September 17, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
35 
Veitch’s Bulbs 
FOR 
EARLY FORCING. 
READY FOR IMMEDIATE POTTING. 
EARLYWHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS 
MAGNIFICENT BULBS, OF FINEST QUALITY, 
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EARLY PAPER-WHITE NARCISSUS 
8s. per 100 ; Is. 6d. per doz. 
EARLY DOUBLE ROMAN 
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DUC VAN THOL SINGLE TULIPS, 
OF SORTS, 
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DUC VAN THOL DOUBLE TULIPS, 
RED AND YELLOW, 
3s. 6d. per 100; 6d. per doz. 
For other Bulbs for Forcing, Pot Culture, or Planting, 
see CATALOGUE, forwarded, gratis and 
post free, on application. 
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ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CHELSEA., SAW. 
FRUIT TREES FOR THE NORTH 
and SCOTLAND. 
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AUTUMN CATALOGUE 
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Splendid bulbs, Is. 9 d. doz., 12s. 100, for 'present planting. 
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STRAWBERRIES. 
Leading sorts at 3s. per 100, Carriage Paid. Cash with order. 
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Nursery, Forest Gate, by Protheroe & Morris. Sales of 
Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s and Stevens’ Rooms. 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Allotment Gardens. 35 
Apples, large Market.43 
Aspasia lunata superba .... 44 
Auriculas . 46 
Blickling Hall . 36 
Brunsvigia Josephince. 43 
Carnations and Picotees.... 39 
Catasetum Bungerothii .... 44 
Dahlias, Single. 43 
Floriculture . 46 
Fuchsias, new seedling .... 36 
Gardeners’ Calendar ...... 43 
Horticultural Societies .... 44 
PAGE 
Liverpool, notes from. 42 
Mimicry in Plants . 42 
Narcissus cyclamineus .... 41 
Nephrolepis Duffii . 40 
Onions at Hackwood. 42 
Phoenocoma prolifera 
Barnesii . 38 
Phlox Drummondi. 41 
Plants, hardy v. soft-wooded 38 
Royal Horticultural Society 3S 
Somerset Dahlia Grower.... 40 
Travellers’ Joy. 43 
Vegetables, exhibition. 36 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1887. 
Labourers’ Allotment Gardens.— It is ex¬ 
ceedingly odd to find how very soon after 
the vigorous denunciations indulged in but 
some two years since of the famous “ three 
acres and a cow ” cry, that the present 
Government should have brought in and 
carried through Parliament a measure which 
is not only based on the principle of com¬ 
pulsion, as applied by local authorities, hut 
also allows that every man who may desire 
it, for garden or cow-keeping purposes, may 
have an allotment of, at least, one acre of 
land. Of coiu’se, as may he expected, under 
the peculiar circumstances of the case, the 
measure is less generous than it might be, and 
the proposals are hedged round with. con¬ 
ditions which may too often interfere with 
the full development of the operation of the 
Act. Still, it remains a fact that if but 
some half-dozen small householders in any 
parish will memorialise the rural sanitary 
authority, which is the hoard of guardians, 
to obtain land for allotment purposes within 
easy reach of the petitioners’ residences, this 
authority must proceed to do so, hut will 
still have to obtain the sanction of the 
Local Government Board to the purchase of 
land for the purpose in question. 
The weak jioint of the measure seems to 
be found in the fact that the guardians 
of the poor are elected on the narrowest 
possible basis, and usually for very diverse 
purposes. As a rule, also, they are persons who 
do not altogether sympathise with the labourer 
in his efforts to promote his worldly in¬ 
terests. They rather, being largely employers 
of labour, look •with suspicion upon the 
efforts of the labourer to work for himself; 
and still farther, they are almost invariably 
elected by a jiroperty or cumulative 
system of voting, which is as anomalous as 
it is objectionable. Should the guardians of 
the poor, therefore, refuse to act on the 
prayer of the petitioners, or, at least, place 
obstacles in the way, as they may easily do, 
we fear the labourers’ hopes of getting 
allotments, will, in many places, be dashed 
to the ground. 
The anxiety to rush this measure through 
Parliament during the recent session had no 
doubt a party basis; but it is obvious that 
the great want is the establishment of such 
a system of county and local government as 
shall, in the first place, give every locality 
real representative control through, broadly- 
elected local bodies; and then any measure 
dealing with the difficult subject of the 
provision of allotments for gardens might 
have been worked in the interest of the 
labourers honestly and faithfully. The hill, 
in its passage through the House of Commons, 
met with so much amendment that its 
real provisions cannot now he clearly stated, 
and we will not attempt further detail until 
a copy of the Act is before us. 
It would he a grave matter for regret if 
after such an Act has been passed it should 
he allowed to remain a dead letter, in spite of 
its defects; and local authorities will find it 
hard to obstruct if there exists on the part 
of labourers a real anxiety to have these 
allotments. Of course, the chief point is the 
initiative, in which, whilst many may he 
anxious, yet few may be willing to join, 
because of tlie known jealous nature of 
the men who at present so largely consti¬ 
tute our local boards of guardians. TYe 
should like to he assured that there was real 
demand for these garden allotments, not only 
on the part of the rural, but also of the town 
or urban labourer; for the term is a wide 
one, and includes in this case, we take it, 
all who labour in whatever grade or occu¬ 
pation they may. It is doubtful whether 
there is not really more desire for these 
gardens on the part of urban workers than 
in the purely rural districts. In the latter 
case there are often fairly good gardens 
attached to cottages, whilst in and near 
towns there are none. The town labourer or 
mechanic is, as experience has shown, in¬ 
variably an intelligent gardener, and in spite 
of difficulties incidental to distance and 
avocation, yet finds in gardening not only 
beneficial work, but pleasant recreation. 
The rural labourer usually makes, in the 
summer, longer hours of work, and is also very 
