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profession. For the chief positions connected with the manage- 

 ment of landed property — such as agents, stewards, over- 

 seers, bailiffs, foresters, and the like — gardeners of ability and 

 good repute have always been eligible and in demand ; and in 

 the lucrative appointments of a corresponding nature in foreign 

 countries and British territories abroad they command a large 

 and increasing share. As planters and managers of plantations, 

 as well as in their own special province of horticulture, they 

 have long attained to eminent success in India and the Colonies, 

 and hence the demand for their services in positions of responsi- 

 bility connected with the cultivation of land and its products. 

 With so many desirable fields of enterprise open to them for the 

 exercise of their abilities and energies, gardeners as a class have 

 no reason to complain of the want of a good opportunity to reap 

 a fair share of the spoils of the world that fall to capable and 

 industrious men. Their early training, laborious though it be, 

 inculcates habits of self-reliance, steady perseverance, and readi- 

 ness of thought and action to meet and surmount difficulties as 

 they arise, which render well-trained gardeners particularly 

 eligible for positions of trust and responsibility, and hence, no 

 doubt, the confidence placed in them by their employers at home 

 and abroad. Long may such excellent relations flourish and 

 prevail between gardeners and their employers. 



LORD BUTE'S VINEYARDS IN SOUTH WALES. 



By Mr. A. Pettigrew, F.R.H.S. 



[Read September 11, 1894.] 



The experiment made by the Marquis of Bute nineteen years 

 ago at Castle Coch of planting a vineyard in the open air in this 

 country was a good deal criticised at first. Some of the critics 

 predicted that the vines would never succeed in murky Glamor- 

 gan, and that the scheme was sure to end in failure. One of the 

 comic newspapers attempted to extract a little fun out of it, 

 saying that if ever wine was made from the vineyard it would 

 take four men to drink it — two to hold the victim and one to 

 pour it down his throat. Funny Folks took a more cheerful 



