May 1, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
517 
TO SUCCEED 
You must start with good plants. All the following 
I gurarantee Ai and good value. Cash returned 
if not satisfactory. 
BEGONIAS. 
io Grand New named singles, H.J.J. set for 1897. 
The best ever seen, 30s. 
12 Grand unnamed s.'ngle kinds, 18s.; 6, 10s. 
12 Very fine single unnamed kinds, 12s.; 6, 6s. 6d. 
12 Very good single unnamed kinds, 6s. ; 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Fine mixed double and single for bedding, 3s. 
50, xos.; 100, 16s. 
12 Grandest double kinds, 26s.; 6, 14s. 
12 Very fine double kinds, 15s.; 6, 8s. 
12 Very good double kinds, 10s. ; 6, 5s 6d. 
12 Very good double mixed colours, 6s.; 6, 3s. 6d. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
12 Grand New Japanese, to include Yellow 
Madame Carnot and Western King for 30s. 
6 To include the above two, 20s. Yellow 
Madame Carnot, separately, 10s. 6d. each. 
12 Very finest 1896 kinds, 7s 6d. 
12 Beautiful kinds, specially selected for cutting, 
4 s. 
12 New Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 7s. 6d. 
12 Good Early Flowering Japanese for Pots or 
Garden, 4 s. 
12 Beautiful Early Flowering Pompons for the 
Garden, 4 s. 
12 Beautiful single kinds, Ai for cuttings, 4 s. 
DAHLIAS. 
12 Best Cactus kinds, 3s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Show and Fancy, 3s. 6d.; 6, 2s. 
12 Best Pompon, 3s. 6d.; 6. 2s. 
12 Best Singles, 3s. 6d.; 6, 2s. 
FUCHSIAS. 
12 Finest double kinds, including Rose and White 
Phenomenal and Madame Carnot the giant 
white, 4 s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single kinds, including Royal Purple 
and Princess May, the prettiest Fuchsia 
raised, 4 s. 6d. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
GLOXINIAS. 
6 Finest named kinds, 5s. ; 3, 3s. 
6 Finest spotted, 3s. ; 6 Finest Selfs, 3s. 
HELIOTROPIUM. 
6 Best named kinds, 2s. 6d. ; 3, is 6d. 
PELARGONIUMS. 
12 Show and Decorative kinds, grand stuff in 5 
inch pots, 12s. (these will make a big display.) 
12 Grandest new Single Zonals for 1897, including 
Mrs. W. Winn, the nearest Blue, 20s. ; 6, 
10s. 6d. 
12 Finest new Single Zonals, 1896, 10s.; 6, 5s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1895, 6s. • 6, 3s. 6d. 
12 Finest Single Zonals, 1894, 4 s.; 6. 2s. 6d. 
6 Finest Single Zonals, Souv. de Mirande Type, 
including Mdme. J. Chretien, 3s. 
12 Finest Double Zonals selected from 1897, 1896, 
and 1895, to include Apple Blossom, Golden 
Gate, and Double H. Jacoby, 7s. 6d.; 6, 4 s. 
12 Very fine double Zonals, 4 s. ; 6, 2s. 6d. 
6 Grand New Double Ivies including Achieve¬ 
ment, cross between a Zonal and Ivy, and 
Mrs. C. Bick, magenta distinctly shaded blue, 
8s. 
12 Grand kinds, 4 s.; 6, 2S. 6d. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS. 
12 Finest named kinds including Mrs. D. B. 
Crane, the Electric Blue, 6s.; 6, 3s. 6d. 
All Orders are Post or Package Free for Cash 
with 6rder. 
H. J. JONES, 
RYECROFT NURSERY, LEWISHAM. 
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/'~\RCHIDS of the highest quality, every 
V _/ plant guaranteed true to name, from 2/6 each. Please 
send for free list.—P. McARTHUR, The London Nurseries, 
4, Maida Vale, London W. 
PLANT NOW! PLANT NOW! 
BARRS 
HARDY 
PERENNIALS. 
BARRS’ New Large Flowering 
Phloxes. 
A great advancement has been made during the last 
few years in this beautiful and useful family of hardy 
plants, the results being larger and bolder trusses, 
with individual flowers twice and thrice the size of 
those of the older kinds. New and striking colours 
of great beauty have also been added, The varieties 
offered below include the finest of the new intro¬ 
ductions and only the very best of the older kinds. 
During August and September these beautiful Phloxes 
are amongst the most decorative of garden plants. 
BARR & SONS’ SELECTIONS. 
25 in 25 Beautiful named Yars., 10/6, 15/-, & 21/-. 
12 in 12 „ „ „ 6/-. 9/-, & 12/ - 
6 in 6 „ „ „ 3/-, 5/6, & 6/-. 
Choice mixed colours of Hardy Late Phloxes, in 
great variety of colour, for massing, etc., per doz. 
4/6; per 100, 30/-. 
Barr’s Delphiniums, finest large-flowering 
varieties, 12 fine named sorts, 7/6 and 10/6 ; 6 fine 
named sorts, 3/6 and 5/6; fine hybrids, mixed, per 
doz., 5/6. 
Send for Barr’s Descriptive Lists of the most 
beautiful PHLOXES, DELPHINIUMS, PENTSTE- 
MONS, and MICHAELMAS DAISIES, for present 
planting. Free on application. 
Barr’s “ Rock-Garden ” Collections of 
Hardy Plants, 12 distinct varieties, 5/6; 25 
distinct varieties, 10/6. 
& SONS, 
12, King Street, COYENT GARDEN, LONDON. 
Nurseries: LONG DITTON, SURREY. 
" Gardening Is the pnrest oi human pleasnres, and the greates 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
ifUttM, 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , MAY 1st, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, May 3rd.—Sale of hardy perennials and florists’ 
flowers by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, May 4th—Sale of established Orchids, by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday. May 5th.—Sale of florists' flowers, by Messrs. 
Protheroe & MoTris. 
Thursday. May 6tb.—Meeting oi the Linnean Society. 
Friday, May 7th—Sale of Orchids, by Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris. 
f ARDENERS AND THEIR WAGES. —A Writer 
in last month’s Cornhill discourses 
fluently on the expense of keeping up the 
gardening establishment attached to coun¬ 
try houses. If we are to take the figures 
there supplied as absolute facts, we must 
acknowledge that we have long been 
labouring under a delusion as to the 
remuneration which gardeners get for their 
services. The unmarried men, that is, the 
journeymen receive on an average 25s. a 
week, while the more experienced get 30s. 
These figures might be reduced to 15s. for 
the former and 22s. for the latter, and it 
would be more nearly a correct average. 
Wages in country districts are in most cases 
much lower than in the suburbs of cities 
and towns. The gardeners and labourers 
in the service of the London County Council 
are much better paid than journeymen in 
private establishments, notwithstanding the 
fact that many of the latter are sufficiently 
experienced to be perfectly capable of taking 
entire charge of a garden and everything 
connected with it. The writer in question, 
in summing up the garden expenses of a 
country house, says that it would not be 
difficult to name 200 of them which keep a 
staff of twenty-five to forty, but for a staff 
of fifteen—ten at 25s., four at 30s., and a 
head gardener at ^100, the annual mini¬ 
mum cost would be ^1,062, independently 
of seeds, plants and coal. It would be a 
fairly large establishment that would keep 
a staff of fifteen : but their cost would be 
greatly reduced by taking eight journeymen 
at 15s. per week, two foremen at 22s., two 
women at 12s., and three boys at 10s., and 
the head gardener at £qo a year. 
The kitchen garden at Welbeck covers 
an area of thirty-two acres, but it must not 
be supposed that the cost is rapidly run up 
by the size of the kitchen garden. The 
same area of glass would require an 
infinitely larger staff to take proper care of 
it. The present generation of gardeners all 
have a desire for conservatories, and 
“working under glass,” it is said. Well, 
if the owners desire glass they must also 
have the men to grow the plants under the 
conditions which such houses necessitate. 
Surely it must not be imagined that the 
kitchen and flower garden are neglected 
where indoor gardening is pursued. There 
are still plenty of good men, of long experi¬ 
ence to be got for out-door work, ay, men 
who are heart and soul in those phases of 
gardening. What we would more readily 
find fault with, is that work in large gardens 
is departmental, and young men beginning 
their career in such places, very often do 
not get sufficient experience in the several 
branches to enable them to be good all¬ 
round gardeners when they come to take 
charge of head places. This is not the 
fault of the young men; and by a little 
judicious forethought and consideration on 
the part of their masters, this defect might 
easily be remedied. 
Large gardens are looked upon as 
universities of floriculture, endowed and 
maintained by private generosity. All the 
same we suppose these benefactors of the 
profession and the community at large, 
derive their own share of the pleasure to be 
had from a garden. The larger and smaller 
gardens in the country districts thus serve 
as seminaries where the thousands of 
skilled gardeners are trained, who take 
charge of thesurburban gardens of London, 
Birmingham and the North. A contempo¬ 
rary greatly doubts the skilled character of 
the London suburban gardener. His 
experience may be exceptionally unfortun¬ 
ate ; but we are afraid that he has only 
picked up “wildings” or at least unculti¬ 
vated and unimproved varieties. It is 
pretty safe to say that none of those suburb¬ 
an gardeners get the minimum wage of 
£100 ; probably 25s. a week would be 
nearer the mark. There can be little doubt 
that many of them get less ; but we do not 
look upon such men as the proper kidney. 
There are many gardeners of talent, and 
who show it when circumstances are 
propitious, that get very indifferent remune¬ 
ration for their skilled services, even in the 
suburbs of London ; and if a number of 
half groom, half butler, half gardener, and 
others of that kidney are to be found in the 
suburbs, they have no right to be taken 
as the standard nor to be placed in the same 
category as the genuine and experienced 
gardener. 
ferHE Cold Storage of Fruit. — The 
xfr Technical Education Committee of 
the Kent County Council has been carrying 
