February 16, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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election as the Birmingham men have done 
in this case, also to obtain the whole of 
the returns, get them tabulated, making one 
grand election out of the whole, and thus, 
as it were, to focus the opinions of the vast 
body of gardeners of the kingdom in relation 
to the best vegetables and fruits, and, it 
may be hoped, of other things also. A small 
committee might easily he formed in London 
willing to undertake the final tabulation of 
the election returns, and the result would 
then have the widest publication. So much 
is possible; it remains with the local societies 
to put it into practice. 
HThe “ Good Old Times.”— Whilst we who 
are favoured to live in this year of grace, 
1889, are about to exhibit our wealth of edible 
vegetables, by holding a grand conference and 
exhibition of these at Chiswick next autumn, 
it is worth turning back to that page of 
history presented in some one or two centuries 
since, to see how our forefathers fared in 
respect of garden products. The review is 
not calculated to make us wish for a return 
to the “ good old times ”; indeed, our 
condition to-day is a thousand times better 
dietetically than was that of the people who 
lived some 200 years ago. It is very probable 
that even the poorest of town labourers can 
purchase and enjoy a richer and more varied 
diet at small cost than was enjoyed by the 
Virgin Queen herself, or the nobles of her 
court. We give on another page a short extract 
from a recently written article on vegetable 
food, which shows the poverty of edible 
vegetables in a remarkable way, to which our 
forefathers were subject. Then the chief 
fare seemed to consist of very coarse bread 
and doubtless equally coarse meat; now we 
have such a wealth of fruits and vegetables, 
all of the highest dietetic forms, that we can 
dispense with meat altogether, a fact worthy 
of remembrance should Avar or other mis¬ 
fortune come to the kingdom. Yerily Ave 
prefer the modern days with plenty and 
cheapness to the “good old times” with 
scarcity and dearness. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 394. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1889. 
C TT Vegetable Election. —We publish on 
JA another page the results of a vegetable 
election, conducted by the members of that very 
admirable and practical body, the Birmingham 
and Midland Counties Gardeners’ Association. 
Generally there is little to find fault Avitli 
in the nature of the election, whilst in the 
actual performance there is very much to 
commend. One of the difficult points in 
the management of associations of this kind 
is the getting of all the members, not only 
to feel interested in the society’s operations, 
hut also to take an active part in them. 
This election has been just the kind of thing to 
promote that end, and Ave should like to see 
the Birmingham gardeners doing the same 
thing in relation to fruits, and also to some 
kinds of flowers. 
It Avould also be desirable if the members 
of similar societies Avould do likewise, and 
still further, if some forty or fifty such societies 
acted in the same Avay. Assuming that there 
are so many gardeners’ mutual improvement 
societies in the kingdom, it might be jAossible, 
each society having conducted its own 
T|\ean Hole. —The Dean of Rochester is 
Gr not exactly a replica of Dean Swift, 
hut he is at least one of the most hum¬ 
orous and jovial of clerics, and Ave are de¬ 
lighted to find him at Rochester in the old 
Caunton form. A correspondent of our 
contemporary, The Garden, has put to the 
worthy Dean, amongst others, the question 
concerning that lovely Tea Rose, Madame 
Lambard, “What is its market value 1” “I 
cannot say,” is the reply; “I have a stall in 
Rochester Cathedral, hut not in CoAmnt 
Garden Market.” That is at once a thoroughly 
Avitty as Avell as a genial rejoinder. Perhaps 
some cynic may iioav wish to knoAv some¬ 
thing of the relative value of the stalls in 
question, but there can hardly be a doubt 
but that Rochester takes the cake. Other 
replies indicate that Madame Lambard Rose 
is, after all, not one of the best market 
varieties. 
By-the-bye, Ave are exceedingly pleased to 
find that Dean Hole is the president of the 
Rose Conference Avhich is to be held at 
Chiswick during the summer. A happier 
selection could hardly have been made, and the 
worthy Dean, Avith the “Rose” in his hat, his 
“apron” and his “gaiters,” Avill himself prove 
a formidable competitor Avith the Roses in 
attractiveness. It is to he hoped that his 
clerical duties will he light during the 
progress of that event, and that Rochester’s 
loss may he Chiswick’s gain. Should some 
Prime Minister so duly regard the merits 
of our Rosarian Dean as to translate him 
to a bishopric, Ave hope it Avill he to 
some See in which the Rose luxuriates: 
Oxford, Hereford, and Salisbury, all have 
distinguished Rose Associations. Whether 
