June  25,  1903. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  ASD  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
563 
2,  Crepis  virens.  L.;  3.  Hvpochciris  raclicata.  L.  Ciraminere ;  1. 
Festuca  cvir.a,  L..  va”.  teimifolia  ;  2.  i’estuca  rubra,  L.,  var;  3,  an 
anomalovs  fcrra  of  Loliuiu  perenne.  L.  4.  CyuosuruH  cristatus.  L. 
Covent  Garden  Market.— June  24tli. 
Average  Wholesale  Prices.— Fruit. 
s.  d.  s.  d  1 
A.pp]es, Tasmanian, case  12  0tol4  0 
Apirieots,  per  box  ...  1  0  13 
Bananas . 10  0  15  0 
Cherries,  box .  13  3  0 
,,  ^-sieves .  8  0  10  0 
Grapes,  Jlamburgh  ...  1  6  2  0 
s.  d.  s.  d 
Lemons,  Messina,  case  10  0tol5  0 
Oranges,  case  .  10  0  20  0 
Pines,  St.  Michael’s  3  6  5  0 
Strawberries,  South - 
ampjton,  per  bskt.  2  6  3  0 
Average  Wholesale  Prices.— Vegetables. 
Artichokes,  green,  doz. 
,,  Jerusalem,  sieve 
Batavia,  doz . 
Beet,  red,  doz . 
Cabbages,  Spring,  tally 
Carrots,  bunch  . 
,,  new',  bneh.  ... 
Cauliflowers,  doz. 
Corn  Salad,  strike 
Cos  Lettuce,  doz . 
Cucumbers  doz . 
Endive,  doz . 
Herbs,  bunch  . 
Horseradish,  bunch  ... 
!.  d.  s.  d  I 
2  0  to  0  0 
1  6  0  0  1 
0 
0  6 
2  0 
0  0 
1  0 
3  0 
0  0 
0  8 
5  0 
1  3 
0  0 
4  0 
0  0 
0  0 
1  6 
Leeks,  bunch  . 
Lettuce,  Cabbage,  doz. 
Mushrooms,  forced,  lb. 
Mustard  &  Cress,  doz. 
punnets . 
Onions,  bushel  . 
Parsley,  doz.  bnchs.  ... 
Potatoes,  cw't . 
,,  Jersey,  new',  cw't. 
Radishes,  doz . 
Spinach,  bush . 
Tomatoes,  English,  lb. 
Turnips,  bnch . 
,,  new',  bnch.  ... 
s.  d.  s.  d 
0  2to0  2-^ 
10  0  0 
10  0  0 
16  0  0 
3  0  0  0 
2  0  0  0 
6  0  8  0 
14  0  15  0 
0  9  10 
2  0  0  0 
0  6 
0  0 
0  5 
0  7 
0  2 
0  6 
Average  Wholesale  Prices.— Cut  flowers 
s.  d.  s.  d 
Arums,  doz .  2  0  to  3  0 
Asparagus,  Fern,  bnch.  10  2  0 
Carnations,  12  blooms  10  13 
Cattleyas,  doz . 10  0  12  0 
Croton  foliage,  bun.  ...  0  9  10 
Cycas  leaves,  each  ...  0  9  16 
Eucharis,  doz.  ...  2  0  3  0 
Gardenias,  doz .  2  0  2  6 
Geranium,  scarlet,  doz. 
bnchs .  4  0  5  0 
Gladiolus,  The  Bride,  • 
doz.  bun .  6  0  8  0 
Iris,  Sj:ianish,  doz.  bun.  6  0  8  0 
Ivy  leaves,  doz.  bun. ...  1  6  0  0 
Lilium  Harris!  .  2  0  0  0 
Lily  of  Valley,  12  bnchs  9  0  12  0 
Maidenhair  Fern,  doz. 
bnchs .  4  0  5  0 
s.  d.  s.  d 
Marguerites,  white. 
doz.  bnchs . 
3  0to4  0 
,,  yelloAv,  doz.  bnchs. 
1  6 
2  0 
Myrtle,  English,  bunch 
0  6 
0  0 
Odontoglossums . 
4  0 
5  0 
Orange  blossom,  bunch 
2  0 
0  0 
Pyrethruin,  double, 
doz.  bun . 
4  0 
5  0 
Roses,  Niphetos,  Avhite, 
doz . 
1  0 
1  6 
,,  pink,  doz . 
2  0 
4  0 
,,  yelloAv,doz.(Perles) 
1  6 
2  0 
,,  Liberty,  doz . 
2  0 
4  0 
,,  Generals . 
1  6 
2  0 
Smilax,  bunch  . 
4  0 
5  0 
Stephanotis,  doz. 
2  0 
2  6 
Violets,  doz.  bun. 
2  0 
2  0 
,,  Marie  Louise... 
2  0 
3  6 
Average  Wholesale  Prices.— Plants  In  Pots 
Most  of  the  undermentioned  plants  are  sold  in  48  and  32-sized  po  t 
s.  d.  s.  d  ' 
Aralias,  doz .  5  0tol2  0  Geraniums,  doz.  .. 
Araucaria,  doz . 12  0 
Aspidistra,  doz . 18  0 
Crotons,  doz . 18  0 
Cyperus  alternifolius 
doz .  4  0 
Dracaena,  var.,  doz.  ...  12  0 
,,  viridis,  doz. .  9  0 
Erica  Cavendish! . 18  0 
,,  candidissima  ...  18  0 
Ferns,  var.,  doz .  4  0 
,,  small,  100 . 10  0 
Ficus  elastica,  doz.  ...  9  0 
Foliage  plants,  var,  each  1  0 
Fuchsias,  doz .  6  0 
30  0  ,  ,,  Ivy,  doz.  ... 
36  0  Grevilleas,  48’s,  doz.  ... 
30  0  ,  Heliotrope  . 
Hydrangeas,  pink 
5  0  white  ... 
30  0  Lycopodiums,  doz.  ... 
18  0  Marguerite  Daisy,  doz. 
24  0  Myrtles,  doz . 
21  0  Palms,  in  var.,  doz.  ... 
18  0 ,  ,,  specimens 
16  0  '  Pandanus  Veitchi,  48’s, 
12  0 '  doz . 
5  0  Pelargoniums  . 
8  0  Shrubs,  in  pots  . 
s. 
d. 
s.  d 
4 
0to6  0 
6 
0 
8  0 
5 
0 
0  0 
6 
0 
8  0 
10 
0 
12  0 
10 
0 
12  0 
3 
0 
0  0 
6 
0 
9  0 
6 
0 
9  6 
15 
0 
30  0 
21 
0 
63  0 
24 
0 
30  0 
8 
0 
0  0 
4 
0 
6  0 
Several  Small  Items. 
In  a  Scottish  agricultural  paper  which  w'e  often  have  the 
pleasure  of  perusing,  we  find  attention  drawn  to  the 
difficulty  there  is  at  present  existing  with  regard  to  the  en¬ 
largement  and  equipment  of  what  may  be  justly  termed 
The  National  Dairy  School  at  Kilmai’nock.  It  appears  that 
the  sum  asked  for  amounts  to  £5,500,  and  this  does  not 
strike  us  as  being  anything  very  tremendous.  Of  this  sum  the 
County  Councils  and  the  County  Education  Commission 
have  contributed  £l,170  ;  the  Scottish  Educational  Depart¬ 
ment  £500,  with  a  promise  of  another  £500  when  £5,000  has 
been  raised.  The  Highlands  give  £.300,  and  many  noble¬ 
men  and  gentlemen  have  contributed  handsomely,  and  yet 
there  is  still  a  lack  of  £l,880.  Now,  much  as  we  admire  the 
generosity  of  those  private  donors  who  have  contributed 
to  the  fund,  we  rather  feel  that  they  are  doing  what  really 
ought  to  be  the  duty  of  the  Government,  It  is  a  national 
want,  and  it  should  be  a  national  business  to  see  that  w'ant 
supplied.  By  a  national  want  we  mean  this  ;  that  in  Scotland 
dairy  training  is  at  present  being  nnich  sought  after;  pupils 
are  turned  away  from  the  various  centres  for  lack  of  accom¬ 
modation,  and  when  we  read  that  fifty  pupils  are  being 
trained  where  there  is  only  accommodation  for  thirty,  it 
seems  a  pretty  positive  proof  that  the  harvest  is  indeed 
ready,  and  that  it  is  the  shortest  of  short-sighted  policies  to 
turn  away  even  one  aspirant  to  dairy  fame.  We  have  for 
years  been  talked  to  and  preached  at  because  it  was  con¬ 
sidered  by  our  chief  advisors  that  we  were  far  behind  any 
other  Eiu’opean  nation  in  dairy  science,  and  now'  when  Ave 
have  woke  up  to  the  fact,  and  are  ready  to  be  trained  in 
the  w'aj'  we  should  go,  there  is  a  lack  of  money  to  provide 
the  necessary  training. 
These  things  should  not  be.  Mr.  Jesse  Collings  in  a 
speech  at  Rouen,  during  the  British  Dairy  Farmers’  tour, 
stated  that  whereas  we  as  a  nation  spent  some  £40,000  on 
agricultural  education,  the  French  Government  spent  some 
niillions.  He  considered  that  the  English  farmers  miist 
unite  in  urging  on  the  Government  the  absolute  necessity 
for  more  help  for  agricultural  education,  and  for  all  institu¬ 
tions  which  have  to  do  Avith  agriculture.  It  is  by  constant 
dropping  that  the  stone  is  Avorn,  and  it  is  only  by  constant 
and  united  agitation  that  anything  Avill  be  done  for  us  as 
the  body  agricultural. 
Turning  again  to  the  dairy  tour.  A  friend  Avho  came  in 
the  other  night  to  tell  of  his  experience  had  been  very  much 
struck  by  one  point  in  the  feeding  of  French  calves.  The 
milk  on  Avhich  they  are  fed  is  solid  :  that  is,  has  been 
alloAved  to  stand  till  it  is  far  past  the  stage  of  SAveetness, 
and  yet  these  calves  take  and  apparently  thrive  thereon. 
No  English  calf,  to  his  knoAvledge,  Avould  stand  such  treat¬ 
ment  ;  scour  and  death  Avould  folloAv  rapidly  on  each  other’s 
heels.  We  are  sorry  to  find  there  is  evidence  that  the 
labourer’s  coav  is  not  so  much  to  the  fore  as  it  Avas.  A  cow’ 
and  a  bit  of  land  were  to  be  a  panacea  for  every  ill.  Noav  a 
good  cottage  Avith  a  coav  run  and  suitable  buildings  goes 
a-begging.  The  men,  or  perhaps  their  Avives,  Avill  have  none 
of  them.  And  again,  the  Higlnvay  Boards,  especially  in 
some  of  the  N.E.  counties,  used  to  augment  their  receipts 
from  the  money  paid  by  coAvkeepers  for  a  summer’s  run. 
That  source  of  revenue  has  much  fallen  off,  not  because 
there  is  other  or  better  supply  of  grass  for  the  coavs,  but 
simply  that  cottagers’  coavs  are  on  the  decrease.  We  are 
very  sorry  for  this,  as  a  lack  of  gt)od  milk  in  any  commu¬ 
nity  is  most  unfaA'ourable  for  the  proper  and  healthy 
nourishment  of  young  children.  A  good  and  liberal  milk 
diet  tends  to  improve  the  stamina  of  the  nation. 
By-the-bye,  our  village  population  is  much  aroused  ju.st 
noAV  by  the  visit  from  the  rate  collector.  The  poor  man  is 
having  a  very  lively  time  of  it.  The  Avorking  man  and  small 
occupier  generally  leave  the  exchequer  business  in  the 
hands  of  the,  Avife,"  and  she  it  is  Avho  receives  and  pays  out 
all  demands.*  Noav,  these  Avomen  find  it  hard  to  understand 
Avhy  they,  Avho,  in  their  time  have  paid  for  their  children’s 
schooling,  and  this  Avhen  Avages  Avere  considerably  smaller 
than  at  present,  should  be  called  upon  to  contribute  to  the 
Education  rate.  They  have  been  quite  willing  in  the  past 
that  the  burden  should  fall  upon  the  landoAvners  and 
farmers,  but  they  are  noAv  most  averse  to  taking  their 
share.  Truly,  it  has  been  a  heavy  call  this  time,  and  Ave  are 
told  that  the  next  rate  Avill  be  heavier  still!  And  in  the 
face  of  all  this  our  children  are  learning  nothing  that  will 
fit  them  in  the  least  for  their  struggle  in  life’s  battle,  if 
that  battle  is  to  be  fought  on  the  Avide  plains  and  sunny 
uplands  of  rural  England, 
Stay  a  moment !  Yes,  Ave  read  in  a  local  paper  this  Aveek 
that  in  our  district  (avc  have  over  300  schools)  there  Avill  be 
classes  opened  during  the  summer  holidays  for  a  limited 
