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in favour of the landlord, and there is certainly one decided case where a 

 rector was held entitled to remove his hothouses without incurring 

 liability for dilapidations. A private tenant cannot remove a boiler built 

 into the masonry of a greenhouse, but on the other hand it has been held 

 that he is entitled to remove the pipes with heating apparatus connected 

 with such boiler by screws." 



Improvements. 



The same distinction as I have already quoted between the rights of 

 the professional and the amateur grower extends also in other directions, 

 such as compensation for improvements made by a tenant during his 

 tenancy. 



The market gardener is entitled to compensation for such improve- 

 ments as the following : — 



Planting of standard or other fruit trees or fruit bushes permanently 

 set out. 



Planting of strawberry plants ; also asparagus, rhubarb, and other 

 vegetable crops which continue productive for two or more years. 

 Erection or enlargement of buildings ; and 



The application to the land of purchased artificial or other manure. 



The private owner has no rights whatever in this respect. If he 

 chooses to spend money on another person's property he must at the 

 expiration of his tenancy leave all improvements of this kind behind him 

 for the benefit of his landlord, and can claim no compensation. It is, 

 indeed, a curious anomaly that even a nurseryman does not enjoy the 

 protection afforded by the Market Gardeners' Compensation Act, being left 

 to derive such comfort as he may from his common law right to remove 

 nursery trees or plants and his greenhouses. Strong efforts have, how- 

 ever, recently been made to get this anomaly rectified, and there seems 

 good reason to hope that before many months have passed steps will have 

 been taken to place the nursery trade on a better footing in this respect. 

 It is understood to be the intention of the Government to bring in, as 

 soon as pressure of public business will permit, a new Market Gardeners' 

 Compensation Act, and the opportunity will then be found — and, one may 

 hope, seized — of putting the matter right. But it is impossible to hold 

 out any prospect of relief to the amateur grower in this respect. Before 

 leaving the subject of fixtures it may interest nurserymen present to 

 know that although their growing trees are part of their stock in trade it 

 was decided nearly a hundred years ago that their landlord cannot 

 distrain on these trees for arrears of rent. 



Erection of Greenhouses. 



With regard to notices to be given to a local authority before the 

 erection of conservatories or greenhouses much will depend upon the by- 

 laws of the particular town where the premises are situated. These 

 by-laws, of course, vary according to different localities. Before erecting 

 a greenhouse it is, therefore, always wiser to make inquiry of the local 

 authority on the point. It sometimes happens that a greenhouse may be 

 deemed a building for one purpose although not for another purpose. 



