. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. dener can fritter away so much time-often to the neglect of less pleasant work. Thus itsometimes happens that in small establishments,where only a man-of-all-work is kept, Pelargoniumsmay be met with in abundance, while the cook is at herwits end to find materials for the proper furnishingforth of the dinner which is replaced by them on thetable. Some other old-fashioned habits in the arrange-ments of the dinner-table must have had their sharein stimulating gardeners to do their best with otherthings
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. dener can fritter away so much time-often to the neglect of less pleasant work. Thus itsometimes happens that in small establishments,where only a man-of-all-work is kept, Pelargoniumsmay be met with in abundance, while the cook is at herwits end to find materials for the proper furnishingforth of the dinner which is replaced by them on thetable. Some other old-fashioned habits in the arrange-ments of the dinner-table must have had their sharein stimulating gardeners to do their best with otherthings than fruit and flowers. I remember a gardenerof ours, who took pride in his Cucumbers, told one ofthe young gentlemen of the house, that he likedto fancy the master taking up the Cucumber andadmiring its size and shape before proceeding to cutit. Poor man ! he did not realise that the cook alonewould see it in its beauty, and that it would onlyreach the table in slices, drowned in vinegar andpepper, when its flavour would be as dependent onthe skill of the cook as on that of the Fig. iu.—van thol tulip, starved. Whether horticultural shows supply the place ofthe old-fashioned dinner-table in displaying thegardeners skill in growing vegetables, is they do in many instances, but not often inthe particular cases to which I allude, and they areno test whatever of the gardeners care in providingeverything necessary to the cook. He may carry offprizes for Broccoli and Cucumbers, while his saladsare a failure and his herb-ground neglected ; theneglect does not appear at the show, and what does itmatter to him if the cook is obliged to buydried Mint and Thyme at the grocers to supply theplace of what he ought to have furnished ? The remedy lies in the hands of the mistress. Ifshe takes as much interest in the kitchen and kitchengarden as her great-grandmothers did, the cook andgardener will take increased interest in them too ; butif the lady thinks only
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