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of sunshine in the early months of the year adequate shade is 

 afforded to protect the young growths, which might otherwise 

 be ruined whilst in their most tender stage of development. 



THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GARDENERS AND 

 THEIR EMPLOYERS. 



By Mr. Malcolm Dunn, F.R.H.S. 

 [Eead August 28, 1894.] 



The subject on which I have been requested by the Council of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society to speak is one requiring much careful 

 thought and a close discrimination of the various points, so that 

 they may be clearly denned, and the subject dealt with in a 

 spirit of fairness to all parties. It is, however, impossible in 

 a paper of this description to discuss at length the numerous 

 points of the subject in all their bearings, and therefore I must 

 of necessity confine my remarks to the more prominent features 

 of the question, and endeavour to treat them in as exhaustive 

 a manner as time will permit. I am fully aware of the great diffi- 

 culty there is in making a selection of the heads of the subject,, 

 so as to meet the views of all who are directly interested in the 

 question ; but whatever I may omit under present exigencies will 

 not, I hope, materially detract from the usefulness of the remarks 

 I shall make on the points I have chosen for discussion. 



In the widest sense of the term, gardeners are a very nume- 

 rous family, comprising several distinct and important branches, 

 but all springing from the same root-stock, and more or less 

 merging into each other. There is (1) the professional gar- 

 dener, employed in the gardens of the wealthy, and with whom 

 chiefly, and his employer, this paper deals ; (2) the landscape 

 gardener, whose duties extend far beyond the garden proper ; 

 (3) the botanical gardener, with a somewhat complete know- 

 ledge of botany, and generally employed in the cultivation 

 and management of collections of plants ; (4) the amateur 

 gardener, who is his own employer, and ought to be on good 

 terms with himself, even if his handiwork is not always so 

 successful as he would like ; (5) the public gardener, in 



