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others,  attaching  the  former  labels.  This  fraudulent  tabling 
is  commonly  done  to  new  houses  that  are  erected  on  the  sites 
of  demolished  residences  of  famous  men.  Tablets  to  Hogarth 
in  Leicester  Square,  Turner  in  Queen  Anne  Street,  Marylebone, 
and  to  Byron  in  Holies  Street — all  in  London- — may  be  cited. — 
D.  S.  Fish. 
Gardeners’  Education, 
This  subject,  now  under  discus.sion  in  your  pages,  is  vei’y 
interesting  I  am  sure  to  thousands  cf  gardeners,  but  I  am 
afraid  the  educational  point  of  the  matter  is  out  of 
the  question.  What  young  man  getting  the  handsome  salary 
of  sixteen  or  seventeen  shillings  a  week  can  find  funds  to  buy 
the  books  recommended  by  Mr.  Divers  .P  The  majority  of 
books  connected  with  gardening  are  expensive.  And  if  a  young 
gardener  gets  all  the  books  Mr.  Divers  names,  and  spends  much 
time  over  them,  what  gardener  is  going  to  engage  him  if  all 
his  learning  is  got  mainly  by  theory?  My  little  experience  is 
this,  that  the  man  who  does  the  biggest  day’s  physical  work  is 
the  man  who  is  wanted.  It  also  seems  to  me  that  so  soon  as  a 
gardener  attains  that  desired  head  place,  his  whole  desire  is 
how  many  days  a  week  he  can' get  away  from  the  place.  I  don’t 
means  to^  say  all  are  the  same,  but  in  my  case,  after  fifteen  years 
with  .several,  I  found  them  mostly  the  same.  And  as  “A 
Domestic  Gardener  ”  .says,  the  garden  is  left  in  charge  of  the 
foreman. — Another  Hneortunate. 
Bothies  as  Moral  Nuisances. 
The  following  letter  has  unavoidably  been  held  over  for  two 
weeks  :  — “  W^hat  a  lot  of  questions  Mr.  ‘  C.  H.  S.’  (page  454)  wants 
answered !  I  should  have  thought,  as  he  knows  exactly  why 
bothies  are  such  objectionable  places,  he  would  have  been  quite 
competent  to  answer  just  one  little  question  without  requiring 
such  a  lot  of  data  on  the  subject  before  the  one,  and  only  one, 
question  can  be  adequately  answered.  If  I  take  the  questions 
as  they  are  set  forth,  and  carefully  study  each  one,  I  may, 
perhaps,  be  able  to  answer  one  or  two ;  but  what  an  examina¬ 
tion  1  (1)  If  I  had  a  son,  and  it  was  his  ambition  to  become 
a  pi'ofessional  gardener,  I  should  expect  him  to  live  in  the  bothy 
if  such  was  provided ;  but  the  rudiments  of  his  future  character 
would  have  been  thoi’oughly  taught  to  him  beforehand.  The 
bothy  life  would  undoubtedly  prove  the  amount  of  grit  he 
possessed.  (2)  Is  not  a  sensible  question.  John  Bull  can,  and 
does,  make  his  home  the  whole  world  over,  but  he  has  only 
one  home,  and  that  is  the  parental  home.  (3)  I  have  had  the 
misfortune  to  be  laid  low  in  a  bothy,  but  not  on  an  inhospitable 
bed.  Everything  that  possibly  could  be  done  for  my  comfort 
and  welfare  was  reasonably  considered.  Had*  I  been  in  a 
hospital  I  could  not  have  been  better  cared  for.  (4)  Is  practi¬ 
cally  the  question  (2)  differently  worded.  When  a  fellow  goes 
out  into  the  world  he  cannot  take  his  home  with  him,  so  he 
simply  takes  what  conies  and  makes  the  best  of  it.  A  good 
many  bothies  are  what  those  inhabiting  them  make  them 
perhaps.  (5)  Most,  head  gardeners  have  tasted  of  bothy  life, 
and  therefore  know  by  experience  the  advantages  and  disad¬ 
vantages  of  the  system.  I  venture  to  write  that  few  self-re¬ 
specting  men  would  uphold  a  system,  or  anything  else,  if  it  is 
so  degrading  and  demoralising.  (6)  Please,  Mr.  ‘C.  H.  S.,’ 
gardening  is  a  profession,  and  not  a  trade.  The  young  gardener 
in  his  bothy  is  better  off,  as  my  experience  goes,  than  the 
shop  assistant,  with  his  room  or  lodging  to  make  up  the  defi¬ 
ciency  in  his  wages.  (7)  and  (9)  are  questions  which  I  consider 
to  be  insulting  to  the  profession.  I  shall  soon  expect  to  see  in 
the  advertisement  columns;  ‘Wanted,  only  men  previously 
experienced  as  patients  in  a  lunatic  asylum,’  seeing  that 
sensible,  intelligent  young  men  can  find  employment,  and  God¬ 
fearing,  sympathetic  employers,  elsewhere.  Everybody  knows 
that  ‘  gardening  ’  is  not  ‘  paid  for,’  so  question  8  can  stand  out. 
“In  connection  with  question  6,  I  would  a.sk  ‘C.  H.  S.’  what 
substitute  he  can  offer  for  bothies,  and  does  he  consider  lodgings 
outside  the  place  practicable  for  gardeners,  whose  constant  duty 
it  is  to  be  always  at  hand.  I  wonder  if  the  author  of  those 
nine  questions  has  ever  been  in  a  bothy?  He  surely  has  not 
lived  in  one.  I  heard  them  (the  questions)  pronounced  as 
absurd  by  a  bothy  resident  who  had  spent  over  a  decade  in  a 
‘moral  nuisance.’  By  his  quotation,  I  fancy  ‘  C.  H.  S.’  is  mix¬ 
ing  bothies  nn<I  bothies,  for  there  are  good  and  bad,  though 
he  appears  to  think  them  all  bad.  The  bothy  is,  I  believe,  of 
Scotch  origin,  and  was  a  place  used  by  gillies,  shepherds,  and 
farm  servants ;  both  sexes  being  housed  under  the  same  roof 
doubtless  was  the  cause  for  Cobbett’s  statement.  It  is  im¬ 
possible  to  think  that  he  had  the  gardener’s  bothy  in  mind  when 
he  compared  the  Scotch  bothy  system  to  the  arson  crimes  com¬ 
mitted  in  Kent.-^H.  R.,  Kent,  May  24.” 
Peaches  on  Plum  Stocks. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  New  York  State  Fruit  Growers’ 
As.sociation  it  was  statenl  that  the  practice  of  budding  Peaches  on 
Plum  stocks  has  had  a  thorough  trial  for  a  series  of  years — with 
disastrous  effects  on  the  Peaches  thus  placed  on  uncongenial  feet. 
The  trees  seem  to  grow  vigorously  for  a  few  years,  then  stand  still 
for  a  while,  and  finally  die.  On  the  other  hand.  Plums  have  done 
very  well  on  Peach  stocks. 
Irish  Gardeners. 
The  Irish  Gardeners’  As,sociation  held  their  usual  meeting 
recently  in  D’Olier  Street.  Although  the  chief  business  was 
purely  of  a  society  character,  the  secretary  announced  a  reply 
had  been  received  from  V.  Inglis,  Esq.,  acknowledging  the  vote 
of  condolence  passed  by  them  to  Lady  Inglis  on  the  death  of  her 
husband.  The  meeting  was  adjourned  after  several  members 
were  proposed  for  membership. — A.  O’Neill. 
Temple  House  Gardens,  Great  Marlow. 
I  herewith  enclose  register  of  rainfall  for  May,  1902.  Rain 
fell  on  twenty-four  days  during  the  month,  and  there  was 
thunder  on  the  3rd  and  7th.  There  were  six  hailstorms^ — viz., 
on  the  3rd,  5th,  7th,  9th,  14th,  and  18th.  The  highest  maximum 
temperature  was  70deg  on  the  24th,  and  the  lowest  minimum 
29deg,  on  the  13th.  The  highest  maximum  for  May,  1901,  was 
84deg,  on  the  29th,  and  the  lowest  minimum  31deg,  on  the  4th. 
The  rainfall  for  May,  1901,  was  0.60.— George  Groves. 
Ghent  International  Horticultural  Kxhibition. 
The  schedule  for  the  fifteenth  great  show  of  the  Royal  Agri¬ 
cultural  and  Botanical  Society  of  Ghent,  to  be  held  from  April  18 
to  26,  1903,  at  Ghent,  Belgium,  has  reached  us.  Altogether 
there  are  670  classes,  embracing  groups  of  plants.  Orchids,  Palms, 
Cycads,  Conifers,  succulents,  &c.,  and  groups  also  of  fruits. 
Floral  decorations  have  a  section  all  to  themselves,  and  the  con¬ 
cluding  part  of  the  schedule  represents  horticultural  arts  and 
industries,  as  in  plan  drawing  garden  statuarjq  vases,  and  other 
forms  of  embellishment.  The  secretary  is  Mr.  M.  E.  Fierens. 
More  Victorian  Apples. 
Mr.  J.  M.  Sinclair,  Superintendent  of  Exports  for  the 
Victorian  Government  and  Representative  of  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture,  Victoria,  153,  Leadenhall  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  informs  us  that  the  Victorian  Deiiartment  of 
Agriculture  has  forwarded,  per  Oroya,  100  cases  of  selected 
Victorian  Apples,  which  are  being  exhibited  at  the  Floral  Hall, 
Covent  Garden  to-day  (Thursday)  and  to-morrow  (Friday),  and 
sold  on  the  latter  day.  The  consignment  consists  of  the  following 
varieties : —Rowe  Beauty,  S.  Nonpareil,  Stone  Pippin,  Yates, 
Rymer,  French  Crab.  Hoover.  Statesman,  and  Jonathan.  They 
are  of  a  finer  class  than  any  previous  consignment  this  season, 
having  been  selected  with  a  vieiv  of  showing  the  excellent  qiiality 
of  fruit  produced  in  Victoria. 
New  York  Botanic  Garden. 
The  annual  report  of  the  Garden  for  the  year  1901  has  been 
issued.  Director-in-Chief  Dr.  N.  L.  Britton  states  that  in  the 
herbaceous  grounds  the  total  number  of  species  of  plants  grown 
is  about  3,020  ;  the  fruticetum  contains  512  species,  the  salicetum 
43.  In  the  arboretum  the  total  number  of  kinds  of  hardy  trees, 
including  those  native  to  the  tract,  is  over  290.  The  viticetum 
comprises  62  species  of  Vines  and  trailers;  and  in  the  nurseries 
the  number  of  species  represented  is  about  1,000.  In  the  public 
conservatories  the  number  of  species  has  been  increased  to  3.400. 
The  director-in-chief  adds:  “The  operation  of  the  new  houses 
will  now  necessitate  and  permit  an  entire  rearrangement  of  these 
collections;  a  detailed  plan  for  this  lias  been  elaborated,  taking 
into  account  the  practically  doubled  variety  of  tempi'raturt'  and 
humiditv  conditions  which  the  range  will  afford,  and  which  will 
enable  better  cultural  results  to  be  reached  than  has  hitherto 
been  possible  for  lack  of  such  varied  conditions.”  The  total 
number  of  species,  both  wild  and  cultivated,  in  the  (warden  is 
9273. — (“  F'lorists’  Fxchange.”) 
