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Editors. do not hold меа а Те 
opinions expressed pondents.) 
Wage: ip suggestion of An 
- 194 that the time has come 
reply leta, An 
page ^93) and A Nurseryman 
would point out that they 
t 
iss e —i.e., the 
a gardener to live decently as 
g and other things. Gar- 
ers are demanding higher w to enable 
ab meet the existing very high 
e necessa f life Gardeners 
e most loyal, conscientious and in- 
igent workers of the rld, th the 
the gardens of land are 
the best in the world; that 
ld ask why th orkers in 
td (they produce the 
i ood) should be expected 
work for considerably less tha labourer 
thi eryman 
bee a man wor 
than a 
I submit that the land worker 
should be paid, not less than other 
The es An loyer 
s of as being the wages given head 
worth, pre-war days, 
r week at a liberal esti- 
i “ atio: 
al journals. Is 
illed than scavengers, farm a 
ra the со 
men ardeners. No employer 
ignorance as to the cost «d redd Which 
includes all the nece y commodities 
а househ ehold. 
ee en Hu 
given a silent re to 
ar “gardenia ening and taking up 
e remunerative employment and they will 
followed by a great many more if present 
conditi are not improved. This 
б de regretted, for garden "a are scarce 
nationa] asset. S. 
ы from the 
Asso- 
кшп, should ш 
paid by employers. 
" people who. employ single-handed gar- 
= 
THE GARDENERS’ 
deners (who, by th 
gan та cannot affo 
are seldom trained 
rd to pay 
e way, 
ith en nd in 
ublic capacitie: know uch of their 
affairs, And can say fearlessly thai 
he no gen truth whate 1 е 
statement that ‘no worker i more liable to 
pety, victimisation than the gardener, 
пати districts. DE An Employer. 
Blight (see page 
185). — Has 
Market oom taken any particular notice of 
our little friend the ladybird? I think he will 
Fie. 105 
PEAR WINTER PEACH ; A DESSERT 
VARIETY, IN SEASON -DECEMBER-JANUARY. 
find that he has to mares the lad bird for- the 
with this penk: 
È trees 
found the 
ladybirds, and they are 
Aphis as if they had 
Paseo ай е тт. Dorkin 
Dwellings 
Wareham 
New 
Greatly to my surprise, one day 
es were says -— hundreds of 
OW as c 
been we 
g- 
Gardens.—With such 
a vast amount of ена te be invested in 
ing 
ccommodation as 
with the site of each dwelling 
CHRONICLE. 
emes and the endless con- 
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in relation to the garden, an essential "— as 
the peas sity pr 
th 
an interview with 
vised tha t not more aped са 
sudo dwellings prp Жез erected to t 
e was im M nig uy ‘ladly 
availed himself of the limit sor his We 
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ac 
choice of crops to be planted. final word 
needs saying in regard to fences that divide the 
gardens ere should be no hed owever 
October Dessert Apples 
‚ 216).—Mr. er apr ktm very 
on this su As 
nsi 
© neve 
understand why Mr. Molyneux should fail to 
mention Rival an October dessert Apple, 
‚ in the сы re and West of Eng- 
land, I have in 
ition “that p^ I have a con- 
siderable liking for this particular "a tg and 
nsider that it should be more Town, 
especially by, + ex-service men settling 
on small-holdings. E so remarkably 
ttractive in appea that it is always 
good ‘‘seller,” Med, in my experience, 
