 
anticipate any objection on the of o si 
spondent to the een of alt piwa vocations 
into the class of professions, except.that 5 ix — 
dener; and we trust that his prefidices his | 
will * overcome. He should consider that, 
in all “ professions,” there are — degrees of talent 
— ae that the examples of highest or lowest talent 
| which is certainly one of 
5 the horticult 
ine, 
t the latadi pe com- 
fort of the aa classes, the employers of gardeners, 
sho 
demand ep uld be the former, and that the 
view of o spondent could ate no other 
effect than that of throwing our g rs back to 
the state in which they were prs! a the ‘Brice 
So many — still reach de concerning 
the Winchester glass and uch anxi 
seems to be felt rit d — about to employ Roven 
Prate Grass in their gardens in the ensuing summer, 
lest they —— become the victims of imposition, 
that we are tempted once more to 
aral questions of the day. ys 
„ Viraxa,“ res ls to know e — Arties I 
buy is what I intend to ay e, when I 
arbitrator 27 
Will Mr. Timorovs say that a 1 legally recognised 1 0 
thecary does not belong to the $a n of pase 
at comman 
award, what is to befal a 
conte lng if — "a “ee mal him? 
h ard m 
roughly is, we att — 
arbitrator allowed himself to = swayed by an 
into Timorous Bat tupid, dirty, or ignora obsolete use of la and was, t a 
if he has failed to touch the substance, thy “blows | fore the vocation of F physic is not a 1 8 at all? ery little saqphanted with the iken upon which 
have fallen fast and = spon shadow. The We think not; and therefore we object to his ex- he gave his decision. Such an example is not 
question we raised was w Bee garden eners are eluding gardening from the professions, for no 5 to be followed; but in case litigation should 
justified in takin — ott Mr. Timorous better reason than because some gardeners have n arise, it is as well tht a 8 buyers should 
disposes of that by a simple negative, and imme- | n — > amil a one. He evi Areng s forgets | be aware of the following im reer, facts, which are 
diately assails the p grer of ca ing g eners pro- that ye what they call | ca va of easy substantia 
fessional men. It is impossible to acquiesce in themselves ; rg a man is oe pen cian be- ise duties were first 1 levied: on on glass in 1695, 
either his fete oases or oe cause he calls himself one, — man they onl reduced one half in 1696, and in 1700 
e expressly Riou fees are not is 3 — mete ecause he assu — chat — ep repealed ; in these Acts of Parliament the term “glass 
to be ian nee fia wit out the sanction of are quack doctors and there are quack gardene „ was employed. In 1746 they were again 
his employer sanction, a gar- Men practise physic, although “thelr education was posed, crown, plate lint, and all o alen 
dener is as much justified in receiving them as that of a pounder of drags men practice gittlening tig | being classed at one rate of duty, and green 
anybody else. “Our opinion was, therefore, against | although they know n re than a bricklayer’s glass at another rate; this was previous o the manu 
A grian having any e right to such ad- labourer. But, surely, il. is s unjust to take such | fact; east 
and consequently, against the the justice of cases as in ications o e status of the It is requisite to bear in mind that won tho duty 
— oA when such fees are disallowed. If callings to w they respectively belong. was osed in 1746 there were two i 
allowed, it is by the pu and favour of the em- We are aware that, by the common law, a head | glass made on the cylinder princip 
ployer. Now what else does Mr. 1 — lives in a house, furnished him 57 his aurires r plate glass nd 
mean, when he says — “ “the employer —) 3 — the „ has m en under d | co y 
rson - = — 
manency t he probation and e of + 
apprentice ” B ot the sanction of the employer, 
which we have ourselves insisted upon, give the 
i 5 
entertain no 
circumstances 
to their advantage to 
ike 
an Ep paa to the gatio at peg 
of es changes much 
doubt ce 
ae favourable, employers n must find it t 
ncourage the i 
Seating thew to Sp an Amat o pg 
ach a permission would be — as a gratuity | T. 
-groun 
is is liable to be anise at 
t, an 
a month's notice, or on 
payment of a month’s w. 
not think | 
