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К a noted gardener in his day. The Incrtsys have have said that legally gardeners had no position minimum rates if the produce was grown wholly 
E Е. seated at Ripley since the reign of oi their own, and for all purposes of giving and ог partly for sale. The Board is inclined to the 
 Epwarp III., anal the family has received three receiving notice they ranked as dome stic servants. pee that workers in estate or private garde: 
Pbaronetcies. The castle was rebuilt in the reign But under this rank a gardener does not benefit uld not come within the scope of the minimum 
Zt Mary and Purp, and OROMWELL stayed when an employer left a legacy unreservedly to ipi if the produce was grown solely for the 
‘there before the battle of Marston Moor. his domestic servants unless he was (a) living — occupier's private use. The term agriculture f 
М Carnation Conference —'[he Br jos Carnation in the house of his employer, or (b) working for includes the use of land as woodland, and all 
Society will hold a atttem on Carnations on РЕТ? ot a time in the house. Mr. HambiNG workers employed in woodlands, including estat. 
487 the 28th inst., at ou p.m.,at the Offices quot Prof. 4 SHLEY to the effect that a gardener woodmen, would accordingly come within the 
fof the British Florists’ Federation, 35, Wellington is incoherent. That does oe mean he 18 speech scope of the rates, irrespective of whether the 
Street, Covent Garden. The conference will be less or incapable of expressing his views, but produce was sold or not. The following opinions 
8 a Up n 
it means that, generally speaking, gardeners are have been expressed by the 
reet 
4 URL I 
| d by Mr. W. E. WaLLAcE, Eaton Bray, with J 1 s А 
er pt E k 5 isolated, with no means of getting together and specific questions which have 
4. à discussing their position. That diffi culty, said I. That the minimum rates w 
11 Scottish Potato Show іп Edinburgh.—At Ше ур, че RDING, was 2 being overcome by the B.G.A., (a) Gamekeepers; (b) ben ЧАКА: ae in 
$4) recent annual meeting of the So ottish Horticul- which is now a registered trade ind for all killers and rabbit catchers ; (с) clerk working in 
NU ural Association, Mr. ROBERT FIFE announced horticultu orkers over 16 wears of age, and the office of home farm; (d estate sawmil 
WU 3 he Scottish National Potato Exhibition has for Ha main objects the organisation of a engine driver ; p ‘state sawmill labourer ; (#) the 
в would be held in the Waverle; Marke Ed horticultural workers over 16 ni s of age, and o fice staff of a firm of nurserymen and nee smen 
Y. burgh, on October 29 and 50, 19 tions of labour, working hours a wages, and and (g) private and estate gardeners, provided the 
“| News m Belgíum.—Monsieur A. ре SMET, the, settlement of disputes between ogi aie and produce is grown solely for the occupier's pornon 
$42 the well-kno hurseryman, of Laerne, near their employers. Mr. Б ING expressed the use. П. That the minimum rates would apply 
„4! Ghent, Belgium, writes us as followse——2- Evam ҮЗӨМ that as a result o r efforts in food pro to (a) men in charge of h [ breedin g pigs: 
Т very glad to have the opportunity of writing to duction, and the rali E open spaces, ae (b) workers employed on a Res or egi tat ; 
a English nur SN eo Aore ЕН ments, and town-planning schemes, the position (с) grooms employed by stallion owners to 66 
1 : adequately express шу gratitude i5 the British of men hee m этеп свей ners would be greatly after stallions ; (a) apprentices under intus 
mt people for the helping hands they have held out improved in the near future. to a firm of nurserymen; (e) the carter 
Г to the Belgians. id not escape the common 
EE fate е Belgian nurserymen during the war—my 
1 B purse y grounds and a 11 the glasshouses are com- 
16 0 destroyed.’ 
J [ | mula warleye -— ге fig. 15). — s 
j Колы Primula was given the R.H.S. Award 
of Merit when shown Nes ‘Miss WILLMOTT at t 
eeting of the Royal rticultural Society on 
March 26, 1912. It was ER: at Warley Place 
eds collected by Wilson in Western China 
а ustrati ere on was red 
from a photograph taken in those well-known 
M gard It belong o the smaller section of 
the genus, and forms tufts of small, oval leaves 
оп comparatively long, slender petioles 1 
leaves are een above and slightly farinose 
-— beneath, with serrated margin he mauve- 
coloured flowers, about thr m an inch 
in diameter, are produced in umbels of two o! 
three together stems about 1es high 
t is a charming little plant, t, lik ost 
Primulas, requires to be periodically raised from 
| see These are produced freely wl I 
3 it is more suited for culture in pans in a cold 
me. oF 
fram 
а wes ип, 2 à —For a period of sixty 
of Redbraes Nursery, 
859, the x occasion of 384 Ед. 15.—PRIMULA WARLEYENSIS: FLOWERS MAUVE-COLOURED, 
esent yea has nevei 
к sceustomed call. At the Minimum Wages for Gardeners and Estate market gardener employed in carting the жуй 
t he mployed at the Emplo oyees,—Interesting notes on minimum rates to market; (f) men gii. 'ed in private 
| Dick > хр 'o., and he of. wages are given from time to time in the gardens, the produce which is "азид ews 
ny successive calls Wages Board Gazette, the official organ of the от partly for Н 
нао before a visitor аны iltural Wages Board, and in the issue for pri 
gius Keeper Profes LM ‘the present January 15 it is stated that questions are fre- duction. 
— pied that pósitio in " : ME LE id quently raised in correspondence, and also in the ^ carpent 
б McNay was the B : 1 ue х N Кена course of a work of enforcement by the In- layers 
- Mr. GREW ha papal gar рари о. to whether the work in which a pal and usual occupation of the worker w 
sonnel of th н ied changes 1 the per- particular pin ds or class of workers is engaged of 
E. man the р als and staff of garden ed b 
5 SAL à : А comes under the minimum pico of wages fix ру ог 
у reminiscences а сы of his visits, and he W Heard Boz 
i arden of 
3 itro the à pecu ee : 
_ Шап author ve legally bi cisi 
н: Ts the trees and shrabs v есе Lise regard to such questions, which involve the legal work w 
E is still ha le = е pleased to know that construction of terms used in the Corn Produc- but if 
| Я oe and hearty, and it is to be hope : quc do mdp hicl 
d may add many m th БЕРБ Hie tion Act and in the Board's Orders and which ha 
pe Bu visits. у more to the number of ^5 could, therefore, only be authoritatively settled ^ be paid at not le 
J 1 T by a Court of Law. Nevertheless, the Board has А 
D E ee of Gardeners.—The Gardeners’ felt it desirable to give assistance буыл grae рвав 
Ji sideration en at Bristol has had under con- and has expressed opinions e in ivi nal cases, time to 
bs branch d proposal to form itself into a local оп the clear understanding that an expression of be а as an agricultural operation. 
n furtherance d +d apes Gardeners Association. n opinion is without. Pina d POE — Tue Publications кыса —U pited ES Depart 
Bs the Unive 1s movement, a meeting was held term “ agriculture " inclu a e Mob о кя е ал ment of Agriculture Bulletin (Was 
TRI, ersity a few days ago, at which ae market gardens and nursery grounds, and workers Gavernment Printing Office): No. == 
Ban inte ARDING, secretary of the B.G.A., gav employed in estate or e gardens would, in — Beet-Sugar Industry in the United States. By 
a 5 resting lecture, in which he is reported S the Roard’s view, come within the scope of the С. O. Townsend. 
