July  16,  1903. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
45 
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THURSDAY,  JULY  16.  1903. 
Garden  Visiting. 
^  T  is  tbe  desire  of  the  majority  of 
people  when  they  take  a  holiday 
to  strike  new  ground  and  see 
fresh  scenes  that  present  a 
change  from  the  things  with 
which  they  are  brought  into  daily 
contact ;  but  the  average  gardener 
differs  from  the  rest  of  his  fellow  men 
in  this  respect.  In  short,  he  is  a 
“  shoppy  ”  animal,  and  the  one  great  theme  of 
his  life  is  a  garden.  If  two  gardeners  meet 
they  talk  shop,  if  a  hundred  are  congregated 
together  they  split  up  into  little  groups  and  do 
the  same  thing,  no  matter  what  the  particular 
occasion  may  be.  It  is  no  good  blaming  them, 
for  it  is  a  trait  of  the  craft,  though  somewhat 
tedious  to  the  gardeners’  wives  if  the  ladies 
happen  to  be  present.  Perhaps  this  is  why 
gardeners’  wives  do  not  accompany  their  hus¬ 
bands  on  holiday  excursions  so  much  as  the 
better  halves  of  men  engaged  in  other  occu¬ 
pations. 
As  an  illustration  of  the  gardeners’  propensity 
for  talking  shop,  I  recently  accompanied  a 
brother  craftsman  in  looking  over  a  factory 
containing  some  very  intricate  and  interesting 
machinery.  Our  guide  spared  no  trouble  in 
explaining  the  mechanism  of  the  machines, 
and  while  engrossed  in  the  examination  of 
them  I  did  not  observe  that  my  friend  was 
missing.  However,  we  found  him  a  few 
minutes  later  discussing  the  merits  and  con¬ 
ditions  of  a  miserable  looking  Geranium  that 
was  growing  in  a  pot  in  one  of  the  factory 
windows,  along  with  one  of  the  workmen.  He 
apologised,  of  course,  hut  I  believe  all  along 
that  he  was  thinking  more  about  that  plant 
than  of  the  machinery  we  had  come  purposely 
to  see. 
To  mauy  gardeners  a  holiday  necessarily 
means  a  round  of  visits  amongst  professional 
friends  and  acquaintances,  and  a  series  of 
CATA  LOGUR.  containing  50  large  pages,  with  100 
Illustrations,  with  Iliuts  on  Horticulture,  post  free. 
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No  1203.— VOL.  XLVIL,  THIRD  Skries. 
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