October  16,  1902. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
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BARRS'.ZDAFFODILS 
Have  received  Twelve  Highest  Awards,  1902,  including 
ZKEEI 
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60  Tulips,  single  early 
50  ,,  double 
25  ,,  single  late 
20  Narcissus  Polyanthus  . 
30  , ,  Incemparable 
24  „  Poeticus 
24  Anemones,  double 
50  ,,  single 
36  Gladiolus  Nanus 
100  French  Ranunculus 
50  Snowdrops,  single 
75  Spanish  Iris 
18  Scilla  Sibirica  (Prsecox) 
4  Lilium  Umbellatum 
50  Eranthis  Hvemalis 
(Winter  Aconite) 
24  Ixias,  best  mixed 
24  Triteleia  uniflora 
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Chester. 
Commodities  and  Luxuries. 
anyone  takes  the  trouble  to 
dissect  the  various  branches  of 
horticulture,  it  will  be  seen 
that  its  make-up  is  composed 
very  largely  of  what  may  be 
called  commodities  and  luxuries. 
We  may  begin  with  those  who 
pursue  the  gentle’art ;  some  do  it  for 
pleasure  pure  and  simple,  and  others 
for  profit  and  a  means  of  livelihood.  Our 
private  gardener,  for  instance,  is  a  luxury  in 
the  eyes  of  his  employer.  To  supply  the 
actual  worldly  needs  of  the  latter  he  is  not 
essentia],  and  his  business  is  to  provide  those 
extra  comforts  and  luxuries  which  wealth  can 
purchase.  Yet  I  question  whether  gardeners 
are  disposed  to  look  at  the  matter  in  this 
light.  As  a  class,  they  claim  to  be  underpaid 
in  comparison  to  other  occupations  not 
requiring  the  same  [knowledge  and  training, 
and  perhaps  rightly  so.  Again,  they  work 
under  many  disadvantages,  and  are  fre¬ 
quently  expected  to  make  bricks  without 
straw,  like  the  Israelites  of  old,  and  their 
privileges  are  privileges  rather  than  rights. 
This  is  all  true  enough,  and  from  the  gar¬ 
dener’s  point  of  view  it  is  not  easy  to 
understand ;  but  it  should  not  be  forgotten 
that  the  man  is  a  luxury.  He  plays  but  an 
unimportant  pait  in  the  great  concern  of 
supply  and  demand  or  capital  and  labour, 
and  if  superfluous  wealth  were  suddenly  cut 
off,  his  occupation  would  be  gone.  The  same 
may  be  said  of  other  occupations,  because  if 
men  generally  were  only  possessed  of  suffi¬ 
cient  wealth  to  provide  for  the  actual  needs 
of  life,  trade  would  at  once  be  at  a  standstill; 
but  the  private  gardener  is  attached  to  the 
person  of  his  employer,  and  contributes  to  his 
personal  luxuries,  which  could  be  dispensed 
with}  if  circumstances  demanded  it,  and  the 
latter}  pays  him  as  much  as  he  can  afford, 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,” 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  othsi 
address. 
