February 27, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
401 
SUPERB 
CELERIES. 
VEITGH’S EARLY ROSE. 
Beautiful new rose-coloured selection, in size, 
habit of growth, and earliness much resembling 
Major Clarke’s, but differing in the colour. 
Per Packet, Is. 6d. 
VEITCH'S 
SUPERB WHITE CELERY. 
The most perfect type of White Celery for table 
use, being a pure white counterpart of the well- 
known Major Clarke's Solid Red. 
Per Packet, Is. 6d. 
MAJOR CLARKE’S FINE 
SOLID RED. 
A splendid red variety for early use. The plants 
are of robust, compact, medium growth, forming 
very solid hearts, which blanch very easily. It 
is very crisp, of excellent flavour, and an extremely 
useful reliable sort. 
Per Packet, Is. 
1^- For full descriptions of the above and other Choice 
Novelties, see SEED CATALOGUE for 1892, 
forwarded post free on application. 
JAMESVETmT&SONS, 
ROYS! EXOTIC HDRSERY, CHELSEA, S.W. 
ORCHIDS. 
THE 
Liverpool Horticultural (Jo. 
(JOHN COWAN) Ltd., 
Have an Immense Stools; of 
ORCHIDS, 
Both Established and Semi-established, 
and they are constantly receiving 
IMPORTATIONS 
from various parts of the world. 
INSPECTION IS YERY EARNESTLY INYITED. 
The Company's Prices are all fixed 
SUTTON’S 
21 - 
COLLECTION 
OF 
Seed Potatoes 
CONSISTING OF 
TWELVE 
OF THE 
BEST SORTS 
a higher court; and an authoritative 
judgment obtained ; and the entire trade 
concerned in the sale of these compounds 
should unite in promoting the appeal, and 
of securing an unquestioned judgment. 
Looked at from the view of the judge of 
the Barnstaple court, it would seem as if 
the law were against the dealers; on the 
other hand, the uncertainties ofthelaw are 
proverbial, and High Court judges may 
place upon the Pharmacy Act, so far as 
it effects the sale of poisons, a very differ¬ 
ent interpretation. Of course if the sale of 
the weed killer be by seedsmen or others 
who are not registered chemists practically 
prohibited, so also must the Hellebore Pow¬ 
der, Paris Green, or any other compounds 
or mixtures which have for their chief base 
a potent poison. 
Were all these things entirely prohibited, 
still there are many useful insecticides that 
would not come within the restricted 
range. Plant enemies however are many, 
and some such as the Potato disease for 
instance are difficult to encounter, except 
through the agency of compounds which 
are powerful enough if so employed to 
destroy human life wholesale. 
FOR THE 
TABLE 
(71t)s. of each). 
SENT CARRIAGE FREE ON RECEIPT OF 
REMITTANCE. 
SUTTON’S SEEDS 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON & SOWS,READINC. 
For Index to Contents see page 409. 
“ Gardening is the purest ot human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon, 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, February 29.—Sale of Hardy Perennials, at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, March 1.—Sale of 5,000 Odontoglossum crispum, 
at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, March 2.—Sale of Azaleas, Roses, &c., 
at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Friday, March 4.— Sale of New Orchids, at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms. 
1% ijlWttl. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 27 th, 1892. 
Tlady Gardeners.— That is distinctly an 
amusing story which is told in another 
column with reference to the Lady Gar¬ 
deners at Sawley. It will be remembered 
that at the time the proposal was made to 
establish a school or training institution 
for ladies as gardeners at Sawley, some 
time since, we referred to it, and perhaps 
in not too complimentary terms. The 
recent trial in the Derby County Court, in 
the action Campbell v. Harriman, was a 
claim on the part of one of the lady students 
for the return of a sum of ^30 for breach 
of contract on the part of the principal to 
instruct her in the art of gardening, and 
for abrupt dismissal. 
It would seem that the principal in¬ 
structed her “Dear Lady Gardeners ” 
through written communications and not 
in person, hence there seemed to have been 
an incorrect interpretation of instructions, 
and ladies, of whom complainant was one, 
refused to go out lifting Potatos at four 
o’clock in the morning, holding that four 
o’clock in the afternoon was meant. Be¬ 
sides, the part the ladies were to perform 
in the rather hard task of lifting Potatos 
was also objected to. They were not to 
dig the Potatos up—that was to be done 
by men of whom the lady principal, in 
writing, said “they could not be of spotless 
character’’—but to go round with the men 
“three ladies to a man,” and carry the 
Potatos to hampers to be placed at the 
end of the rows. 
Well-bred ladies might naturally object 
to some forms of association with men not 
“ of spotless character ” were the labour 
ever so elementary or menial. If women, 
however, will so far forget their station and 
partake in labour which is rough and 
laborious for man, they must not be 
squeamish but take the consequences. To 
our mind the whole thing wears the sem¬ 
blance of a burlesque on woman s sphere 
or vocation. 
as low as possible with the view of 
inducing liberal orders. 
Priced and Descriptive Catalogue 
post free on application to the Co., 
The Vineyard and Nurseries, 
GARST6N nr. LIVERPOOL 
Poisonous Garden Mixtures.— There 
P can be no doubt but that ere this the 
attention of the seed trade, as well as that 
of all engaged in the supply of what are 
termed horticultural necessaries, has been 
seriously given to the interesting report we 
furnished to our readers last week of the 
County Court case at. Barnstaple. That 
such a decision whilst it stands must very 
materially affect the trade in all poisonous 
mixtures employed in horticultural pur¬ 
poses, there can be no doubt. It is to be 
hoped that the matter will be earned into 
f ouNTY Council Horticulture.— We 
have noticed with much satisfaction 
that in reply to a querj 7 addressed to Lord 
Cranbrook, President of the Council, in 
the House of Lords, by Earl Cowper, in 
relation to the permanency or otherwise ot 
the grant now allotted to the County 
Councils, for purposes of technical educa¬ 
tion, obtained from the Beer and Spirit 
Duties, that the President of the Council 
stated distinctly that the grant would be 
continued by the Government, 
