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NOVEMBER 14, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHIRON TICLE. 
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SUTTON & "SONS 
Will have the pleasure of offering through 
the medium of the Royal Horticultural Society 
_ during the ensuing season, 
SIXTEEN 
S873 
3 GOLD, SILVER, and BRONZE MEDALS, 
$ AND VA e betel PRIZES, 
Collections of Vegetables, Flowers, | ¢ 
FRUITS, AND POTATOS, 
As see the eed Jorise; ʻ:— 
Date of Meeting, 1875. 
June 2. Tiz the On, eae 
of each Ist Prize, 
En] Silver Medaland £2 2 0 
hen, d Sotto. i Ae earns Medal and £1 1 0 
For the best fi 
of MELONS xed: Se 5 
sorts of CUCUMB 
brace st Prize, 
Sutt Gold Medaland £3 3 0 
ad Prize, 
ate oe and £2 2 0 
Prize, 
z Bronze aos ae and £1 1 0 
rs ‘ 
Sret ons’ =f st Prize, 
burgh, Silver Medal an d£2 2 0 
Sa d 2d Prize, 
Bronze Medaland £1 1 0 
3 wk col- 
twenty - four 
ewtive rst Prive, 
wc, costing oi Silver eee and £2 2 0 
offered Prize, 
pe = Bronze Medal and P: 10 
for x 
— For thes rst Prize, 
weve D eA e Silver Medaland £2 2 0 
m: NET as 2d Prize, 
. Bronze Medaland £1 1 0 
Por 3 best fiai 
+ a | Pri 
Sines hes e ist Prize, 
ne; 
Gold ee and £3 3 0 
r th - rst Prize, 
dienn) Silver Medal and £2 2 0 
h T esas thet aed Si: Iio 
CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION. 
These 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1874. 
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WINTER READING. 
OW that the a L ana ag days 
and autumnal chills e the fireside 
and a pleasant book purticglasty enjoyable to 
those who are in a position to procure them, a 
mental recreation if they had it within reach, and 
whose use 
leisure hours would in turn much benefit their 
employers. 
Of course, in Pr horticultural establish- 
wns there is either 
often no means at all of getting at a book, 
are thrown for their reading on the parish lend- 
ing library, which (for their special needs) is too 
often but a broken reed to trust to. The forma- 
tion of these len ding libraries in many places 
entertaining and cheerful. Of course excellent 
sometimes forthcoming, but the mass 
of histories of the variety of omer got into Z 
PEEN encumberin ves, ne 
too often of a sort much more likely to send a 
tired man to ee 4 some degree of cheerful- 
ness elsewhere, than to draw him from foreign 
entertainment to his cottage. 
Whilst endeavouring in some degree to meet 
this want in a rural neighbourhood, I have been 
offered piles of old rubbish, for the most part 
sermons, simply because, as the offerers said, 
do not know what to do with them,” and 
the harm these contributions cause is enormous. 
Those who re ad little, and that little when they 
d, want something with a point in it— 
animated 
narrative, ie 
cially o sort jeft as totally unreadable by 
those pétit di; and here, independently a 
lending libraries, some help from resident 
employers, or me of their ilies who 
have leisure to attend o 
to their labourers, 
‘use ; and not the less that it “would frequently i 
consist in a little advice or in writing for a book 
rather than an outlay of money. - 
In some cases ana assistance may be give 
by procuring (not giving) the books wished be 
in some reaso koiil space of time. e rura 
no idea how to procure a book, 
and the bookseller in a little country town wi 
often keep him waiting for weeks till both de 
eisure and inclination for study ae have 
when the book does e he 
probably has to pay full price instead of getting 
enefit of discount, which is no small mai 
where every penny has its use. 
_ Another a where help may be often given 
is in the choice of books ementary 
‘which t 
ful and cheerful occupation of their 
Geology and Botany, Chemistry and Entomo- 
logy, are all useful studies to the young horti- 
culturist desirous of rising in his profession, 
and are sciences of which the smallest amount 
of sound knowledge cannot fail to be of service 
and minutiz 
of classification will do no good, till the 
ns are fixed in his head. 
Occasionally injudicious help disheartens and 
retards a diligent scholar by placing before him 
the very difficulties he need never have coped 
with. There are excellent books on these sub- 
jects to be had, giving general and useful know- 
po clearly and api and also in an enter- 
nin. form, an e aid in procuring these, 
or even in ase ead pee names, will usually 
be very gratefully received 
Another useful and entertaining study to the 
young gardener lies in elementary mathematics. 
The pencil and paper work necessary for draw- 
ing out the few simple problems of service in 
laying out grounds or flower-beds, are amusing 
in ergy sites and may probably lead to some 
of drawing m: 
professionally valuable, 
S 
ing and the relative and 
colour would all be of use and would 
whether of discoveries, travel, arctic or 
tropic life, or anything that has a point in it, 
mai o- natrative with plenty of dialogue, 
illustrations if possible, good type, and, above 
all, as few reflections as may be. For religious 
reading, “Sunday books” as it is expressed, 
I have found the same style—that is, short and 
clear nee pct biography or history, or some 
fact m into an en much 
ht "aitt, and especially ppe in a pme 
na Aae e; but (as far as I can venture to 
ny 3 of lending rural litera- 
judge. 
ture) I should say ry gat with terrifying 
CANVEVE 
sermons laid aside pE they are too dull 
to.be got through, and long religious treatises, 
were decidedly inapplicable. 
The comfort of the readers is much added to 
by good brown paper covers being put on the 
books, which preserves the binding, so that 
reader may study in t his attention 
being distracted by the possible effect of a state 
of fingers not beneficial to smart bindings, but 
as a general thing I have found the lent books 
treated with the greatest care. I cannot re 
any wilful damage being done on any occasion 
by the adult class of borrowers ; and the comfort 
and pleasure of an unfailing source of amuse- 
ment to their people during the. long. winter 
evenings, may > s tempt some some with 
ONE: ‘Garden Plants. 
ci ge emer ge Schott,” , 
sition for covering of a stove or other 
po eo 
eae BEE farnished here and there with = 
aërial roots. Fhe area in Sporna 9—loim 
