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atmosphere. While the plants are growing supplies it has been in existence is entirely its own fault. rate of production I ene шр ен еч cottages be 
f weak tepid liquid manure may with advantage be The committee and members were content to meet found for foremen who t des o get married, 
applied at the two or three times a week, year after year ье t taking any steps whatever, so that they would rale rs Mens B to remain in 
ays providing that the application of water other than by th mmendation of its members to the service as such for a much longer time than 
thereat is necessary that number of times. ake the existe the Society known, and yet it presen ost cases I believe young 
teadily progressed, and at the present time it can ore anxious to get away from discomforts of 
pay twenty shillings in the pound, and have a hand the bothy than to get a head place; so that, by pr 
rese r think ould be extremely Мет. cottages for emen 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
Pire е — “ For — 4 بوا‎ э-н 
of а soc r gardeners lêk above 
аА койша : а novel element into benefi ie 
ciated nature. In the case 
established to afford help in times of sickness or 
death, a safe basis is ла: in tables prepared by t 
Registrar-General, an erefore needful БОМБ 
tions сап be exactly кс to ensure solvency ; 
but it is hard to see how any basis can be found for 
а system of payments in relief in the case of want 
of employment а as there i 
d 
could register a 
the objects are beni as eA course all such objects 
much Tore f may be 
& con umber of е. and probabl 
mostly itous ones, to fail bec it wa 
— E the numbers out of place demand- 
ing h were far out o P to the per- 
centage "anticipated by the promoters. “ Forester ” 
thinks if a cannot secure a situation 
in NN dicite, n he not wa one, 
but it is obvious that the formation of thi 
self-help w^ ys not increase the number of 
situations, whilst it is certain that the number of 
eners, and ction applicants for situations, 
is age ut the payment of 10s. or 15s. per 
week of place for six months, whilst 
most helpful iss all a! not improbably serve to- 
induce some to be less anxious to obtain Locos than 
now, so that diee would be every prospect that the 
society's funds would s n be е up 4 aks 
“ Fore: € assumes that at se eee 
100 members, | £145 w d be 
What interest "а to 
d 
at а sanguine те may outrun 
business discretion, - proposed sum of 2s. 64. 
expenses jolis very large, 
r 100 members. I 
is done for 1s num, and there are 
over 1 ‚ SO that the work is h x 
cannot friendly societies be conducted upon similer 
economical m s? I submit these objedini to 
the consideration of “ Forester" and others, 4. D. 
ENERS' e SOCIETIES.—I notice in 
the pee of" е r," in the last issue e = Gar 
deners’ Ch that da refers to the Uni 3 Horti- 
asks why ie Society beinga sick benefit dee onl and 
mber 
to join a sick 
benefit society, an am convinced that the ey will 
find in the United Horticult ural Providen 
t n 
y. am also 
scheme vend ventilated in 
will mee h the success so 
ES, Dauh Finches, Lindfi 
THE UNITED HORTICULTURAL рат 
АМО BENEFIT SOCIETY.— That this use 
Progress dusting the t 
р rust it 
ood Ук "idea deserves. 
gove : 
Withont "vem 
ful Society 
twenty years 
is. During the past four e more 
publicity has been givei it b f notices of 
its annual sete having appeared in the gardening 
ress; and one gratifying result is that the number 
of mem Fha as nearly doubled within that time. 
Even now it pres So light fa ar мүр much under the 
bushel im со — ‘va eve ^de mon a 
ee ers are ава ded. 
беш ary à SENA that the young ga ardeners исак! 
become interested in it, because it enco es habits 
of thrift, and M making of provision te times of 
sickness il age. I want the nurs ar and seed 
firms to por it by DOr) subscriptions, be- 
it is a good — = boe ser Mod sine ourage-‏ ا 
ent; but it is wd gardeners wh derive 
benefit from it. in cite pes t 
state that M. n ry members have 
joined the Society since Christmas. Such honorary 
subscriptio n be utilised for the management 
fund, and thus supply means 2 giving Cier p 
licity to the be es efits accruing fi mbership. 
There is plenty of room for a ird velim. "Self-Help 
Society also. There is no necessity for decrying о 
at the expense of the other. They will stand or fall 
according to their merits ; and ^ still think, ин 
= ers" criticism, that the United Hort cul- 
Benefit fit Society is well wonky 
e 
rt of gardeners 
ALPINE DWARF PHLOXES, P. 
P. NELSONI.—To fill up the pos iter: the bulbs 
cease flowerin 
double Poe 
5 rd foliag 
ike on one >т them Sexi 
; growing an E 
intermissio Both in bloom in 
me for the ма fortnight, W. J. Murphy, Clonme 
by ag THAN GARDENS.—Und 
“F, 
0 e but a meagre 
eve of the subject, or ‚е Pietas not write as 
e 
correct— dr a remed th 
would the “ антона 7 by employers of premium- 
taking " make any re gens difference in the number of 
gardeners. the contrary, I am of wd ion it 
wonld not reduce the num ей T apprent 
Single halt dozen rud thec 
oice 
about the same expense. e matter is one of 
economy for Piece employer, and credit to the 
ener; and the gardener's are sila his em- 
pice? is of ris more Mage small к 
mium — Mirta tion. Woe Lt 
would say it is to be 
em. Under this камы 
married 
ed fro 
dit X here the evil Pam I 
found in the bothy syst 
e rate at 
are brought fito rem business, find it is 
quite impossible for even a reasonable e proportion 
ae to get head places. By way of reducing the 
the fore 
deriv incom pi and the man 
vies e to fil properly head place 
n ең R. Bell, Morton Hall, "Midlothian, 
[We have received numerous ры on this subject, 
‚ Ep] 
for Which we cannot find roo 
THE WEATHER IN LANCASHIRE.—If a custom 
of observing the 1st of May with a “Jack in the Green 
and other sprite 
put was covered over wi r 
trees, the newly expanded shoots of spr [Our 
Jack was covered with Ivy]. ch a custom 
prevailed in this part of the country, it would 
ha been impossible to have ilt such 
ит in the month of May. 
Forest trees with us ill i 
jv ow: 
a little green, 
paei ° but the 
Im eches, Birches, flans s, and Sycamores, 
Oak r Labu urnums, are still мае а её 
of any s rt—in fact the buds o many h not 
burst, the woods in "this district having d same 
bare appearance as Et have рас for the past 
ғ ы. eg 
n 
'B 
e 
= 
t i im 
Damson blossoms are now to be seen. 
e n rved any expanded blooms 
any standard or pyramidal er Apples, or Dam- 
sons, It is to e may sS speedily bave á 
have had but fi 
However: 
DIOLI : RE OF ENDAN г —As it 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle who may be hes 
eat de; o frequently d of failure, go 
and d Spei oit m comm sg Ê heir culture. 
ing to ee tha any person, їп 
ith 
olim: ti 
better commence with a 
had fi e: few vue ce 2: as а rule they 
dde or desirable. 
or certificated varieties recently put in co 
ith those 
if well grown give teniye 
blooms to a ы к sul generally two spikes 
and into each bloom you 
same corm, ап 
closed hand, бш thont “spikes kes and take them in- 
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