October  1  i>.  i89t>. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
U1 
CO  VENT  GARDEN  MARKET. — October  15th. 
AVERAGE  WHOLESALE  PRICES.— FRUIT. 
Figs,  green,  per  doz. 
„  French,  per  bas 
Grapes',  black  . 
Lemons,  cate  . 
Melons  . 
,,  Rock  . 
e.  d. 
s.  d. 
8.  d. 
8.  O 
sieve 
3  0  to  5  0 
Nectarines,  per  doz. 
3  0  to  6  0 
70  0 
0  0 
Peacties,  per  doz . 
3  0 
6  0 
••• 
1  0 
3  0 
Pears,  Californian,  case... 
6  0 
9  0 
ket... 
1  6 
3  0 
Pines,  St.  Michael’s,  each 
1  0 
6  0 
•  ••• 
0  6 
3  0 
Plums,  Prune,  per  sieve... 
6  6 
0  0 
•  ... 
14  0 
20  0 
,,  Californian,  case... 
4  0 
8  0 
.each 
0  6 
1  6 
Walnuts,  fresh,  bushel  ... 
20  0 
0  0 
1  9 
2  6 
AVERAGE  WHOLESALE  PRICES.— VEGETABLES. 
s.  d. 
s.d.  s. 
.  d. 
s.  d. 
Artichokes,  green,  doz.  ... 
2  0  to  3  0  Lettuce,  doz . 
1  3  to  2  0 
Aubergine,  per  doz . 
1  6 
2  0  Munhrooms,  lb . 
0  21 
0  6 
Beans,  Scarlet,  sieve 
5  0 
6  0  Mustard  and  Cress,  punnet 
0  2 
o  o 
Beet,  Red,  doz . 
0  6 
0  0  Onions,  bag,  about  1  cwt. 
4  0 
4  6 
Cabbages,  per  tally . 
7  0 
0  0  Parsley,  doz.  bunches  ... 
2  0 
4  0 
Carrots,  per  doz . 
2  0 
3  0  Potatoes,  cwt . 
2  0 
5  t 
Cauliflowers,  doz . 
2  0 
3  0  Shallots,  lb . 
0  3 
0  0 
Celery,  per  bundle . 
1  0 
1  3  Spinach,  per  bnshel . 
2  0 
4  o 
Cucumbers,  doz . 
2  0 
4  0  Tomatoes,  per  doz.  lbs.  ... 
2  0 
5  0 
Endive,  doz . 
1  6 
2  0  Turnips,  bunch . 
0  3 
0  4 
Herbs,  bunch  . 
0  2 
0  0  Vegetable  Marrows,  doz. 
1  0 
1  6 
Leeks,  bunch  . 
0  3 
0  0 
Trade  improving. 
AVERAGE  WHOLESALE  PRICES.— CUT  FLOWERS. 
s.  d.  s.  d. 
Arums  .  6  0  to  8  0 
Asparagus,  Fern,  bunch...  2  0  2  6 
Carnations,  12  blooms  ...  2  6  3  6 
Cattleyas,  per  doz . 12  0  18  0 
Chrj  santliemums,  white 
doz.  blooms  6  0  9  0 
,,  yellow  doz.  blooms  5  0  8  0 
,,  bunches  var.  ...  0  6  16 
Eucharis,  doz .  6  0  8  0 
Gardenias,  doz .  4  0  6  0 
Geranium,  scarlet,  doz. 
bnchs .  6  0  9  0 
Lily  of  the  Valley,  12 
sprays  . 15  0  18  0 
PLANTS 
s.  d.  s.  d. 
Arbor  Vitae,  var.,  doz.  ...  6  0to36  0 
Aspidistra,  doz .  18  0  36  0 
Aspidistra,  specimen  ...  15  0  20  0 
Chrysanthemums,  per  doz.  6  0  8  0 
Crotons,  doz . 18  0  F0  0 
Dracaena,  var.,  doz .  12  0  30  0 
Dracaena  viridis,  doz.  ...  9  0  18  0 
Erica  various,  doz .  30  0  60  0 
Euonymus,  var.,  doz.  ...  6  0  18  0 
Evergreens,  var.,  doz.  ...  4  0  18  0 
Ferns,  var.,  dnz .  4  0  18  0 
„  small,  100  4  0  8  0 
8.  d. 
8.  C 
Lilium  Harrisi,  12  blooms 
5  0  to  5  6 
,,  lancifolium  album  ... 
3  6 
4  6 
,,  ,,  rubrum... 
,,  longiflorum,  12  blooms 
Maidenhair  Fern,  doz. 
bnchs . 
3  6 
4  6 
6  0 
8  0 
6  0 
8  0 
Marguerites,  doz.  bnchs. 
3  0 
4  0 
Mignonette,  doz.  bunches 
4  0 
6  (J 
Odontoglossums  . 
5  0 
7  6 
Pelargoniums,  doz.  bnchs 
8  0 
12  0 
Roses  (indoor),  doz . 
6  0 
8  0 
,,  Red,  doz . 
4  0 
6  ( 
„  Tea,  white,  doz.  ... 
2  6 
5  0 
,,  Yellow,  doz.  (Perles) 
4  6 
6  6 
Smilax,  bunch . 
3  0 
4  l 
:n  pots. 
s.  d. 
s.  d. 
Ficus  elastica,  each . 
1  6  to  7  6 
Foliage  plants,  var.,  each 
1  0 
5  6 
Lilium  Harrisi,  doz.  ...  18  0  24  0 
Liliutn  lancifolium  album  30  0  40  0 
rubrum  30  0  40  0 
Lycopodiums,  doz . 
3 
0 
6 
0 
Marguerite  Daisy,  doz.  ... 
8 
0 
10 
0 
Myrtles,  doz . 
6 
0 
9 
0 
Palms,  in  var.,  each 
1 
0 
15 
0 
,,  specimens  . 
21 
0 
63 
0 
Pelargoniums,  scarlet,  doz. 
6 
0 
8 
(i 
Pli>  satis,  per  pot  . 
2 
0 
4 
0 
OUR  CHAMBERS  OF  AGRICULTURE 
Are  widely  spread  all  over  the  country,  and  are,  as  it  were,  the 
active  living  expression  of  the  farmer’s  wants  and  desires.  They 
are  valuable  institutions,  in  that  they  promote  a  spirit  of  good 
fellowship — the  council  chamber  is  common  ground  for  men  ot 
different  views  and  opinions;  a  place  where  free  interchange  of 
ideas  is  encouraged,  anl  where  many  a  useful  and  happy  thought 
has  become  action. 
We  have  heard  a  gcod  deal  of  late  about  co-operatioD,  and  that 
unity  which  gives  strength,  or  really  is  of  itself  strength,  and  we 
thoroughly  believe  that  the  action,  the  united  action  of  the  different 
chambers,  must  make  some  impression  ou  those  who  hold  the  helm 
and  guide  the  good  ship  “Agriculture.”  We  know,  alas  !  how  slow 
Englishmen  are  to  move;  what  a  time  it  takes  to  get  even  a  small 
measure  passed  through  our  Houses ;  and  it  is  only  by  constantly 
urging,  and  persistent  reiteration,  that  some  restriction  is  removed  and 
some  useful  law  put  in  force. 
We  do  not  think  as  a  class  we  are  exacting,  but  we  do  think 
we  might  just  claim  a  little  more  notice  from  our  legislators,  espe¬ 
cially  from  those  who  are  termed  “  heriditary,”  because,  taken  as  a 
whole,  they  form  the  great  landlord  class,  and  it  is  to  their  benefit 
if  wise  measures  are  passed  in  favour  of  agriculturists.  They  are 
suffering  as  much  from  this  continued  depression  as  we,  and  it  is 
their  bounden  duty  to  remove,  to  the  best  of  their  ability,  all 
stumblingblocks  from  the  way  of  hard-working,  deserving  farmers. 
Shall  we  enumerate  a  few  of  the  items  that  have  been  much 
under  discussion  at  the  meetings  of  the  various  chambers  during  the 
iast  few  months  ? 
We  want  legislature  to  go  more  fully  in'o  the  tenant  right 
question.  We  are  not  all  fixtures  on  our  farms,  and  a  change  is 
sometimes  most  advisable  and  advantageous.  It — the  change — would 
oftener  be  made  if  we  felt  we  should  not  be  losers  thereby^.  We 
have  done  our  best  for  the  land  we  hold;  we  have  put  good  money 
into  it  and  employed  plenty  of  excellent  labour;  we  straightened 
fences,  cleaned  watercourses,  kept  buildings  in  good  and  efficient 
repair,  often  at  great  self-sacrifice ;  we  have  cropped  judiciously  and 
stocked  well,  and  yet  when  we  go  we  get  no  thanks  and  little  or  no 
recompense,  and  in  all  probability  the  next  man  who  takes  the  farm 
gets  it  at  a  less  rent  and  has  the  benefit  of  the  unearned  increment 
we  leave  behind  us.  We  want  no  injustice  done  to  the  landlord,  but 
we  want  justice  for  ourselves,  and  a  freer  hand  in  cropping  and  realising 
our  crops.  It  is  not  to  our  advantage  to  rob  the  land,  yet  we  are 
often  treated  as  if  we  did  not  practise  the  very  rudiments  of  honour  ; 
as  though  all  the  honour  was  on  the  side  of  the  landlord,  and  none  on 
that  of  the  farmer. 
Then,  again,  take  the  Food  Adulteration  question.  That  affects 
us  first,  and  quite  as  much  as  it  afftcts  the  consumer.  We  ought  to 
be  protected  against  fraudulent  dealers.  If  we  sell  milk  which  is  not 
up  to  standard  (whether  there  be  the  addition  of  water  or  not),  we 
are  heavily  dropped  on  to  and  fined;  but  the  man  who  sells  us 
impure  cake,  manures  guileless  cf  tillage  properties,  and  seeds  that, 
if  not  half  rubbish,  have  a  heavy  percentage  of  weed — well,  they 
get  off  generally  scot  free.  How  can  we,  with  our  butter  and 
cheese,  both  pure  products  of  the  dairy,  stand  against  the  coloured 
margarine  and  the  “  lardy  ”  cheeses  ? 
We  ask  for  the  examination  by  experts  of  the  “dairy  produce” 
landed  on  our  shoies  by  the  foreigner,  and  we  should  like  to  see 
imported  meat  marked  as  such.  Our  meat  growers  have  enough 
difficulties  to  contend  against  without  any  addition  to  their  burdens, 
and  it  is  not  a  lair  thing  to  either  the  producer  or  consumer  that 
foreign  meat  should  be  sold  as  English,  and  at  English  prices.  As 
for  the  conversion  of  American  bacon  in  good  English  brands,  we 
are  constantly  seeing  isolated  cases  of  imposture  exposed.  How 
many,  we  wonder,  are  never  suspected  ? 
There  is  a  burning  question  much  agitating  the  public  mind 
just  now,  and  that  is  the  Tuberculosis  question.  It  involves  grave 
issues — the  issues  of  life  aud  death  ;  but  we  believe  ourselves  that, 
like  many  popular  crazes,  it  is  getting  a  little  bit  overdone.  The 
public  have  a  remedy  in  their  own  hands.  Those  who  are  most 
alarmed.  It  is  an  easy  thing  to  boil  milk.  All  germs  are  killed 
then,  and  we  really  do  not  believe  there  is  such  a  tremendous  - 
amount  of  raw  milk  consumed.  It  is  given  in  large  measure  to 
children,  but  as  a  rule  in  the  form  of  boiled  bread  and  milk,  boiled 
porridge,  or  baked  or  boiled  puddings.  “Grown  ujs”  rarely  take 
cold  milk ;  they  usually  have  had  such  a  surfeit  as  children  that 
they  want  no  more. 
Still,  though  we  think  the  danger  of  transmitted  tuberculosis  is 
rather  exaggerated,  we  should  welcome  some  measute  that  would 
tend  to  allay  the  fear  of  the  public,  and  that  would  do  away  with 
actual  loss  to  the  farmer.  It  seems  rather  unfair  that  he  should 
stand  all  the  brunt  of  the  blame  and  all  the  loss  too.  He  does  not 
willingly  keep  diseased  stock,  and  jin  case  of  compulsory  slaughter 
he  deserves  full  compensation.  We  do  not  often  hear  of  cases  of 
consumption  among  farm  servants,  and  the  rule  is  that  they  have 
milk  twice  a  day,  aud  we  are  sure  they  do  not  follow  the  great - 
Dr.s’  dictum  of  skeping  with  open  windows.  We  fancy  this  terrible 
