JULY 11, 1874.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
43 
; oo a nuisance, and it remains to be seen whether 
If he has not money half his 
e or other part of his plots would be 
, bat not too large a garden or 
T allotment, or both, ‘the labourer will be better off 
a without his 5 acres than with i 
| We venture to say that the most wretched hovels, 
4 and the most wretched occupants of them, are those 
They have somehow 
; they either cannot, or will not, do 
; their families are thus badly brought 
a xury, requiring 
i} money to purchase it, and he is without the necessary 
means, so he is poorer than the man who supplies his 
daily wants by his labour. We speak thus confidently 
upon this point, not only from a wide range of obser- 
vation, but from having offered land to labourers who 
ad saved enough capital for such a venture, but we 
ould not get them to ipe it in so oer. an under- 
‘4 taking as managing a 
y We take it for miid then, that iait. at the non- 
‘sense talked about this matter is not for the good of 
the sp industrious and saving labourer ; he of a 
ion now better, as he will see most clearly that 
he m ak for profit is really very small, where 
money and the best appliances are at comman 
— 
aa 
— 
WHEAT Prospecrs,—We are glad to be ep to 
tate from both observation and inquiry that at pre- 
_ sent the Wheat Sor is is freer from blight 7 ned kind 
use than usual ; the ears ms are unusually clean, 
nd neither insects i blights have shown themselves 
o any extent. 
Barley is somewhat smutted, as we observ 
ferions black ear from the attack of Uredo segetum, 
but it is by no means so general as we have seen it in 
ns 
pu Sialic of gg 
A Aggro on Watch-work, Past and oe 
L. Ne Ithro opp, M.A., F.S:A, 
London: E. 
e Rev. H. 
With, Tibesti & F Spon 
New York : 446, Deion 
48, mite | Cross, 
Stree 
If we were to ask our readers, ‘‘ Why is Horticulture 
ur dignity for awhile, we were amusing them with a 
; s 
t ot ts (though 
ræ might), and a a indifferent © the annual 
mount of rainfall, so long, at least, as they are out of 
_ the reach of it 
Rati is and watch-work thrive side by side. 
Amidst the i sionmenee variety of Swiss scenery there 
localities especially suited to the production of 
rapes 
up prosperous populations in 
enriched by cash sprinkled sa 
. They have their interest, but no 
a kind to make them the fashion or to attract ‘the 
k principal of these industrious mountain ts 
haux-de-Fonds, on the Jura range, in the pesien 
euchâtel, _ whi i 
ther Swiss a y their 
, on the other h 
heir peculiarly manufa eneervaree limate. Y 
may reach Chaux-de-Fo m the town and lake of 
atel by a railway kb an in length, 
d, we belie hen the steepest 
ient hitherto known ; but now there is a rail- 
way to the top of the has been a railway u 
Cenis, ese days be a railway 
OLTLTEd 
a = tte a they might think that, ara down - 
the interior is not 
ings in which a watch is — from beginning to end. 
The Chaux-de-Fonds houses are, strictly speaking, 
watch gee ed pape ohne an 9 ensive business— 
20,000 wat at eratan having a large ca 
others but in ae small w i 
work, 
eee Nese 
ag factories 
wal ad eon e machinery i 
adapted to eath particular part Pai which it is designed, 
the genius of man 
a machine which wi 
merap ome og pins or horseshoe nails, ready 
x-de-Fonds watch finishers have 
in Rad the Several. pih — bape ey give out gene- 
a do o-doz 
rally in a dozen or at a time to each 
class of thet -peo oe be mma when the portion 
of work which is E: speciality is completed, for = 
aie er ma man) always does only o 
chief hotel of the town—the Fleur-de-lys—is 
fiaanaened by purchasers, commercial traoii, often 
If trade a bei. 
m 
. e large and wealthy 
finishers receive the travellers in their counting- 
houses, and exhibit samples of watches varying in 
price wt) 25 to I rancs when taken by the 
gros e, they do not sell single watches ; that 
belongs i the vids ail trade. 
I Gea w short distance off, ae miles 
by rail, a vast number of watches are pro 
Locle = as n napig goes, hold a auii to its 
neighbo ny a a dislike to Locle ‘ta 
ne ahala ess, good w es have Bat the 
but, for style of oik. rte thor holds, for finish om 
ossible 
co 
e 
properly watchmakers, according to English ideas. 
bio supr skilled hands, and only put their names 
k which will bear strict investigation of its 
od o ce S break his ss pep 
asses, he devoted his leisure to the Saly 
remembering the rule, 
a i A 
so completely have timekeepers entered our author’s 
l, that he ranks th t after our babes, if n 
fore them. A good watch should never be allow 
either to catch cold or to suffer from e FH 
” he says, ‘will destroy the finest regulated 
watch, and the wearer is too frequently to bl 
e maker.” ‘It must be especially noted,” ms 
ins ** that atch is much like a child—requir 
treatment ; that is to say, plainly, should not 
be over-indulged to-day and neglected to-morrow. 
ere seit be, firstly, as tee possible kept in one 
y the bow which is attached to th 
handle or "pendent ; secondly, it should be conga to one 
o 
When 
worn during the iy next the body, ‘the temperature 
is eed high, a from 75° to 86° ; at night, wh 
hung t and, the differ 
ea anii Are rong still further by 
selecting a part the i 
ld is extreme; fi S table 
dow, or on the chimney-piece. te—h al- 
lantly, but truly, notes—that rule, ladies seldom 
pay attention to their watches, and consequently are 
Sometimes they 
ey borrow a key just as occa- 
ecessary if the watch is expected to do 
larly. It is well, pnas that the world tig know 
what ill-used t things r watches someti 
ines „that a gan 
seller ought not to put his-name on a 
fabri his own matike 
prac- 
‘varieties is admirably given, and the colour 
suggested, but the woodeut does not lend 
to 
volume is a book to pace ripe te at toa 
visit to the South Kensington Museum o avoi 
absolute ignorance respecting the contain and 
liabilities of the watch one carries, To e ial 
punctuality is important ; and although Rainer hori! 
cep a 
tural friends cannot ma e se 
time, they can at least do their bes fag tins 
the ves, to ich Mr. Nelthropp will greatly 
elp them. To to cae about e are some- 
Sarte mend the perusal of 
A pm ope on W. atch. Work, "hat. and Present, 
The Seven Ages of a lage Pauper. By 
George C, T. Bartley. ead & Hall. ) 
This little book is ‘‘dedicated to one million of 
names are now ún- 
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=] 
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of 
that the subjects in question will never yeh pe book, 
or, reading, profit by it ; n5 others may, a the 
means of influencing for good those for whose benefit 
the book is specially inte ndod. glean 
from pave He the little UMAT E m s sketches in 
th, man- 
the ‘village pauper, 
ci he sah results which arise 
from the Poor-law system, which, in place of foster- 
ing and a thrift and self-dependence, holds 
out a Pp um to indolence me less 
The vil is notoriously grea 
remedies p pro posed for i its cure “ its alleviation. 
o +h 
and vation 4 e the 
° One 
by the contrast with which the really deserving ome 
those,‘on the one hand, broken down by age, infirmity, 
or calamity, not of the 
ing upon parish relief in ney i 
with ee and self- Jas pape the other practis 
deceit of all kinds in order t 
How to alter this state o 
problems of the day. Bartley’s proposal is w 
make nger the a of outdoor relief, Those 
that can show that they have tüket precautions 
against pt ey by becoming members of clubs, by 
investi e a and the like, should be 
ey 
ce but to go 
ar that | the same ne 
of EPE which under prese p Aandete vents 
many worthy poor from mes for ee when they 
need it, woul opie wit TRA 
Mr. Bartley’s proposals ae i" 
house would become fuller at fuller of the dissolute, 
e casual in 
the two prefer to see thrift mad 
7 relief, and that indoor relief woot d be adminis- 
oni tc am it should mot 
dread a ô accepted by 
tat a that it should to a certain wee be claimed as a 
right—a right earned by a life and care, 
a atdos relief prt at we be the test, = 
o remove the impression t 
m s 
ae personal interest in the wealth of the country 
n the welfare a their ee either as landed 
proprieto rs on a small scale in the shape of allot- 
dens, ie partners on 
rg te ie method in the f 
factories, or what not in which they are engaged. 
If it sat nce a general eA for the work- 
ing classes to have ‘‘a stake in the country,” com- 
munity of arises with the e sapita, we should hear 
ae and less of gmi aaa À a peeps hariter capital 
d labour, and so o artley’s many publica- 
ina Laliaste one band Bagi ice this may rie tose 
about, but we much doubt whether the mere saving 
of small sums of money and putting them out to inte- 
rest is either the easiest plan for the poor to adopt, or 
* . moa beneficial if adopted. uld foster 
rrow unwholeso 
esome spirit rather than a profitable 
rini of the resources of mind and Tog 4 
— The Pictorial World, a newly established, - 
well got up, and cheap illustra ted paper, has in its 
last number a a fine P pappe = the Ge peaa of Mr. 
arrison o 
those exhibited ‘at the] late fe Crystal Peace Rose 
As might have been expected, the form of th 
he colour is even 
itself so 
