Sep '.ember 5, 1903 
Fhe Gardening World 
GENERAL NOTICES. 
We would earnestly urge secretaries of societies to notify us as far in advance as possible as to dates of meetings, shows, etc. We desire to do all in our power to have these 
equately represented in the columns of The Gardening World. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Influence of Gardening on 
Bothy Life. 
It does not always happen that, men in high 
places have a good word to say with respect 
to gardeners or other domestic servant®, par¬ 
ticularly those in, their own employ. There 
are some remarkable exceptions, however, we 
are pleased to say, and have occasionally 
mentioned the fact in past numbers of The 
Gardening World. A notable instance we 
may now mention in the case of Sheriff Lee, 
of Forfar, when opening the 1 show of the town 
on the 21st inist. He said that poverty 
of imagination failed to suggest anything 
original to him on such an occasion.. We 
hope, however, that what he did manage to 
say was not altogether original or an, alto¬ 
gether out-of-the-way subject', and certainly, 
with regard to gardeners and gardening, we 
hope this is not the only occasion, on which 
such an idea, has occurred to those who have 
been deputed to formally open their local 
flower shows. 
He said that it is one of the chief recom¬ 
mendations of gardening as a recreation that 
it was not selfish in its aims and results. 
We may say in support of this, observation, 
that botanical and horticultural men. of all 
countries have been able to fraternise with 
one another either by letter or when brought 
in contact, at the same time that the poli¬ 
ticians of their respective countries have 
been full of wordy warfare, even to use no 
stronger language. Plants and flowers have 
always been the means of bringing people of 
the same mind and pursuits together in all 
past ages of our country, so far as history 
records the same. This, of course, must be 
largely looked upon ais the 1 fraternising of 
individuals of different nationalities, but at 
the same time we can imagine that the moie 
these individualsi are multiplied in different 
nationalities the more likely are they to be 
brought together in friendly dealings than 
are those who have no such common tie. 
We have long noted also the desire on the 
part of various,' nations or peoples to culti¬ 
vate the wild or even the garden flowers of 
their neighbours, or it may be their political 
opponents. The wars between: European 
nations and this country or among them¬ 
selves have never prevented the progress in 
gardening by the interchange of flowers, 
except, what they actually destroyed during 
such wars or by the impoverishment of the 
nations at conflict. Many of our wild 
flowers, as well asi those on the Continent, 
are cherished in America,, and every 
American plant of any beauty or use is 
cherished here more than if they were our 
own,. On the other hand, again,, -we often 
see that our relatives who have adopted some 
other country as their home- have taken some 
of the old flowers with them. 
On several occasions! we have noted how 
pleased Americans have been on discussing 
the question that Heather had becomei natu¬ 
ralised in some part of America,. Many 
attempts had been made to grow and even to 
naturalise the modest Daisy. People from 
the old country have even carried their affec¬ 
tions further, and, taken Thistles with them, 
much to the regret, of people in that country 
afterwards!, particularly those people whose 
land became overrun with the Thistles as a 
weed. Even, some of the Mexican species, of 
Argemone have! been looked upon as Scotch 
Thistles in South Africa, where they have 
obtained a Ann footing. More recently we 
have heard of a lady who took Sweet Briers 
to her adopted country, and finding the new 
conditions congenial to. their welfare, they 
overran the neighbourhood like a bad weed. 
To return to the Sheriff’s speech, we are 
pleased to- note that he considered every 
true gardener honestly and conscientiously 
worked for others a,si well a-s for himself. It, 
seems that he made no mention of the small 
encouragements in the form of emoluments 
that induced such faithful services in thei 
gardener, but he indicated the fact that the 
local flower shows were the means of bring- 
, _ O 
ing them together in friendly rivalry, be¬ 
cause! it afforded them an innocent oppor¬ 
tunity of receiving public recognition for 
their skill. Flower shows, as a matter of 
fact, do bring gardeners together in friendly 
rivalry, but they bring together many who 
cannot be regarded as rivals to' one another. 
They are always the means of bringing 
