Arrt 13, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
cases this may be 30; but let him examine 
boys of the working-class ses, who leave achool at 
12 14, and he will find that the 
po possible, and highly —— 
that lad — wit i 
the age of 12 would outatrip them in the race, 
Take the educated and efficient gardener at the age 
of 30 or children; and the 
uneducated and equally efficient gardener at the 
tame age, with a wife and no ch » and send 
them to apply for a well-paid post with cottage, the 
latter, as it usually happens, not far the ma 
sion, and uld soon in if it were educated 
or uneducated who gained the post, eferring 
to Mr, Bowlers self-denial clause, it will 
found tha young man studiously inclined 
will “go in for it;” but if ung man have n 
420 for study, he will never see the neces- 
sity of it, and yet will win in the Gardeners’ Handi- 
which it is not always the best man who 
front, and not 3 the weakest who 
goes to the wall. It would do our young gardeners 
yet in the completest I of — erm it makes him 
is would depend entirely 
upon the claes of place ti thathe filled, If the man ehould 
be fortunatè enoug . a position, with men 
under him, and scope Alger to display his abilities, 
and a good salary to boot, he would then feel 
that he had achieved something, and his education 
would be a consolation to him. On the other han 
if he be unfortunate, with wife and chilare 
&e. sa ese men would constan ity feel that 
A oh were 
their education m 
the delightful and invigorating recreation of ranning 
a heavy ro ound a drive, or doi rd day’s 
tramp behind the ee. such a 
earty zest as these u with 
astimes req 
alacrity that employers in this class of place demand, 
W, G., Frythesden Gardens, 
FRICKE’6 LILY OF THE VALLEY.—The note in 
the iasue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, March 30, 
from your Berlin corresponden 
Fricke’s new variety of the Lily of the Valley, will 
aders rub their eyes, e state- 
size certainly requires attention, 
think that a mistake has been m ysi- 
ology of the Lily of the Valley is an exceedingly 
interesting one, an = ao 
tions, s0 to a been so regular, that not 
eyen the soft persuasions of toy moat skilful © culti- 
r have hitherto been able to in the 
to boot, “a small silver medal” does not 
seem to me to be at all a sufficient recognition of 
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467 
his labours. Perhaps he bimself will explain to 
r English readers how the little affair is 
managed, if it be not a trade secret.” W, Roberts, 
BISEXUAL HAZEL. 
ustration (ag. er. s taken from catkins 
obligingly — by the 
near St. Asaph. 
e 
o it by Mr, Newdigate 
not ourselves pores it in the Hazel. 
SOCIETIES. 
8 HORTICULTURAL. 
Arn — The usual fortnightly meeting was 
held a rs Drill Hall, J 
trating very successful cultivation, apart 
intrinsic value of the species themselves. 2 
isette from Diemer 
hibit of Tea and No 
Fia, 67.—-HAZ EL 3 d arig MALE AND FEMALE 
FLO 
and another from Canterbury, were the subjects of 
muc go rom the er . uality of 955 
bloo ruit Committee, oie ver, had work 
only of the lightest adidas. 
Floral Committee. 
Present: John Fraser, Esq, Chairman ; 
essrs. J. Laing, S. A de Graaf, C. T. Dr — A. 
Herbst, R. Dean, R. Owen, G. Stevens, R. B Lowe, 
J. Jennings, W. Bain, J. D. P a J. — e. C. E 
28 E. Beckett, a Noble, J. T. Bennett-Prë, 
r, C. E. Shea, E. Male ey, 6. Faul and 
C. J, — 
12 ye Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, London, 
pretty group 
foliage and Sonen owering plante. Several 
neluding named the Ri 
— n, rs much ae and a ide n 
cluding t very fine Ariea bP — arry Veite 
— Comtesse de ons. Léon N 
orange-scar 
Two varieties of Richardia, one called Re 
— the other R hastata, were also shown. The 
— — leaves, spotted white, and 
— e those R. which is 
well known — Flora Medal al). 
Earl Cowper, Panshanger, rts ( A 
again exhibited sprays of Beaumontia grandifora 
superba ; also sprays of Cestrum (Habrothamnus) 
cabra, and of Psyc —— x coer ora, with white 
. — flowe inflorescence of 
ordyline (Dracwna) — with tiny whit 
owers, was shown. 
Messra. Jno, Peed & wo a sob Nar- 
series, Norwood Road, Lo „S. E., exhibited a 
group of — Bt ae, o small and — 
e, There wenty es, 
including D. Su Sanderane ( (Si ver Banksian Medal). 
ea an b 
E 
ii 
f 
well — — 1 in colour and in form (Silver~ 
al). 
gilt 
— collection of Roses one wn by Mr, 
series, — N. 
t thirty-six — also of very 
R merit; Catherine Mermet, Maréchal Niel, 
Madame de Watteville, and others were noticeable 
nes and Hippeastruma was 
aul & Son, the Old Nurseries 
— of the ri nas shown 
were raised at Cheshunt, and are very ty. Comet, 
a yellow one, eae and flaked with ecarlet ; Mre, 
Tasker, with 
eting ; and among the 
p me, the — erer bury, Emperor 
William, Lad im e, and — others were ve 
and interesting exhibit was made by 
wrence 3 d orking 
(gr., Mr. Bain), including about twenty plants of 
hybrid varieties of Anthurium, all of them ve 
oy ree. and varied, — Award of Merit 
com 
but in grea egree in the amount and 
style of colouring, — a self scarlet to pure . 
a era or veining are infini 
A. Scherzerianum parisiense has a spathe of flu shea 
N. throughout. 2 $ spate of A. Bar 9 
pete 
— ea A First- ers rae was eee, 
ae 
cristata}, ving ab 
cecin Sir T. : 
pacem = Fiora Medal). a 
LoT i ma a borer 
of ee e nee, some profusely- flowered 
