June  9,  1904. 
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elation  will  endeavour  to  get  employers  to  adopt  the  following 
arrangement : — 
Summer  period  (nine  months),  5(5  hours  per  week  (maximum). 
Five  days  of  ten  hours,  G  to  5.80,  with  IJ  hours  tor  meals,  and 
one  day  of  six  hours. 
Winter  period  (three  months),  forty-eight  hours  per  week 
(maximum). 
All  other  time  worked,  including  night  and  Sunday  duty,  to 
be  counted  as  overtime  and  paid  for. 
Gardener  Apprentices. 
The  association  will  take  steps  to  control  the  intake  of  gar¬ 
deners  by  refusing  to  recognise  as  suitable  training  for  a  youth 
employment  in  some  menial  po.sition,  or  in  a  place  where  there 
is  no  gardening  worthy  of  the  name.  It  will  rely  upon  the 
vigilance  of  its  members  to  keep  out  young  men  wdio  may  be 
otherwise  worthy,  but  who  cannot  honestly  be  called  gardeners. 
The  requisite  five  years’  training  must  be  in  gardens  of  repute. 
The  association  will  keep  a  registry  of  gardens,  nurseries,  and 
other  establishments,  training  in  which  would  constitute  a  claim 
to  membership,  in  the  belief  that  both  parents  and  employers 
w'ill  find  it  advantageous  to  consult  the  association  where 
apprentices  are  concerned. 
Foreign  Gardeners. 
Foreign  gardeners,  whether  temporarily  or  permanently 
employed  in  this  country,  will  be  eligible  for  membership,  pro¬ 
vided  they  are  qualified,  and  agree  to  abide  by  the  rules  of  the 
as.sociation. 
Particulars  as  to  the  secretary,  address  of  central  office,  Ac., 
will  be  published  in  the  gardening  papers  as  soon  as  possible. 
Meanwhile  all  communications,  donations,  Ac.,  may  be  addressed 
to  Mr.  W.  Watson,  Kew  Koad,  Kew,  Surrey. 
Sums  of  £10  and  £20  respectively  were  offered  at  the  meeting 
by  way  of  forming  a  fund,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  every  gar¬ 
dener  (as  well  as  those  who  have  the  gardeners’  interest  at  heart) 
will  subscribe  to  it.  The  members  of  what  was  the  provisional 
committee  each  became  members  of  the  executive  council,  while 
the  following  gentlemen  were  added  : — Mr.  T.  H.  Candler,  The 
Gardens,  Warley  Place ;  Mr.  W.  Brooks,  Blackdown  House, 
Haslemere ;  Mr.  J.  W.  Miles.  Mandeville  House,  Isleworth ;  Mr. 
W.  Newbury,  Gorhambury,  St.  Albans;  Mr.  W.  Taylor,  Tewkes¬ 
bury  Lodge,  Forest  Hill ;  Mr.  W.  E.  Close,  Fulham ;  Mr.  T. 
Winter,  St.  John’s  Wood ;  Mr.  W.  Hales,  Physic  Gardens, 
Chelsea;  Mr.  W.  Isbell,  Low  and  Co.;  Mr.  E.  Cadman.  T.  S. 
Ware,  Ltd.,  Feltham ;  Mr.  Bean  and  Mr.  Stocks,  both  of  Kew; 
Mr.  R.  B.  Leach,  Woodhill  Gardens,  Dulwich;  Mr.  R.  J.  Frod- 
brooke.  Superintendent,  Leyton  District  Council ;  Mr.  AV.  P. 
AVright,  editor  of  “  The  Gardener,”  Mr.  H.  J.  Cut- 
bush,  nurseryman,  Highgate  ;  Mr.  J.  Lawson,  Horticul¬ 
tural  College,  Swanley ;  and  Mr.  J.  H.  AA’itty,  Superin¬ 
tendent  Highgate  Cemetery. 
Francis  B.  Haj'es  has  white  flowers,  with  black  spots  on  the 
upper  surface. 
Gloriosum  furnishes  a  large,  bold  flower,  blirsh-white. 
John  AValter  is  another  well  known  member,  with  rich 
bright  crimson  trusses;  neat,  robust,  and  free-flowering. 
John  AVaterer  is  an  intense  glowing  carmine  Rhododendron, 
with  large  trusses  of  good  form,  these  being  abundantly  borne. 
Lady  Eleanor  Cathcart  is  truly  one  of  the  most  charming 
of  any.  It  does  well  as  a  standard,  flowers  freely,  the  blosson.s 
being  bright  clear  rose,  with  crimson  spots. 
Madame  Carvalho  supplies  a  fine  clear  white  (a  fine  shade) 
marked  with  greenish  spots.  It,  too,  is  a  favourite. 
Minnie  is  a  sweet  blush-white,  with  a  very  large  blotch  of 
orange  spots  ;  very  fine. 
Mrs.  E.  C.  Stirling  may  not  have  been  specially  noted  before, 
but  it  deserves  to  be,  for  it  is  one  of  the  finest  varieties  in 
existence. 
Mrs.  Holford  is  a  handsome  salmon-crimson  variety,  of  fine 
form  and  habit — one  of  the  best. 
Airs.  Tom  Agnev’  could  not  remain  unknown,  and  it  is  a 
worthy  memorial.  The  flowers  are  pure  white,  with  lemon 
blotch,  and  they  are  large.  It  ought  to  be  in  every  collection. 
Airs.  ATm.  Agnew  is  also  charming — pale  ro.se,  brighter  at 
the  edge,  and  has  a  yellou'  centre. 
Alum  furnishes  a  most  beautiful  large-flowered  white,  witli 
lemon  eye. 
Pink  Pearl  at  the  present  moment  happily  needs  no  praise 
or  description.  It  is  unique. 
Princess  Hortense  is  really  magnificent,  with  lilac-rose 
trusses ;  and  it  is  said  to  be  a  free  grower. 
Sappho  is  over  twenty  years  old,  yet  is  ever  new.  For  effec¬ 
tiveness  no  variety  excels  it.  The  well-formed  trusses  are 
w’hite,  with  a  black'  blotch  on  the  upper  surface. 
Strategist  may  conclude  the  list.  It  is  a  delicate  pink,  very 
distinct  and  very  beautiful. 
Canon  Ellacombe’s  Garden.' 
Probably  every  close  reader  of  the  Journal  of  Horticulfure 
has  seen  or  heard  sufficient  of  Canon  Ellacomhe’s  “  garden  of 
delights  ”  (as  Dr.  Alasters  has  termed  it)  at  Bitten,  12  miles 
from  Bristol,  to  cause  him  or  her  to  wish  to  know  more.  And  I 
am  hardly  qualified  to  describe  it  very  fully  or  well.  A  week  ago 
I  was  in  Bristol  for  a  holiday,  but  being  born  and  reared  in  a 
garden,  the  weakness  to  see  other  gardens,  that  attaches  to 
those  of  my  ilk,  has  a  measured  impress  on  me.  Taking  the 
train  from  Bristol  to  Bitton,  the  traveller  has  a  niile  to  walk 
ere  reaching  the  village  ;  and,  turning  off  the  main  road  by  a 
Gadding  and  Gatbering. 
,  Messrs.  J.  Waterer’s  Rhododendrons. 
The  varieties  of  the  hardy  and  half-hardy  Rhodo¬ 
dendrons  that  flower  during  late  spring  and  early  sum¬ 
mer  have  no  equals,  and  this  fact  is  annually 
re-impressed  upon  one’s  mind  at  each  visit  to  the 
beautiful  special  exhibit  made  by  Alessrs.  John  AVaterer 
and  Son,  of  the  American  Nurseries,  Bagshot,  Surrey, 
in  the  gardens  of  the  Royal  Botanic  Society  at 
Regent’s  Park,  London.  Vve  ought  to  have  included 
this  exhibit  with  the  others  named  and  described  in 
the  report  of  the  society’s  great  exhibition  held  there 
during  this  week,  but  it  is  altogether  too  magnificent 
and  large  to  come  into  a  general  report.  Those  who 
have  seen  former  similar  displays,  covering  almost  an 
acre  of  variedly  disposed  ground,  and  covered  by  canvas, 
will  under.stand  the  measure  of  praise  we  bestow,  and 
those  who  have  not  must  take  our  recommendations 
on  trust.  AA'’e  feel  they  will  not  be  misled.  The  colours 
of  the  blossoms  are  considerably  different  under  canvas 
than  they  are  in  the  open  air,  as  some  choosers  of 
varieties  have  discovered,  to  their  displeasure  it  may  be, 
but  our  descriptions  are  from  flowers  as  seen  in  the 
open. 
Baroness  Henry  Schroder,  white  and  finely  spotted, 
large  truss;  very  effective. 
Concessum  has  a  light  centre,  margined  with  the  brightest 
rose  ;  a  great  favourite. 
Delicatissimum  is  another  popular  kind,  being  clear  white, 
delicately  tinted  pink. 
Duchess  of  Connaught  is  also  white,  with  lemon-coloured 
markings,  and  has  a  large  truss. 
Everestianum  is  rosy-lilac,  a  distinctive  variety,  with  very 
large  trusses,  abundantly  borne,  and  has  fine  foliage. 
Specimen  of  Messrs.  Webb’s  Calceolarias.  (See  page  494.) 
with 
narrow  incline,  the  ancient  lichen-covered  church  tower  appears 
in  front,  with  the  peaceful  burial-ground  around  it.  The 
vicarage  and  its  modest  garden  ai’e  upon  the  left,  and  the 
infant’s  voices  from  the  parish  school  reiterate  the  elementary 
truth  that  “  Y-e-s  ”  is  “  A'es.” 
Canon  Ellacombe  kindly  greeted  me,  and  we  were  soon  dis¬ 
cussing  the  numberless  rarities.  Not  that  rarities  are  usually 
lovelier  than  the  things  of  everyday  acquaintance ;  though  who 
will  say  that  Ribes  speciosum,  with  its  coral-crimson  tubular 
blooms  all  hanging  like  pendants  on  a  sunshade,  is  not  of  classi- 
