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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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he long run laud him in abetter position than mpre adherence to rule-of-thumb practice. JV, T. Thiselton-Dyer, Kew.(The proceedings at the first annual meeting ofthe Guild, as well as of all subsequent meetings,were reported in the Press. Ed.) south, south-west, west, and even ea5t; andfurther on he states that the borders were hard,and faced southwards ! M jst of us would supposethe border of an east wall to slope eastwards, andthat of a west one to slope westwards. Now asouth-west border, getting the rainfall from thewettest quarter, wouldreceive enough of the naturalrainfall, not to speak of snow, to satisfy the needsof the Peach or any other trees planted on thataspect, excepting the soil were light, shallow, orvery porous, when water might be demandedearly in the spring and at intervals during thesummer. Much would depend on the locality,the aspect of the garden, the part of the country,whether souti, east, west, or north, which arematters that I touched upon briefly, which every
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Tig. 154.—VIEW of mes.srs. ceipps acbes and other plants exhibited at the temple show and awarded the veitchian gold cup FOR the most generally INTERESTING EXHIBIT. (Sef ante, p. 3.30.) ■with one establishment to arrogate to themselves-the task of taking charge of the interests of thegardening profession at large. I am quite sure thatKew men would resent it if the attempt weremade by those connected with one of the largeiiorticultural firms. In my opinion it is peculiarlyimproper in the case of a Government establish-ment. Persons in Government employ have toaerve under Ministers who liold widely differingpolitical opinions. The recognised discipline of■the service precludes its members from engaginglin active political movements, or from airingtheir political sympathies. The proposed actionwould be embarrassing to the branch of the<T0vernment responsible for the administration ofKew, and would, I think, provoke hostility to it•elsewhere. It would also, I think, be injuriou

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